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...D and G....
...Land cannot be moved to evade taxation and the ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be significantly more than £5tn compared to a GDP of a little more than £2tn....
...The goal was very simple: eliminate 90 per cent of the agricultural land that’s used for animal husbandry, which is most of the land on the planet. That was a mission-oriented goal....
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be significantly more than £5 Trillion compared to a GDP of a little more than £2 Trillion....
...The world’s biggest company is launching a $1bn affordable housing investment fund and a $1bn mortgage-assistance fund....
...But such a land and property above land tax is collected by a stroke of the pen at the Land Registry. (ii) such a property wealth tax would lead to inefficiency in investment behaviour....
...Today Block 71 is a cluster of seven incubation buildings set on a 16,000 sq m piece of land....
...Land prices may well rise near port areas (to allow lorry parking)....
...Below are the breakdowns by Prosper Rating tranches: For AA, A and B loans, 69% on a unit basis and 83% on a dollar basis For C and D loans, 63% on a unit basis and 77% on a dollar basis For E and HR...
...In Singapore and Hong Kong, the government buys land without planning permission on the open market and subsequently auctions off this land with building permits to developers, so funding infrastructure...
...If Bank A writes protection on Greece for a client for, say, €25 million, and immediately buys protection from Bank B for the same €25 million, it will have Gross Notional exposure of €25 million and Net...
...This means an M&A wave coming from Switzerland as Swiss inc goes on a carry trade binge....
...While covered bonds are widely used as funding instruments in Europe and have a pretty spotless record on defaults, Basel III has ticked off the industry once before....
...We’ve now well and truly progressed to the question not of when but of how much in bailout loans is needed for Ireland, so… From a note on Friday, we’d point out the estimate of Barclays Capital’s Antonio...
...I’d expect bond market’s faith in the UK programme to be well maintained....
...IA; (c) should the solvency ratio of AIA Co and/or AIA-B fall below 150% it will take steps as soon as possible to restore it to at least 150% in a manner acceptable to the IA; and (d) any proposed transfer...
...Tesco will have to tap into wholesale funding markets if it wants to take its mortgage book past the £10bn initial target....
...It does make a difference.” Those at the meeting also insisted that, beyond Ireland Inc, the country’s “best calling card is its culture”....
...India’s Tata Motors has secured private funding for its Jaguar Land Rover marques, ending state aid talks with the UK government....
...Amit Kara, UBS 1) Minority government and market fear – a hung parliament will almost certainly lift the risk premia of UK inc....
...In June, for example, when Cerberus was able to orchestrate a $60bn refinancing and funding package to help ResCap, executives at the firm thought the worst was over – only to see car sales dramatically...
...Bank of America funded $85 billion in first mortgages, helping more than 382,000 people either purchase a home or refinance their existing mortgage. Approximately 25 percent were for purchases....
...Bankers and investors were stunned on Monday morning when the Treasury excluded covered bonds, a type of mortgage funding, from its guarantees and seemed to contradict itself over other secured funding....
...Bankers that were supposed to be the technocrats of the private sector were blind to mortgage fraud, ratings cock-ups and funding strategies with no Plan B....
...Am I right in understand that GMG is bidding for Emap’s B-to-B businesses? PM: We have expressed an interest in that business....
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