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...Data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shows it remained at a rate of just 1.5 per cent at the end of the third quarter....
...The company was state run before the government offloaded 26 per cent of its stake in 2002 to natural resources conglomerate Vedanta, which went on to lift its holding to nearly 65 per cent....
...I am temporarily holding this in cash, hoping to choose new investments at better prices....
...If the largest holdings are AstraZeneca, Unilever, Shell and HSBC you are effectively paying active management fees for an index tracker, and will you do better to buy the indexed tracker....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Xerox wants to give HP’s board its walking papers We’re all guilty of overusing the David v Goliath trope but in the case of Xerox and HP, it really does apply....
...“It’s pretty extraordinary that with this amount of distress you haven’t seen more failures in asset management companies.”...
...This compares with a UK General Retail sector average of 15.8x and 7.7x respectively.- In line with Next’s longstanding IR policy the company is not holding an analyst call today....
...An early paper published by the Rand Corporation is The Prediction of Social and Technological Events (1949)....
...His company, Apollo Asset Management, has snapped up 29 local TV stations and it has no intention of slowing down....
...Ann Pettifor: A decade of austerity proved an economically ruinous policy and has left the UK economy in a dire state....
...On the bright side: assets under management at Oz have stopped their freefall and are holding steady at around $32bn, while performance in its flagship master fund is up almost 1 per cent, outshining many...
...But China has been concocting a more homegrown culture through the rapid expansion of its centrally-controlled asset management companies, or AMCs, in Hong Kong....
...The Thatcher-Reagan era of deregulation and globalisation — the free movement of goods, capital, labour and services — unleashed the global corporation....
...There might be big corporation tax cuts in the event of a no-deal Brexit....
...In 2016, he won a significant case contesting a death sentence in Hurst v Florida....
...Private non-financial corporations have amassed considerable short-term assets which could be readily deployed....
...Although PLDT chairman Manuel V....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...“We are in the late stages of the credit cycle,” said Edwin Tai, a distressed debt portfolio manager at Newfleet Asset Management. “Cycles last five to seven years and we’re in the seventh year....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Ann Pettifor, director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) We at PRIME expect growth to slow by at least 0.5% next year....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...The UK is on reality the supplicant, holding very few trump cards. It is therefore increasingly obvious that whatever deal it gets will be worse than before, for goods but also for services....
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