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...Barclays, BNP Paribas and Morgan Stanley are shepherding the deal through the market, while Canadian ratings agency DBRS has provisionally awarded the top tranche of the proposed ArtFi deal a pristine AAA...
...In November, The Staples Center in Los Angeles which AEG owns and operates was renamed the Crypto.com Arena....
...The message from the V-A-C Foundation, which runs the recently opened and vast GES-2 House of Culture museum in Moscow, is more muted....
...It is a field that has dwindling supply and demand, but there is every name a collector would want: Monet, Degas and Renoir feature, plus three works by Vincent van Gogh....
...Two major Mexican collectors are the billionaire Corona beer heiress María Asunción Aramburuzabala, one of Artnet’s top 200 collectors, and fruit juice heir Eugenio López, whose Jumex museum opened in 2013...
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...The award-winning scheme’s low-rise blocks line landscaped streets near the Emirates Arena and the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome....
...Mr Heddle said the most valuable stamp held in Singapore at the moment was a King George V “IR” sixpence stamp, valued at about £500,000....
...These loans can help investors extract liquidity from their art assets, says John Arena, a senior vice-president and credit executive at US Trust....
...Yet while packed arenas no longer thrill to Jones’s guitar solos, his songs are enjoying a healthy afterlife....
...But in 2012, as growth in developed economies continued to stagnate and real yields on some AAA sovereign debt turned negative, investors started looking further afield....
...December follows the parliamentary one in April – and, as the economy stutters, politicians are promising “economic democratisation” that would weaken the dominance of the chaebol in the country’s business arena...
...The trip starts on January 3 2013 in Punta Arenas, Chile, and ends in Rio de Janeiro in late February....
...“I think you have some people in it purely for a collector mentality.”...
...In case you still can’t believe it — we present page 180 of the prospectus for Madrid Activos Corporativos V, FTA: Full document (in Spanish) in the usual place....
...events is this case is quantitatively similar across country-sub-sample; iv) the reaction of CDS spreads to negative rating events has increased after the 15th of September 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy; v)...
...Digital releases, the argument runs, will compromise not only the joys of collecting but the livelihood of the many independent comics stores that remain both a social hub for collectors and fans and an...
...Italy V Ireland....
...For one week, the Grand Palais becomes a honey pot of glorious antiques, art (with a 1950s cut-off date) and decorative oeuvres that draw wealthy, erudite collectors from around the world....
...The rating action prior to that was taken on 30 June 2010, when the rating agency placed Spain’s Aaa ratings on review for possible downgrade....
...Viral V. Acharya teaches at the Stern School of Business at New York University and is co-editor of forthcoming book “Regulating Wall Street”....
...Class C notes: ‘BBB+’ Themeleion IV Mortgage Finance Plc EUR1,005.8m Class A notes: ‘AAA’ EUR155.5m Class B notes: ‘A’ EUR46.6m Class C notes: ‘BBB’ Themeleion V Mortgage Finance Plc EUR764,3m Class A notes...
...Governments everywhere in the democratic world – and even, to a limited degree, in authoritarian countries such as China – have put more and more information in the public arena....
...If you total up auction sales in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore and Japan over the past year, the figure outstrips the US for the first time – €130m v €123m....
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