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...US artist Carrie Mae Weems has a message for the people of Wales. “Peidiwch â phoeni....
...And having [Harris] launch this is super-exciting and gives credence to it all. She is a real energiser,” Zwirner says....
...A 2017 paper published by Thailand’s Mae Fah Luang University found that if all the 40-plus planned dam projects on the Mekong’s mainstream and tributaries are built by 2030, the net economic impact on the...
...Leading US artist Carrie Mae Weems credits the late photographer with confounding conventions....
...The exhibition was inspired by a group of emerging artists — Ella Kruglyanskaya, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Tala Madani, Sascha Braunig, Emily Mae Smith — Deitch says in another email exchange....
...Last year, “Tod’s Band” campaign featured 15 personalities and fashion show regulars including Langley Fox Hemingway, Mae Lapres and Julia Restoin Roitfeld, while Chloé is currently popularising its bags...
...But, as Ethan Harris at Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows on Monday, nothing could be further from the truth....
...Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank, said financials were set to underperform because there would be no alleviation in regulatory scrutiny....
...Simon Rawlinson, head of strategic research at EC Harris, a property consultancy, said the government would have to ensure “widespread participation” to ensure it resulted in cheap mortgage deals....
...On Monday, S&P will announce the result of its ratings review on entities linked to the US government, such as housing finance agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...They realise that the model failed,” says Brian Harris, a senior vice-president at Moody’s....
...“Given Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s importance to the US mortgage market, we believe there is a very high level of support for their debt from the US Treasury,” said Brian Harris, a Moody’s Senior Vice...
...Real estate brokers say that sales have come to a near standstill since the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in early September....
...Deals to buy United Rentals, Alliance Data Systems and Sallie Mae, among others, collapsed, while the takeover of Clear Channel – after a rash of lawsuits – is progressing....
...Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank, said: “US equities need a catalyst, like tightening credit spreads, lower crude oil prices or a stronger dollar, to move higher.”...
...“We believe Mr Bernanke is comfortable keeping rates on hold for now,” said Ethan Harris, chief US economist at Lehman Brothers....
...Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank, says: “They should bring the uptick rule back and not make a new rule for a select group of stocks. “It is anti-free markets....
...Prof Kyle says Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “probably each need about $100bn they don’t have”....
...Meanwhile, government-sponsored mortgage agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have limited ability to step in as the buyers of last resort....
...A broader index of financial companies rose with Sallie Mae leading the way, up 7 per cent at $17.83....
...Ethan Harris, an economist at Lehman Brothers, said: “There needs to be rationalisation – more centralisation – of how mortgage lending is regulated.”...
...“The breadth of this year’s rally in tech has been narrow, only 25 per cent of tech companies have outperformed the index,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment strategist at Harris Private Bank....
...Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank, said: “History has shown that volatility spikes are more consistent with market bottoms than market tops.”...
...But Tim Harris, strategist at JPMorgan Private Bank, warned that risky asset classes were not out of the woods yet....
...Analysts at CreditSights said in the wake of the recently agreed “landmark” buy-out of Sallie Mae, the student lender, that Countrywide loomed as a “crown jewel type target . . . using the Sallie Mae strategy...
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