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...As it became clear that deal was never going to happen, however, he was reduced to begging H2O to help bail out Sapinda....
...Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of Binance’s biggest rival FTX, went to Zhao in November last year hoping the Binance chief would bail out his own exchange. Zhao declined, sealing FTX’s fate....
...Market signals, such as the interest rates payable on sovereign bonds, are noisy and volatile....
...The triple A government bond is dead. Long live the double A bond....
...on Monday when a Delaware court dismissed Cooper’s appeal.”...
...Apollo wants to cut the price it is paying for Cooper because of thorny labour relations issues in the US and in China....
...Bart Chilton, one of the CFTC’s five commissioners, said it was a “bellwether” case for the agency....
...Ireland plans to issue longer term debt later this year as part of a plan to re-enter international bond markets and exit its international bail out programme by the end of 2013....
...It also had to bail out Dexia, a struggling lender, at the week-end, adding further strain to its balance sheet....
...The spread between the two bond yields – a key measure of perceived risk – has widened from just 0.4 per cent then to up to 2.4 per cent in recent weeks....
...Yields on its bonds have risen in recent weeks, to 5.9 per cent on Friday. Bail-outs in Greece and Portugal were triggered when rates reached 7 per cent....
...Bart van Ark, The Conference Board: I’m not so sure the supply of credit is the problem, right now....
...(The 2014 Greek bond and 2006 Argentine bond are both five-year issues.)...
...budget deficit targets of its 2008 IMF/EU bail-out....
...But with property currently at an all-time high against real bond yields, it is worth buying while interest rates remain low....
...“The 3-year is probably the one that is most likely to perform best,” said Christian Cooper, interest rate strategist at RBC Capital Markets....
...“Money is flowing to Treasuries not necessarily on risk aversion, but because bond investors are simply searching for yield,” says Christian Cooper, interest-rate strategist at RBC Capital Markets....
...It sounded the bell for a tougher approach that was given renewed emphasis when President Barack Obama on Thursday travelled to The Cooper Union, a university less than two miles from Wall Street, to argue...
...Here are briefing notes on all the categories, with comments from Joanna Seddon, chief executive of Millward Brown Optimor, Peter Walshe, MBO’s global BrandZ director, Nick Cooper, senior vice-president...
...The UAE’s central bank said last Sunday it would underwrite $10bn of a $20bn bond issuance by Dubai, initially causing jubilation among bond and equity investors in the statelet....
...When Washington passed out hundreds of billions in bail-out funds in September 2008, it said it could worry about the cause of the meltdown later....
...It will also set out the mechanism it will use to buy the bonds in the secondary market, possibly via a reverse auction system to gauge price and demand....
...Mr Fuld, a former bond trader known to associates as “the gorilla”, was the embodiment of this culture....
...Some worry that Dubai could wind up in such trouble that neighbouring Abu Dhabi, the richest of the city states making up the United Arab Emirates, might have to bail it out....
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