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...Folwell, the North Carolina treasurer, has said his office has taken over proxy voting from BlackRock for its funds with the firm, and New York City already voted its own shares....
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...Patrick McHenry, a Republican congressman from North Carolina and close McCarthy ally, has been designated “Speaker pro tempore” to lead the chamber in the absence of an elected Speaker....
...If you owned rate-sensitive, high-risk stocks yesterday you have Unhedged’s permission to sell and take the rest of the year off (Carvana, Zillow, SoFi, et al rose 10 per cent or more)....
...Glick, formerly chief commercial officer of the parent group of Manchester City and ex-president of business operations at the US National Football League’s Carolina Panthers, is responsible for increasing...
...(FT) Riskiest borrowers make up largest share of junk bond deals The riskiest borrowers in corporate America made up the largest share of junk-bond sales since 2007, an analysis of Refinitiv data shows,...
...Mr Trump, meanwhile, on Wednesday suggested voters in North Carolina should stress-test the security of their elections systems by voting twice — an act that is illegal under US law....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which includes the cities of Cologne, Bonn and Düsseldorf, has quarantined some 1,000 people....
...is really a vote of no confidence from the bond market in the idea of a V shaped economic recovery....
...(FT, Quartz) North Carolina election rerun President Donald Trump is betting that his political brand will help Republicans keep hold of a North Carolina US House seat in a special election on Tuesday....
...They argue that it makes little sense to ban a non-strategic company such as Rusal while leaving Sberbank, VTB and Gazprom et al still tradeable in the US....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...The first employer-sponsored pension plan in Canada was introduced in 1874 (Gale et al., 2006). By contrast, some countries have only recently introduced private pension plans....
...at the University of North Carolina....
...“Crystallex is the camel’s nose under the tent,” says Mark Weidemaier, a law professor at the University of North Carolina....
...Al-Rumayyan was grilled on Tuesday about the big elephant in the room, which is the planned IPO of state energy giant Saudi Aramco, whose proceeds will be ploughed into PIF....
...Firestone et al think the introduction of bonds that can be converted to equity when things go bad and the Orderly Liquidation Authority should reduce the frequency of the worst crises as well, but that...
...[3] The current version of the Antolin Diaz et al empirical model is estimated to explain about 50 per cent of the variation in US real equity returns over 3-year periods ahead....
...Indeed, it is hard now to sell a single EM beta story for big, liquid EM credits such as Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Russia and South Africa, et al, and even across regions....
...He beat Hillary Clinton in battleground states such as Florida, North Carolina and Ohio, as what appears to be a coalition of disaffected blue-collar white and working-class voters acted on their anger at...
...And to set the scene… look at the absolute state of the corporate bond market right now....
...Kuroda et al might want to look away: That’s the yen being “whacked to the lowest since October 2014″ (when the BoJ decided to extend its easing programme) in the words of Citi’s FX team....
...From the latest BIS quarterly review, in particular its bit on dollar credit to EMs (our emphasis): [Fed largesse]… drove a surge in issuance by both long-standing issuers and new ones (Mizen et al (2012...
...Nicely depicted by Gallo and team as follows: We’ve explained this before, but as Gallo et al sum up, during the boom years oil-exporting countries found themselves needing to invest around $700-800bn a...
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