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...Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music by Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards (Knopf) “Music is about listening,” celebrated jazzman Threadgill states in his memoir....
...What fictional establishment is the setting for 64 books by Elinor Brent-Dyer? Eleanora Fagan was the real name of which jazz and blues singer, born in Philadelphia in 1915?...
...Mr Read and Mr Goodman each face a second count of conspiring with Brent Davies, another ICAP employee, and Mr Hayes, who by then had moved on to Citigroup, from December 2009 until September 2010....
...Besides Hayes and other UBS employees, the various co-conspirators named in the indictment include Brent Davies, then an ICAP employee, Paul Robson of Rabobank and Luke Madden of HSBC. ...
...The Rain Man moniker was given to him by Brent Davies, a former trader at Royal Bank of Scotland, he said, “basically because I was different”. “I didn’t get a lot of jokes,” he said....
...Mr Hayes was sentenced to 14 years in jail, in a major victory for the UK's Serious Fraud Office, which had risked its reputation in pursuing the case....
...She is leaving B&M, another value shopkeeper, to replace Richard Hayes, who is retiring....
...Convicted Libor rigger Tom Hayes is expected to appeal against the judge’s verdict and his 14-year sentence today....
...Today it is 5 per cent $36.69 Price of a barrel of Brent crude on December 30, down from $55.60 a year earlier 357bn Size of Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit this year, in Saudi riyals €86bn Size of the...
...Tom Hayes admitted he had asked colleagues at UBS as well as traders and brokers at other firms to help him rig Libor rates, but said he did not act dishonestly and that there were no rules or policies ...
...(FT) It’s a big day for Libor cases Tom Hayes will be the first trader to face prosecutionover allegations he was involved in the manipulation of the interbank lending rate used as a benchmark for financial...
...Daniel Wilkinson, a former broker at ICAP; Brent Davies, who was both at ICAP and RBS; Paul Robson, a former trader at Rabobank; Guillaume Adolph, formerly at Deutsche; and Mirhat Alykulov, who was Mr Hayes...
...employees of ICAP, Rabobank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche Bank and UBS were among 22 names that the UK Serious Fraud Office included as alleged co-conspirators on a draft indictment against Tom Hayes...
...Brent crude oil settled 83 cents higher at $109.94 a barrel, but was down $1.34 on the week....
...UK prosecutors alleged that former Libor trader Tom Hayes conspired with employees at eight banks and interdealer brokers....
...It was implicated in the Libor probe through communications between two of its yen swaps traders and Tom Hayes, a star trader at UBS and Citi....
...Brent oil rose $1.68 to settle at $103.41, having recently dipped below $97. Gold also attracted fresh buying as its recovery from last week’s two-year low of $1,321 an ounce gathered momentum....
...(Financial Times) UK prepares charges against Libor trader: “UK authorities are preparing to file criminal fraud charges against Tom Hayes, the former UBS and Citigroup trader, in connection with the global...
...(Financial Times) Transatlantic tussle over trader: The US Department of Justice and the SFO “clashed late last year in their mutual pursuit of Tom Hayes, the former UBS trader who is viewed by prosecutors...
...Industrial commodities are muddled: as copper rises 0.3 per cent to $3.75 a pound and Brent crude sheds 13 cents to $117.87 a barrel....
...But Greg Hayes, chief financial officer, told the Financial Times: “Commodity inflation is the one thing that really concerns us this year.”...
...However, Simon Hayes at Barclays Capital said the report suggested the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee was leaning towards a rate hike over the next few months....
...The first was the rise in the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil from US$54 in January 2007 to US$134 in July 2008....
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