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...In the US, at least, mom-and-pop investors and advisers build portfolios with the categories used by Morningstar et al....
...Nick Kounis, Head Macro and Financial Markets Research, ABN Amro The eurozone economy could benefit from fiscal stimulus both cyclically and structurally....
...comparable to one that was spread over two years when Royal Bank of Scotland bought ABN Amro units before the credit crunch....
...This suggests that ABN Amro’s share price would be about €21.95. The RBS offer for ABN Amro is roughly €38 a share – equivalent to a premium of more than 70 per cent....
...Reuters, the news and financial information group, fell 1.7 per cent to 596p as ABN Amro urged its clients to sell....
...And even before the credit crisis, Barclays strengthened its bidding power for ABN Amro by raising €3.6bn from China Development Bank and Singapore’s Temasek, in return for stakes of 3.1 and 2.1 per cent...
...Unlike the business of actually making things — which moved to China et al years ago, flattening global economics — the world of high finance, we were told, remained notably curvaceous....
...On FT Alphaville this morning, - Another twist in the ABN Amro takeover. And this time it’s RBS et al on the back foot....
...- Having been left waiting at reception on Monday as ABN Amro and Barclays got cosy, the rival bidding consortium comprising Royal Bank of Scotland, Fortis and Santander, have accepted a meeting with ABN...
...ABN Amro, which turned sellers on RBS in May, agreed. “Another round of earnings downgrades in six months time is entirely possible,” said ABN analyst Ian Smillie....
...ICI, the chemicals group, was up 1.7 per cent at 241.25p after it was named by ABN Amro as a potential bid target from a private equity house....
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