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...The dramatic series of events would also catapult Corazon Aquino, wife of the slain senator, to the presidency....
...As part of the agreement, the investors set out a series of commitments including plans to keep the grocer’s headquarters in Bradford....
...By the end of June this year, BlackRock was managing a whopping $9.5tn in assets, a number that would be barely comprehensible to most of the 35 million Americans whose retirement funds were managed by the...
...While many of the borrowers had questionable personal credit ratings, the CWABS Asset-Backed Certificates Trust 2005-11 were deemed much safer credits....
...Buyout-backed transactions totalled $79.7bn in the first quarter, a 30 per cent rise from a year earlier....
...The CBOE Vix volatility index fell 12 per cent, closing at its lowest level since February 2007....
...Blackstone, which owns more than 200,000 hotel rooms in the US alone through its portfolio companies, is looking to unwind a series of holdings in US commercial real estate and housing assets that it has...
...But when it came to those mortgage-backed securities in early August 2007, that simple exchange suddenly became complicated....
...A year later Countrywide Financial bundled the mortgage with 10,000 others from around the country into the Countrywide Asset Backed Certificates Trust 2006-06....
...Over the past three years, corporate fixed income returned 11.9 per cent a year, according to HFR. This is the first in a monthly series on hedge fund strategies....
...According to Sol Waksman, founder of BarclayHedge, third quarter 2009 fund of funds assets were $596bn (£367bn, €414bn) down from their 2007 peak of nearly $1,200bn....
...Although corporate debt levels were high, so too were liquid assets....
...Over the past four weeks, the asset-backed commercial paper has shrunk by nearly 20 per cent and this has pushed money market rates well above their usual levels....
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