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...The first two charts below are from OKCupid....
...Don’t people buying a middle-range house usually have a smaller one to sell? And isn’t mortgage availability for first-time buyers still extremely bad?...
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...We think Airbus would be best-positioned to benefit from a V-shaped recovery in 2021....
...First a technical point: stock-based comp has never *really* been free. Its underlying cost just appears in a different place....
...The Covid-19 vaccine(s) will prove a shot in the arm for both the UK economy and its peers....
...The regulatory approval represents an important milestone in the process, announced last year, to launch a cash tender offer for Delta’s acquisition for up to 49 percent of Grupo Aeromexico S.A.B. de C.V...
...This week Sony announced that the PS4’s success had helped the company to its first full-year net profit in three years....
...But effects on U.K. only marginally positive — and the fiscal expansion may not happen....
...The S&P 500 companies as a whole have spent more than $6 trillion on such payments between 2005 and 2014, bolstering share prices and the markets even as they were cutting jobs and investment....
...(Bloomberg) GM “must turn over documents related to its subprime auto-lending under a subpoena issued by the U.S....
...Markets: Asia-Pacific equities were on a downward path after a sell-off on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 notched its sharpest fall in nearly a month....
...: Capitalism thrives by looking past the bottom line (Financial Times) US mortgage lenders face shake out amid losses (Financial Times, Alloway) 40% of U.S. private-equity deals this year have used leverage...
...(Financial Times) S&P may face securities fraud charges for ratings given to six commercial mortgage-backed securities issued in 2011, the credit rating company said....
...(Financial Times) “U.S. authorities are pushing BNP Paribas to pay more than $10 billion to end a criminal probe into allegations the bank evaded U.S. sanctions, according to people familiar with the negotiations...
...(Financial Times) China labels iPhone a security threat: China’s influential state broadcaster on Friday called a location-tracking function offered by Apple Inc.’s iPhone a “national security concern,”...
...(Details here) Markets: Asia-Pacific bourses were on the ascent after a dovish outlook from the Federal Reserve propelled the S&P 500 to a fresh record high, jumping 0.8 per cent to 1,956.98....
...The order is aimed at operations in one of the U.S.’s booming oil fields, the Bakken Shale in North Dakota, where production has far outpaced the availability of pipelines to move crude to refineries....
...Inside Mortgage Finance.”...
...(Financial Times) “Citigroup boosted Chief Executive Michael Corbat’s pay by an estimated 23% for 2013, his first full year at the helm of the nation’s third-largest U.S. bank by assets. Mr....
...(Financial Times) “Bank of America said it does not owe the U.S. government the $2.1 billion it is seeking in penalties after a jury found the bank liable for fraud over defective mortgages sold by its...
...under the U.S....
...The buyback plan is Northfield, Illinois-based Kraft Foods’ first since it became an independent company in October 2012. ” (Bloomberg) “AT&T, the biggest U.S. phone company, said on Tuesday that it would...
...which would force the vehicles to quickly reduce their holdings of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and set off a wider fire sale....
...(Reuters) “A federal court in New York has ordered MF Global Inc. to pay $1.2 billion in restitution to the failed brokerage firm’s customers, the U.S....
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