Hints and tips:
...Cullen/Frost Bankers and First Republic did not report a figure so we have presented the most recent figure they filed with the FDIC....
...You can’t chuck anything down a hill and expect people to chase it....
...Ciaran Clifford’s tin whistle skirls and the strings brood as ominously as every anti-hero from Dracula to Edward Cullen....
...The four biggest US banks, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citibank and Wells Fargo all fell between 12 and 16 per cent, destroying some $120bn of market value....
...Given it is the fourth quarter there is maybe an attempt to chase things higher,” says Mr Carr....
...The FDIC facilitated the sale of WaMu to JPMorgan Chase and the sale of Wachovia to Citigroup in the past week – without hurting its already strained deposit insurance fund....
...Iceland and New Zealand have been big beneficiaries of the global carry trade in which a plethora of investors from US hedge funds to Japanese retail investors borrowed in cheap dollars, euros and yen to chase...
...Mr Cullen said....
...Wine professionals may admire the confident balance of fine Cabernets and Bordeaux blends from Margaret River in Western Australia such as Cullens and Moss Wood, the obviously terroir-dominated character...
...The NZ dollar’s rally came despite finance minister Michael Cullen saying he was “not entirely compfortable” with kiwi strength....
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