Hints and tips:
...Meanwhile, Dutch pension giant ABP said it would dump €15bn in fossil fuel holdings....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Funds may have sold out of Valeant, Apple et al before the rot set in....
...Maybe we will discover that many managers were smart enough to sell out of Apple, Valeant, Williams et al before their shares tanked....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...- Why the Acme Brick Company et al are Berkshire’s secret weapons....
...- Five hits from Scott Sumner, on the eurozone, FOMC, et al....
...Outside the EU, Russia, Turkey et al. are also vulnerable to “optimisation of risk-weighted assets,” to use the euphemism plastered all over eurozone banks’ Q3 results presentations....
...; e‐mail from Marie Stewart, Lehman, to Mark Cosaitis, Lehman, et al....
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
...Had the central bank allowed the failure of Long Term Capital Management to run its course, Lehman, Bear Stearns, et al would still be here....
...The case, Gallus et al. v....
...As for Japan’s deteriorating economic climate – not to mention the downwards direction of the Nikkei average – the situation may well become “more difficult” and Sugiyama et al may have to change their minds...
...Ansari, Executive Chairman and CEO, Dubai International Capital 1000: Ken Rosen, Professor Emeritus, University of California 1030: Stephen King, Group Chief Economist, HSBC Holdings 1040: Nandan Nilekani...
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (on behalf of) suing in NYC and DC: Bassman v. Syron, et. al (FRE) Agnes v....
...After spending billions of dollars at the wrong price for shares in Merrill Lynch, Barclays et al, Singapore’s state-backed investment body Temasek says it still “sees value” in banking stocks in the US...
...The monoline is beyond the jurisdictional reach of New York Messrs Spitzer, Dinallo et al, for whom the breakup tolled. But MBIA too, has ballsy investors behind it....
...There can be little doubt that Eden et al will achieve or better the top-of-the-band pricing of $18.50-a-share....
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