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...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...That makes it easy for central banks to be surprised by, say, a massive and violent deleveraging in a country’s pensions....
...Companies that sell software to insurance groups have also fared better....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
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...Businesses, including shops and bank branches, were closed on Monday, with some companies, including HSBC and Deloitte, the professional services firm, advising staff to leave work early....
...Some companies such as Amazon don’t report much profit, while highly profitable companies such as Apple shift profits to countries with low taxes....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...The grouping, seen as a way to break the stranglehold of the country’s four big high street banks, is confronting a tougher climate....
...Bank shareholders lost money as well, but the survey data from Brown et al found that shareholders did not increase their holdings of cash if they had avoided any haircut on deposits or bonds: The type...
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...A tie-up would cement Pekao’s position as Poland’s second-biggest bank by assets behind Bank Polski at a time when banks around Europe are looking for ways to cope with higher regulatory requirements and...
...(Foreign Policy) Video of the day Tech v Trump Airbnb, Uber, Twitter, Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are among the technology companies that submitted an amicus brief against Mr Trump’s immigration...
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...The biggest casualty of some $14tn of global debt trading below zero per cent were the pension and insurance industries....
...For a generation or more, in rich countries, both banks and politicians have seemed complicated and not terribly important, so many economists have ignored them....
...Now it’s much more al desko.”...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...For instance, companies can falsify export and import invoices, or trade finance documents, in order to move money in and out of the country....
...In the mid seventies, Chile was poised to serve as the test lab for the economic ideas propounded by Milton Friedman et al at the University of Chicago....
...Say, as was suggested to us, by allocating much bigger quotas to those large long-only funds and insurance companies who don’t trade very often....
...A study by Global Financial Integrity, the anti-corruption group in Washington, estimates 56-76 per cent of illicit flows are deposited in banks in developed countries....
...If you don’t believe us, well, we have charts… First, from the liquidity and flow tracking team of Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou et al at JP Morgan, comes evidence of the greatness of the rotation: Flows into...
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