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...Then a cover of Ethel Waters’ subtle riposte to racial stereotyping captured on a 1933 recording of “Underneath the Harlem Moon”....
...In one of the show’s opening images, from Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Rivington Place Portfolio” (2006-7), the artist haunts the British Museum portico in a spectral black dress....
...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...In New York last week, Friedrich Petzel opened his new 16,000 sq ft Chelsea gallery with shows by the sought-after American painter Emily Mae Smith, whose work just made an auction record of HK$12.5mn ($1.6mn...
...In a moment of portentous symbolism, her character, Ethel, is trapped inside a television and eaten by a cartoon monster....
...US Supreme Court deals blow to Fannie and Freddie shareholders Shares in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac plunged by more than a third yesterday after the Supreme Court threw out investors’ claims that the US...
...The approach contrasts with competitor Vista Equity Partners, headed by billionaire Robert Smith, which for years sought to replace management and impose rigid change....
...One week from today: Join the FT team, including DD’s own Rob Smith and Arash Massoudi, as they take you inside the rise and fall of Greensill Capital and give you a front-row seat into the FT’s reporting...
...(FT) Exchange mega-deal New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange has struck the largest deal in its 20-year history, agreeing to pay $11bn for residential mortgage data provider Ellie Mae...
...The singer will be in attendance, as photographed by the US artist Carrie Mae Weems, sitting alone at a long table groaning with fruit, flowers, strings of pearls and African sculpture....
...The Trump administration set a $200bn fundraising goal to privatise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in what could be the largest-ever public offering....
...and Ginnie Mae — as it slashed its main interest rate to near zero eight days ago....
...While the Federal Reserve moved to shore up the residential mortgage market, agreeing to buy any of the securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, it did not go so far as to backstop the entire...
...The dealmaking continued with the New York Stock Exchange owner Intercontinental Exchange’s $11bn purchase of US mortgage data provider Ellie Mae in August....
...Specifically, the markets for US government debt, or Treasuries, and for agency mortgage-backed securities — bundles of mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — have both begun to behave abnormally...
...But, as Meng told the FT’s Peter Smith at the end of last year, he needed to find a way to earn that additional 1-2 percentage points....
...Additional reporting by Colby Smith in New York and Kadhim Shubber in Washington...
...They may sound like savvy friends, but they’re actually financial planning apps so named to foster trust in financial institutions — a practice that goes back to Fannie Mae in 1938....
...He has been vocal about his push for the government to privatise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the housing agencies....
...Email: robert.smith@ft.com; Twitter: @BondHack...
...Smith Goes to Washington (“a great film”). Yet he did. He was sceptical of Hitchcock but came around with Sabotage (1936)....
...Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, is working on a set of proposals that he hopes will end the 10-year government control of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which guarantee most of the mortgages in the...
...The Atlanta-based company more than doubled revenues in the 12 years Richard Smith spent at the helm....
...Van Vechten’s pictures of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston and Ethel Waters stress their hard-earned dignity....
...Fannie Mae named Hugh Frater as its next chief executive on Wednesday. Frater had held the interim chief executive role since last October and has been on the group’s board since 2016....
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