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...Thompson, CEO of Royal Mail, steps down as the group races to cut costs UK, the cap on bankers’ bonuses is removed Results: Anheuser-Busch InBev Q3, BP Q3, Fannie Mae Q3, Samsung Electronics Q3, JetBlue...
...As I found myself humming Paul Simon (“We come on the ship that sailed the Moon / We come in the age’s most uncertain hour”), I recalled that this scorched, pint-sized capsule was the only segment of the...
...Dalí made a painting of a grand room to look like the face of the Hollywood icon Mae West, his paradigm of womanly beauty, rendering her lips as the sofa....
...Simon Wells’s set of translucent screens creates multiple interiors....
...After Hannah died in 2005, Wendy and her husband Simon set up a charity in their daughter’s memory....
...The artists whose work I would collect if I could are Barkley L Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems and Kerry James Marshall....
...One of the best things to come out of the pandemic, writes Simon Kuper, could be governments working from home....
...The ADB’s new coal policy is “a positive step,” said Simon Nicholas, energy finance analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)....
...Those looking forward to a courtroom showdown will have to wait until September, when Simon and Taubman are set to go to trial....
...The Trump administration set a $200bn fundraising goal to privatise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, in what could be the largest-ever public offering....
...Johnetta Eula’Mae Ackles as the fount of stories Marjory may nominally be a captive but proves herself the most in-control and least fabulistic of the principal characters....
...They were part Mae West, part shower loofah....
...What we’re reading ‘Hundreds of emails, thousands of comments and several face-to-face dressing-downs’ Our columnist (and Remainer) Simon Kuper reflects on what he has learnt from his Brexit critics and...
...The property has prompted “many inquiries but no real interest”, says Catherine Simon-Vobornik, an agent with Baird & Warner, the agency that is listing the house....
...The jobs figures from March were “almost certainly negatively affected by the weather,” said Thomas Simons, senior money market economist at Jefferies....
...simon.kuper@ft.com; Twitter @KuperSimon Illustration by André Carrilho...
...Most mortgages are effectively financed by the US government, via the Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae finance agencies....
...In effect, we have built up clearing houses as an officially sanctioned form of credit protection, along the lines of AIG or state-backed mortgage finance lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...“We started investing more in US government debt because it seemed so safe and less in agency bonds (especially government-sponsored mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac)....
...For a helpful overview of these complications and how the NY Fed deals with them, we would recommend Simon Potter’s recent comments....
...Policy makers were briefed by Simon Potter, head of the markets group at the New York Fed, about establishing a “fixed-rate, full-allotment overnight reverse repo” facility....
...Mr Summers’s view was always that “markets will be markets, just get out of the way,” says Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund....
...out-of-work bankers are showing much more interest in traditionally unfashionable, relatively low-paid opportunities such as positions at regulatory bodies, and state-backed enterprises such as Fannie Mae...
...Simon Rawlinson, head of strategic research at EC Harris, a property consultancy, said the government would have to ensure “widespread participation” to ensure it resulted in cheap mortgage deals....
...Here are analysts led by Simon Samuels and Mike Harrison: … there is the wider debate over the comparison between US and European banks risk weightings....
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