Hints and tips:
...Torsten Slok, chief US economist at Deutsche Bank, says interest rate cuts by the Fed and moves to ease monetary conditions in Europe, China and Japan will drive pension funds and insurance companies to hunt...
...Second, the big one, Renault wants to merge with Nissan within a year, before going on the acquisition hunt itself....
...The company has said it was victim of a “witch-hunt”, and that the authorities had “cherry-picked” examples....
...More than half of the Federal Reserve’s $4.47tn balance sheet consists of US Treasuries, with mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac making up a further...
...In the US, the status of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the community reinvestment act, were not determined by the Fed, which did not have the power to regulate the rating agencies....
...Investors have rushed to hunt for income, suppressing borrowing costs for companies and countries....
...“We have a garden we’ve started in the back yard, and we like to hunt and do a lot of outdoor activities, so we have set up a little target range outside. The land we are on used to be a golf course....
...Quicken, which had pre-emptively sued the DoJ, has accused it of “a witch hunt”....
...If a version of this plan eventually becomes law, it will effectively start a hunt for private investors wanting to shoulder $500bn of the current $5tn of Fannie and Freddie debt, an amount about half the...
...“Many of [recruiters’] key international clients are local branches of Europe-based multinational companies [especially banks], which have imposed hiring freezes across the board,” warns Peel Hunt in a research...
...However, Mr Issa, who would replace Henry Waxman, the California Democrat, if the Republicans win next month, tried to play down talk there would be a witch-hunt of the Obama administration, as many Democrats...
...The hunt for uncorrelated asset classes, just because they have historically been uncorrelated, should be over. ……………………………………………………………....
...Yet, for the next few years governments will play a larger role in their economies and will hunt for regulatory formulas that “ensure” this kind of crisis does not reoccur....
...Separately, federal investigators have opened inquiries into at least 25 companies, including Lehman, AIG, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Wamu....
...Allowing for the nationalisation of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the US debt to GDP ratio would be “only” 70 per cent, Andrew Hunt Economics reckons....
...Insight: Hunt for value queered by lack of a reliable measurement More UK fund managers than at any time since the dark days of 2003, it seems, think their home market is cheap....
...“Investors and others will be in the bunker for a while, but pretty soon, they will have to go out and hunt for food,” he says. Hannah Glover is a reporter on Ignites, a Financial Times publication...
...Sometimes a business story seems cinematic, like a film-to-be on the hunt for just the right director. There is currently a potential film out there that has Oliver Stone's name written all over it....
...One congressman claimed the regulator was on "a witch hunt" after failing to spot accounting problems at Freddie, which became enmeshed in its own scandal last year....
...It's the revolution, stupid Boeing, Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Fannie Mae, AIG....
...Work the phones, track down sources, dig for dirt, grill management and hunt for company news....
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