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...In each episode, disruptions in dollar funding markets led to an extraordinary policy response in the form of central bank swap lines, whereby the Federal Reserve channelled US dollars to key central banks...
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...As Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said: “You don’t want to waste a crisis.”...
...(FT) Shipping lines stalled For the container shipping industry, whose fortunes depend on globalisation, coronavirus has proven a formidable foe: sailors are stranded on ships, while containers arrived...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Overnight, the Federal Reserve had spent $85bn to bail out the huge insurance company AIG, which had unwisely guaranteed much credit now sitting on banks’ books....
...Only two are located in Canada: Heritage Royalty, an oil and gas royalty company with its headquarters in Calgary, and Global Container Terminals, which operates assets in Vancouver as well as New York and...
...(FastFT) Comcast “submitted a lengthy document to federal regulators to justify its $45 billion proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable....
...Sodha dances along the line, evoking the exotic but delivering extremely achievable recipes. A charming book....
...The number of Americans who claimed unemployment insurance for the first time leapt 78,000 last week to 439,000....
...Guaranteed to entertain, from its attention-grabbing opening line to its gloriously bizarre climax. Pow!...
...Ten days later, Washington Mutual, the US’s biggest Savings and Loans association, was seized by the US Office of Thrift Supervision and placed under the receivership of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...
...It underlines how France Telecom et al in Europe may also find it hard to get the technology company to pay....
...., Inc., which was formed in 1950 and focuses on highly specialized insurance lines; far more, we believe, have joined other, larger companies....
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...Mr Bernanke is pushing to broaden the rules, which currently apply only to banks regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to include all significant institutions....
...Citigroup agreed to buy most of its assets and liabilities in a deal brokered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...Charles Kreidl, Chicago, Illinois, US Alex Frankel: There is no doubt that loyalty and turnover are huge issues in the front-line retail environments where I worked (Starbucks, Gap, et al.) as well as across...
...The Jebel Ali port, from which DP World originated, is itself at the heart of the greatest irony in Americans’ concern about a state-owned Dubai company running their container terminals....
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