Hints and tips:
...(FT) UK to unveil business loans and scrap emergency funds Chancellor Rishi Sunak will use the Budget next week to reveal a new UK state-guaranteed loan programme as ministers turn off the taps on the emergency...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Separately, Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Ford’s credit rating to junk....
...Saudi Arabia said Khalid al-Falih, its energy minister, had spoken to Suhail Al Mazrouei, his counterpart from the United Arab Emirates, to express “concern over the fluctuations that marred the market recently...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...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...
...We see interest rates falling, bond issuance exploding, and pressure for capital-account liberalization rising… The core of [Xi et al's] strategy is a set of three choices: 1) slow the accumulation of debt...
...Martin Wolf was right that no major central bank would raise interest rates....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...My Administration has already lined up more companies that want to help....
...al at a national level....
...We succeeded in rescuing the City in the face of opposition created by President Ford’s Administration....
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (on behalf of) suing in NYC and DC: Bassman v. Syron, et. al (FRE) Agnes v....
...We’re maybe not a central player or a central debater. FT: Okay, can I ask one more thing about G20?...
...Yet no amount of money seemed enough to persuade them to make new loans at lower rates....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...Back to cov-lite loans – though we really need Goldman et al here to answer some of these questions. There is, claims one of the panel, some confusion about cov-lites....
...Last week, in Hamdan v Rumsfeld, the Supreme Court ruled that Mr Bush did not have the right to hold military commissions to try terror suspects held at Guantánamo Bay....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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