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...His charts of North American profits: Measuring the total profitability of the corporate sector is a tricky, uncertain business....
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...Stephanie Hui, the head of Goldman Sachs’s private equity business in Asia, said earlier this week she had stopped trying to raise money in the US for Asian deals, demonstrating how North American investors...
...OUTSIDE CONTENDER: Hamed Bin Zayed al Nahyan The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority was set up in 1976, the year Mao Zedong died and when Norway was only starting to pump a few barrels of oil out of the North...
...Providence Equity Partners has promoted Davis Noell and David Phillips to senior managing directors and North American co-heads in New York, as well as Karim Tabet and Andrew Tisdale as European-co-heads...
...In 1957, its longtime Africa director Jules Cousin wrote fearfully of the asset seizures in the Russian and Chinese revolutions and a recent string of independences in north Africa....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...When the Colony Capital chief executive was trying to get himself installed as Middle East envoy in 2017, he sent a text message to a businessman and reputed Emirati intelligence asset named Rashid al-Malik...
...Here, an alternative option could be for Centrica to sell its North American energy supply business. Overall, we estimate 12%-40% downside under this scenario....
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...The biggest of today’s stars — Beyoncé, Rihanna et al — treat the notion of complete self-revelation to an interviewer, a staple of rock stars of the past, as utterly alien, so why would they sign up for...
...A brief history of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac For decades, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have helped Americans secure cheaper mortgages....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...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....
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...Going back to Firestone et al, they found that adding additional percentage points to the capital ratio reduces the risk of crisis by less and less as the level of capital rises....
...They were due to have dinner with Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani, at the time the Gulf state’s powerful prime minister....
...Jim McCaughan, chief executive of Principal Global Investors, the fund house that oversees more than $400bn of assets, was probably one of the last Americans on earth to learn about Donald Trump’s victory...
...West Texas Intermediate, the US oil marker, was down 1.9 per cent to $43.80 a barrel ahead of an inventories report due from the American government at 10:30 am ET....
...The only panellist without a tie, Mr Cohen spoke in his down-home Long Island accent of the two women who sparked his interest in trading: his grandmother, and an “African-American lady who used to take...
...According to Egan et al, the chance any given doctor is sued for malpractice in any given year is quite low, comparable to the probability a random financial adviser is penalised for wrongdoing....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...The net effect can be seen below: According to Greenspan et al, the shifting proportion of workers to retirees will supposedly increase demand for goods and services relative to supply....
...Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, which administers more than $250bn in pension fund assets, this year launched a subsidiary to manage all project preparation itself....
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