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...Among them were influential staffers Jon Mendelsohn, Neal Lawson and Ben Lucas who set up LLM Communications in 1997....
...In an age when big-name rappers treat studio albums as superyachts, competing to rock up to the charts in the biggest vessel, Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist’s Alfredo takes an appealingly concise approach...
...These are medium-term issues that aren’t going to be resolved quickly,” said Freddie George, retail analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald....
...Gerald Lucas, senior investment adviser at Deutsche Bank, said he believed Treasury yields would have to stay lower for an “extended period” to enable banks to lower their mortgage rates....
...Much attention in the new Congress is likely to remain on Wall Street, financial regulation, and addressing other lingering crisis-related issues, such as what to do with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the...
...Mr Lehman says that sharply wider mortgage spreads are likely to result in the government using Fannie and Freddie to step in and stabilise the market with buying....
...As Robert Lucas, a Nobel Laureate, once famously informed his dean at the University of Chicago: “You don’t get to decide my salary, you only get to decide who pays my salary.”...
...“When the Fed stops buying mortgages, spreads will widen, but they won’t blow out,” said Gerald Lucas, senior investment adviser at Deutsche Bank....
...“We have seen an asset allocation out of credit, because it’s had such a good run, and that money has gone into Treasuries,” said Gerald Lucas, senior investment advisor at Deutsche Bank....
...In a speech this week, Lucas Papademos, ECB vice-president, confirmed that the central bank was considering further options including “purchases of private debt securities in the secondary market”....
...The rest – Peloton, Fannie, Freddie et al – is, for want of a better term, collateral damage....
...“The F&F rescue had a positive but short-lived impact on investors’ mood,” said Luca Cazzulani, strategist at UniCredit....
...Gerald Lucas, senior investment adviser at Deutsche Bank in New York, said: ‘‘When you get a new treasury secretary it’s a chance for a fresh approach....
...“Fiscal responsibility and legislative gridlock is good for the dollar,” says Gerald Lucas, senior investment adviser at Deutsche Bank....
...But the market is still holding a slight net short position, which could push prices higher yet, said Mr Lucas....
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