Hints and tips:
... Telia: u/g to Neutral – cash flows, dividends have bottomed....
...Given the risks of intensifying competition, we cut estimates for most of the operators to factor in limited UK growth over the next three years....
...No response as M&G does not give investment advice. What should central banks do now?...
...After all, if investors didn’t care about underwriting, why should the banks?...
...This was not only a problem of the GSEs–private label securitizations also helped to enable lower underwriting standards....
...Prudential stressed that it had limited exposure to continental European markets....
...Tom Ground, head of bulk annuities at L&G, is to head the new venture. L&G declined to comment....
...But the investments are having “limited trickle-down effects”, according to the International Monetary Fund....
...That isn’t an obviously worthwhile trade, especially given our limited ability to measure the various costs and benefits of each approach....
...Lena Komileva, G+ Economics: The uptrend in UK house prices is largely a secular trend....
...Over the longer term sustainability requires that the government encourages fiscal prudence, rather than inflating house prices further by underwriting risky lending....
...traditional, high-quality prime mortgages originated between 2000 and 2004 are expected to experience roughly 0.25% in cumulative credit losses, realized over the remaining life of the mortgage pools (e.g....
...To make the perfect G&T use cold (to minimise the ice melting) gin and cold tonic poured over pure water ice cubes. Traditionally, you add double the tonic to gin, but keep it strong....
...He has a two-week internship in December, at an underwriting firm in London where his cousin works, before he flies to Havana on January 5....
...When dealing with a limited sample as opposed to a population, the originator’s ability to make statistical inferences is lessened, and small errors in underwriting can have a material impact on the performance...
...Through the G-20 and G-8, we are working with the major economies of the world on a coordinated program of macroeconomic stimulus and financial stabilization, alongside regulatory reform....
...It is also paying about £54m in fees to banks and investors underwriting the deal....
...At the same time, weak underwriting standards, unsound risk management practices, increasingly complex and opaque financial products, and consequent excessive leverage combined to create vulnerabilities...
...To date the subprime crisis has been far more limited - but with credit spreads just as tight as they were in 1998, leverage even more widespread and the technical base heavily dependent on the bid from...
...This has to be possible: with electronic communications spreading, liquidity a given, customers a plenty, and back office scale rising, the requirement for good underwriting to cover local risk and costs...
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