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...His charts of North American profits: Measuring the total profitability of the corporate sector is a tricky, uncertain business....
...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...
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Grants have accounted for only about half the LLC’s $890m of spending since inception, says Matt Bannick, managing partner at the Omidyar Network....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...al-Qaeda acolyte who was killed at age 25 by a US drone strike in Yemen in 2011....
...Dow said late last year that it plans to carve out $5bn of commodity chemicals business, but Mr Loeb et al think far more is possible....
...that range from German carmakers Porsche and Volkswagen to Tiffany, the American jeweller....
...Anthony Armstrong, a high-flying American banker at Credit Suisse, was seconded to the fund after advising Qatar Holding on the complex VW-Porsche acquisition....
...(Bloomberg) - How Goldman (et al)’s aluminium warehousing cost American consumers $5bn in three years. (New York Times) - The commodities supercycle is still ending....
...As reported by a leaked US diplomatic cable, following a $100m donation in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, the prime minister, told an American official: “We may have our own...
...That figure pales against the total value of the US housing market – $23.7tn at the end of 2012, according to Zillow – but it could grow exponentially if Blackstone et al are able to get their hands on cheap...
...Standard Chartered has named Tom Emmet as head of mergers and acquisitions for the Middle East and north Africa....
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