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...The price of the bonds themselves, however, at around 20 cents on the dollar indicates a much less favourable outcome for holders....
...After all, why pay the high coupon when the bank doesn’t actually need the loss-absorbing “fool’s gold”?...
...Peer Standard Chartered is only now recovering from Asian follies....
...But GAAP standards changed over history. The data set doesn’t account for this, destroying historical comparisons....
...Disney will provide a high-quality, high-standard role model for the industry, and will promote a shift from price competition to quality and brand competition,” he said....
...Hundreds of new recruits arriving next year will receive 70 per cent of standard salary for their first four years, while pensions will be less generous....
...Partly due to the high cost of credit, about 100,000 Vietnamese companies folded in 2011 and 2012, half of all the companies to have closed down during the past 20 years....
...Richard Carter, the shotgun-riding director of global communications, describes one Asian customer as “slightly crestfallen” to discover that the price of his bespoke Ghost came to $840,000....
...And the move by Standard & Poor’s to downgrade US sovereign debt to AA+ could have negative indirect effects....
...It remains problematic in terms of human rights and because of the high risk that it might re-export arms,” says Mr Mampaey....
...Many Serbs downplayed the initial shock, musing that the country had been in crisis for 20 years already....
...The shotgun deal, which belied his reputation as a cautious banker – even by Japanese standards – raised eyebrows. But Mr Kuroyanagi remains steadfast that the deal was advantageous to MUFG....
...Having been a high-flyer at both Standard Life, the Edinburgh-based life assurer, and RBS, he was ousted from HBOS in 2007 after just over a year as head of its retail bank....
...The index suggests that luxury goods are more volatile in price than standard inflation measures....
...Cerberus, the US private equity group, owns Remington, the biggest US maker of shotguns and rifles....
...As measured by accounting standards, UK schemes, which once recorded huge deficits, were in surplus by the middle of last year....
...The broader 20-city index fell 12.7 per cent, the biggest drop since the index was launched in 2001....
...Another 40 per cent took CSE, and 20 per cent took nothing. GCSE was a shotgun marriage of the two exams, intended to accommodate everyone....
...Stone himself brags that he has “a high tolerance, a very high tolerance” for killing. “Don’t get me wrong,” he says. “You have to have violence. The moderate mosques had extremist imams....
...The pizza was pretty basic by today’s standards, of course....
...So the profile of the increases has been rather high....
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