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...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...Among large banks, only Wells Fargo has grown assets as fast over the past two decades, and its growing pains are well known. Some regionals have grown faster, but off much smaller bases....
...Here are the 30-day card delinquency rates for Bank of America, JPMorgan and Wells Fargo (Citi has an annoying comparability issue with its historical data so we left it out) the past five first quarters...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...It followed a string of other adviser exits in recent weeks (Nick Timothy, Fiona Hill et al). More surprising was his candour....
...These days, a section called Poet’s Corner — a cluster of Victorian streets named after Milton, Chaucer, Spenser et al — is a property hotspot....
...Wells Fargo Advisors, which serves regular folks, used to be Wachovia Securities but was re-branded after the smaller bank was acquired during the crisis. Wells Fargo Securities is an investment bank....
...Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi, a radical Egyptian feminist provocateur; Sarah Bakewell’s At the Existentialist Café, on Sartre, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir et al....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...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...
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...(Financial Times)(Wall Street Journal)(Bloomberg)(FastFT) Moody’s may downgrade biggest US banks, saying bailouts less likely in future: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo could...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...Again, it was all a bit vague in the courtroom, but one idea seemed to be giving NML et al whatever the backlog of 11 years of payments was, and then paying them at the EBG rate thereafter....
...Dodd Frank rule-making to date: April 2012 was a pretty big month in Dodd-Frank Act rulemaking; the SEC and CFTC agreed how to define “swap dealer”, “major swap participant”, et al. under Title VII of the...
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Sir, Tim Congdon et al point out, with considerable justification, that the omission of a commercial banking sector from mainstream macroeconomic models – such as the canonical model developed by Michael...
...According to Cassola et al. (2009), banks submitted more aggressive bids in order to make sure that they receive at least a minimum level of liquidity....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
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