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...PacWest’s travails come days after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized First Republic and sold its deposits and assets to JPMorgan Chase....
...Keeping up with interest rate rises, paying mortgages and paying off loans are all concerns facing the population....
...However, the mix of demand has shifted slightly to more days at home: 36% would do this 1 to 2 days a week (last survey: 39%, first survey: 42%), 43% would do so 3-5 days a week (last survey: 40%, first...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Howard Davies: I expect little or no change....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...In addition to hiring others to care for their children and working ever-longer hours, blue-collar America’s third “coping mechanism” was to use their homes as piggy banks, by taking out home equity loans...
...Unemployment largely holding steady and the expected increase in the national living wage along with utility prices expected to fall in the first part of the year should help improve take-home pay....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...Young people can put money in, get a government bonus, and use it either to buy their first home or save for their retirement. Here’s how it will work....
...(Bloomberg) - How Goldman (et al)’s aluminium warehousing cost American consumers $5bn in three years. (New York Times) - The commodities supercycle is still ending....
...Bank of the Republic of China v Grenada....
...Selections by Jane Owen LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural...
...al at a national level....
...By their nature, the benefits of spending, for example, on home insulation, are much more likely to stay local, where they are needed....
...The Court has stayed all but the first-filed ERISA class action case (entitled Alvidres v. Countrywide Financial Corp., et al.)....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Shame Michael Moore et al were not listening to him back then....
...al., 2007)....
...AL: Short. FT: Saudi Arabia? AL: Long. FT: US house prices? AL: US house prices, I’d go…short. FT: Oil? AL: Long. FT: John Howard? AL: Hm, you go into my home country? Can I dwell? Long....
...Turner used his odd charm this week to persuade Al Gore – also a Southerner and conservationist – to make another run for the US presidency....
...This approach starts with the name of the company itself: Richart Design et Chocolat. Richart bills itself as a design company first, a chocolate company second....
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