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...Critics argue that, while the repo market is where the likes of J.P. Morgan might fund themselves, there are thousands of banks in the US that rely on other sources of funding....
...Neiman Marcus, J Crew, Lord & Taylor, Brooks Brothers and JC Penney all filed for bankruptcy this year....
...J Sainsbury and Wm Morrison are increasing the locations where click-and-collect services are available....
...“This merger creates greater opportunity for profitable growth than either company could achieve on its own,” said J Stewart Bryan III, Media General’s chairman, who will become chairman of the combined...
...The preludial entries: A.J....
...In 2007 the 21-year-old English exchange student Meredith Kercher was stabbed to death in Italy....
...(Wall Street Journal) - Meredith Whitney: We’ll soon know if US bank chiefs are as good as their pay suggests. (Financial Times) - Will ECB regulation of EU banks really change much?...
...“There were people who said ‘this is the new J.K. Rowling – you don’t need to market it....
...Le Pigeon: Cooking at the Dirty Bird , by Gabriel Rucker, Meredith Erickson, Andrew Fortgang, Ten Speed Press, RRP£30 / $40 I’d heard nothing about this Portland, Oregon institution until the book landed...
...Order of the British Empire CBE: John Meredith, MD, Hutchison Port Holdings, Hong Kong. John Patterson, deputy chairman, JCB Worldwidechairman and chief executive Officer, JCB Inc....
...From the WSJ on Wednesday: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is devoting billions of dollars to direct loans this year to both refinance deals and for new projects, according to a bank official....
...The event features readings and lectures by 17 Nobel Prize winners including J.M....
...Adams’s anti-heroes of Richard Nixon in Nixon in China and Palestinian hijackers in The Death of Klinghoffer, he turns his attention here to another figure with a moral dilemma that rocked the world – J....
...J Sainsbury and Tesco also rose, adding €7,250 to €137,500 and €8,870 to €53,250 respectively....
...Reporting by MichaelMackenzie and Aline van Duyn in New York, and Paul J Davies in London...
...“As the expression goes, ‘A rolling loan gathers no loss’, says Meredith Whitney, analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. “The consumer’s ability to finance his way out of trouble has diminished greatly.”...
...That trend continued after Oppenheimer analyst Meredith Whitney slashed her forecasts for earnings in fiscal 2008 by 84 per cent on average and said further downgrades were likely....
Greed, hubris and laziness got the banks in the mess they are in
...“This data release corroborates the notion that the US economy is in recession,” T.J. Marta, fixed income strategist at RBC Capital Markets, said....
...But these deals, if they are completed, would not be the first chapters in the story of the US leveraged finance market’s rehabilitation, writes Paul J. Davies....
...Contributions from the G+J titles are expected to lift Meredith revenues by $300m, to $1.2bn a year....
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