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...Inside the ‘basis trade’ on the Treasuries market Over the past month, the Bank for International Settlements, a convening body for the world’s central banks, and US Federal Reserve researchers have pointed...
...(FT) Jordan royal family’s sibling feud Long-running resentment and suspicion between Jordan’s King Abdullah and his younger brother sparked palace turmoil over the weekend, when Prince Hamzah was accused...
...(The Atlantic) Man v machine Sensitivity to “gut feelings” is a strong predictor of success in financial trading, according to research led by Cambridge university....
...A sharp fall for the Swiss franc versus the euro – after Swiss National Bank boss Thomas Jordan said he expected the Swissie to lose more ground versus the single currency – triggered strength in the eurozone...
...“Now all the vory have gone to work for the FSB [the Federal Security Service, successor to the KGB], and life has got duller,” conceded Gladki, over lunch at a coffee house around the corner from my office...
...It makes for depressing reading, not least because the Federal Reserve and the federal government, which rescued the economy, have been turned into the villains of the story....
...From the press release: BankUnited, a newly chartered federal savings bank, acquired the banking operations, including all of the nonbrokered deposits, of BankUnited, FSB, Coral Gables, Florida, in a transaction...
...The lawyers believe that a primary purpose of Guantanamo was to act as an intelligence bank and a source of potential double agents....
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