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...Two US-based bankers told DD that they were working on a number of European Spacs that want to list in the US with the aim of acquiring businesses at home....
...Job moves K&L Gates has hired Raphaël Bloch as a partner in its corporate and M&A practice in Paris. He joins from Allen & Overy....
...But K Shanmugam, minister of law and home affairs, has denied the new rule could harm freedom of speech, given it does not deal with opinions but merely tackles “false statements of fact”....
...Fannie and Freddie share chunks of the risks they take on with the private sector: in a typical Freddie Mac rental transaction, for instance, known as a “K-Deal”, private investors would have to pick up...
...“Populist hero Stephen K Bannon returns home to Breitbart” the alt-right news outlet declared on its website on Friday afternoon....
...If Trent Reznor [of Nine Inch Nails] says ‘Get the f**k out of my way,’ you get the f**k out of his way. Dr Dre said: ‘If you send one of your guys up to my studio they’re not going to make it out....
...direct exposures of most Asia-Pacific financial institutions to the U.K. appear to be manageable at current rating levels....
...Consider definedcontribution retirement plans like 401(k)s....
...Hedge funds’ performance crisis goes some way to explaining why the SAC case has failed to rattle most people in the industry, who have problems closer to home to contend with....
...This one’s focused on mobile home sales, a.k.a “manufactured” housing. As Colas notes mobile-home sales and prices slipped in line with the broader US housing market over the last few years....
..., former President of the Export-Import Bank, United States Katrina Lantos Swett, Tom Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice Eugene K....
...The hedge fund’s motion to intervene was eventually denied by the court, with Judge Alvin K....
...The same friends would also have cringed at buying the bonds of home builders such as Hovnanian at the beginning of the year, or of Rite Aid, the drug store chain....
...Last Christmas, Mr Hands sent contacts a copy of J.K. Galbraith’s The Great Crash....
...In the last quarter, the company, which makes mid-range homes, suffered a net loss of $216m....
...The WSJ notes: the U.K.’s house-price boom wasn’t accompanied by a boom in new-home construction, which in the U.S. led to a glut of supply that still weighs on prices....
...A recent promotion by builder K. Hovnanian, offering discounts of up to 30 per cent on homes nationwide, led to 2,100 sales in three days, the company said....
...In the different dialects spoken in the windward and leeward islands, the alternatives run from the basic “tudo dretu ?” (everything straight?) to the gentle “tudo tranquil ?”...
...To ask where the bank is, for example, the phrase is: “Ondé k’e bonk ?” The sentence investors hope not to need is: “N ka tem d’nher ” – “I don’t have any money”....
...Had anybody mentioned that the US only legalised home brewing in 1979?...
...Shares in Toll Brothers put on 5.3 per cent to $39.17, while Hovnanian Enterprises was up 4.1 per cent to $46.64. NVR, whose rating was cut to “sell” from “buy”, gained 2.4 per cent to $696.05....
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