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...At Interactive Investor, we have seen GameStop and cinema chain AMC Entertainment Holdings — two companies unknown to most investors a few months ago — enter the most popular holdings list for the 18-34...
...Bill Chu has joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director of the China investment banking services team based in Beijing, according to an internal memo....
...US court told PwC cut corners in Colonial audit Control+C, Control+V....
...Potts, a leading company law advocate, drew attention to the famous case of Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company....
...The class action suit was filed in 2008, shortly after AIG was rescued by the US Treasury and Federal Reserve as it racked up huge losses on insurance written on plunging mortgage securities....
...than accusing him of intentionally misleading investors – when he failed to disclose that Citigroup selected some securities referenced in the portfolio, a collateralised debt obligation known as Class V...
...The Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), in Commonwealth v Ibanez, recently upheld Massachusetts law and stated that “only the present holder of a mortgage is authorized to foreclose on the mortgaged property.”...
...In Comcast v. FCC – the “network neutrality” case – the agency was found to be making up the law as it went....
...Its banks have considerable exposure to the region, and Latvia’s proposal to cap mortgage liabilities no doubt prompted the Swedish intervention....
...A year later in KSR v....
...Service sector data from across the globe on Thursday painted an encouraging picture....
...“There has been a focus on banks’ capital, liquidity and their mortgage exposure.”...
...“It’s still possible that the committee may decide to spend more – despite the [return to growth suggested] by the services PMI this week, money and credit growth is not yet showing signs of improvement,...
...Mr Pym is also chairman of Halfords, the car parts retailer, and non-executive chairman of Old Mutual, the Anglo-South African financial services group....
...“We need to develop into financial services.”...
...Lahde’s first fund, US Residential Real Estate Hedge V Class A, soared 712.8 per cent in the year to the end of October, before this month’s sell-off pushed it past the 1,000 per cent mark....
...But they also cautioned that there may not be a simple V-shaped recovery....
...The fallout for Mr Lee from that story was predictable: three months later, Chase coughed up about $500m for the Beacon Group, a tiny mergers and acquisitions boutique, to obtain the services and cachet...
...But in spite of the celebratory mood, the chatter soon turned to recent findings by the UK’s Financial Services Authority on problems with subprime mortgages....
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