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...Berlin was just the capital of Prussia until 1871 and its ruling elector prince (king from 1701) only made it his official residence in the 15th century when he built the first bits of the vast palace blown...
...of boasting that not a single covered bond — which lies at the opposite end of the risk spectrum to racier additional tier 1 (AT1) bonds — has defaulted since they were first dreamt up in the court of Prussia...
...Leland Goss, general counsel of the International Capital Markets Association, said that while the bill is well-intentioned, it would “hurt the very governments that the proposals are intended to help”....
...Aside from Canada’s TIPS, some people will point to the SuperShares project of LOR, a financial engineering firm set up by Hayne Leland, John O’Brien and Mark Rubinstein....
...Prussia, perhaps the most Occidentalist power that has ever existed inside the west, used to doubt the fibre of Britain (too commercial a culture) and France (too bloodlessly rational)....
...In April, one sold for $2.25m at online sports auction house Lelands....
...The moustache indicated Prussia’s destructive Kaiser Wilhelm II. Arp’s flight from human to organic imagery was a horrified response to the first world war....
...This Vereinigung does not involve Prussia extending its sway over Bavaria, or the West absorbing the East....
...It has also worked on a few inbound deals, such as Bank of China (Hong Kong)’s investment in Malaysia....
...Much of the story takes place in the Georgenhof estate in East Prussia, where the von Globig family takes in a stream of refugees....
...The Vix volatility index, the CBOE’s measurement of short-term volatility implied by S&P 500 option prices, has been hovering around all-time lows in recent years....
...By the time the closing bell rung out on the New York Stock Exchange, the S&P 500 was down over 20 per cent, the worst one-day drop in US history....
...In Richard Kelly’s biography Alan Clarke, Made in Britain writer David Leland recalled the response to the 1983 film (broadcast on ITV), whose portrait of a delinquent skinhead played by a young Tim Roth...
...Its second US store will open in the King of Prussia mall in Philadelphia — one of the biggest malls in the US — in November....
...Sales of leveraged loans in the US reached $607bn last year, surpassing the previous record of $535bn sold in 2007 according to data from S&P Capital IQ....
...Rofey Jeroen Rombouts Michael Ronen Jami Rubin Yann Samuelides Joshua S....
...Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins and Charles Crocker were grocers in the backwater town of Sacramento, California who formed a partnership to win the franchise: in return for bringing trains...
...Tickets at www.i-m-s.org.uk...
...Lex on secured bonds When Captain Cook first reached Australia, Prussia had just created the forerunner of today’s covered bonds....
...According to S&P LCD, the peak years now are 2014, 2015 and 2016. “You still have a maturity wall,” said Rob Hamwee of New Mountain Finance....
...Clark, author of Iron Kingdom (2006), an acclaimed history of Prussia, covers every angle but is especially good on the Balkan causes of the war....
...Our heads hur(s)t....
...But this is over a period when the the S&P index rose 13 per cent, and the year after the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index recorded an average fall of 23 per cent....
...My favourite is the story of Frederick the Great of Prussia, who nudged the local peasants to plant potatoes....
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