Hints and tips:
...The key characteristics should be: money, not credit; direct cash payments to citizens, households and companies; and, yes, the liability should be mutualised....
...Credit spreads, eh. Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...–“EU ministers approve Cyprus bailout deal”, March 24 2013 Cyprus is to become the first eurozone country ever to apply capital controls – with limits on credit card transactions, daily withdrawals, money...
...Turkey wants Brussels to grant its citizens visa-free travel to the Schengen zone, and to press on with a long-awaited customs union upgrade....
...First, a scoop to start: French private equity firm PAI Partners is set to unveil plans to acquire Dutch soft drink bottling firm Refresco Group in a deal which is expected to value the Amsterdam-listed...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...The FTSE All-World equity index was up 0.5 per cent as the FTSE Eurofirst 300 saw a 0.1 per cent gain and after the Asia-Pacific region rose 1.9 per cent....
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...Some post-Cyprus thoughts from Citi’s Buiter et al… first on rolling capital controls and the chances of a new Cypriot pound being forced into existence (our emphasis): The lack of internal convertibility...
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...(Reuters) - Philip Stephens: A taxing problem for Google et al. (Financial Times) - Analysis: The challenges facing Anglo American’s new chief....
...Indeed, “whilst all money is credit, not all credit is money: it is the possibility of transfer that makes the difference”....
...Nobody we have talked to has any actual idea if Jordan et al at the Swiss National Bank will kick the floor up (with SFr1.22 the likely spot if they do) and most don’t see them actually doing it ....
...Ratings triggers, forced sales, systemic cliff risk, et al. Still a feature in some eurozone periphery bonds, despite the rally. Portugal for instance....
...In other words, your move Angela et al....
...Outside the EU, Russia, Turkey et al. are also vulnerable to “optimisation of risk-weighted assets,” to use the euphemism plastered all over eurozone banks’ Q3 results presentations....
...According to Cassola et al. (2009), banks submitted more aggressive bids in order to make sure that they receive at least a minimum level of liquidity....
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...As argued in Buiter (2010) and Buiter et. al. (2011), the post World War II period has seen a combination of gradually eroding tax administration capacity, diminishing tax compliance in the private sector...
...By the plan, the state will offer discounted, minority stakes in state companies to tempt ordinary citizens to buy equities and to stimulate the sluggish domestic stock market....
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