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...Four weeks ago, Philip Dybvig, Douglas Diamond et al won the Riksbank Prize....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...to central bank reserves, by most dealer banks except one — JPMorgan (also see, Ihrig et, al, 2018)....
...In letters last week, the state’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) requested information about loans and other financial arrangements between the Kushners and Deutsche Bank, Signature Bank and New...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...A tie-up would cement Pekao’s position as Poland’s second-biggest bank by assets behind Bank Polski at a time when banks around Europe are looking for ways to cope with higher regulatory requirements and...
...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...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...After all, here’s a US district court judge holding forth in Ex-Im Bank v Grenada this week (basically to confirm that more work is needed in that case to see if Grenada’s been as “recalcitrant” a debtor...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...On the flip side, one study (Chen et al., 2011) concluded that the inflationary consequences of QE1 and QE2 were less than 50bps....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...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....
...Nevertheless, here’s what Credit Suisse surmise as the main weapons available to Bernanke et al: 1. rhetoric / altered policy language 2. bank reserve neutralization (reverse repos; term deposits) 3....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Lib Dems in local government who face electoral disaster because of the growing unpopularity of Clegg, Cable et al at a national level....
...If not it would be a dovish sign. So, will the Fed listen to these QE cries? And forget “disappointment” — will Goldman Sachs et al be mightly ticked-off if they don’t?...
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
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