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...The merger would reduce the ranks of the top 10 US credit card companies, leaving fewer options for consumers....
...Holdings of UK-listed companies by British pension and insurance funds have plunged from about half of their portfolios to 4 per cent over the past two decades, according to data from Ondra....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...Travel spending by big US companies was “well over 50 per cent” of pre-pandemic levels in March, the chief financial officer of American Express told the FT last week....
...So they have all of this cash from these companies. They got this influx of money. Those companies are highly interest-rate sensitive....
...What she needs is a series of external, positive economic shocks, let’s say the end of the war in Ukraine, or for some reason the gas price comes down or the American economy picks up more quickly than we...
...The insurance company carries little debt, and a lot of excess capital....
...Three North American companies are setting up a rare earths supply chain to reduce dependence on China for the vital metals used in weapons, electric vehicles and other advanced technology....
...The stimulus bill — known as the American Rescue Plan — is one of the largest US government interventions in the economy of the post-second world war era....
...economy falters....
...“They also help diversify the index by removing overlap between companies of similar scope and adding new types of businesses that better reflect the American economy.”...
...It said companies were facing challenges bringing staff back to work, because of health concerns, the difficulty in obtaining child care, and “generous unemployment insurance benefits”....
...Just as creatively, they set up life insurance company Athene Holding, which attracts billions of dollars of life insurance premiums to provide some of the fuel for this $200bn credit machine....
...The Fed’s actions have stabilised financial markets after brutal sell-offs and disruptions last month, offering some breathing room to the battered American economy....
...This reflects the fact that banks remain “the main source of liquidity insurance” for US companies, according to Sascha Steffen, a professor at the Frankfurt School of Finance, and Viral Acharya of NYU,...
...And we are seeing the Americas at large, including the US, but also Latin American countries, at a later stage of this recovery process....
...(FT) Business shuns Prince Andrew The Duke of York is losing corporate support for his charitable work, with companies including KPMG and insurance company Aon distancing themselves from the Queen’s second...
...Institutions such as Daiichi Life, a Japanese insurance company, and individual investors have invested in the bonds....
...When Slovak Republic v Achmea reached the ECJ in 2018, it had been eight long years for London-based Hogan Lovells partner Markus Burgstaller, who represented the country against the Dutch company....
...• Funds flow to equities relative to bonds has never held up this well (given performance and low bullish sentiment) because: i) bonds risk no longer diversifying, and ii) pension/insurance companies’...
...From what we see,the company’s current approach to fixed-cost allocation is completely appropriate, but the effects are magnified by effectively being a one-product company....
...CG top picks: • Senior producers: Newmont, Pan American Silver, B2Gold • Intermediate/Junior producers: Teranga, Dundee Precious Metals • Royalty/streaming companies: Wheaton Precious Metals 12:10pm...
...Optimism levels among US pharmaceutical companies jumped 40 per cent to 87 per cent over the past year, the biggest change of any sector, according to the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai....
...The extraordinary story of how Japanese millennials are shaping a new sort of “experiential” economy, one Instagrammed snack at a time....
...The building is owned by Related Companies, founded by Stephen Ross, the billionaire and Miami Dolphins American football team owner. About 20 of the 107 units were reserved for low-income households....
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