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...He highlights a piece that references 15th-century Florentine sculptor Luca della Robbia....
...A former loom-worker, Audrey Perry, describes how the noise from 80 looms in her workplace meant that operators had to learn to lip-read....
...This glamorous collection includes big names such as Oscar-winning actors Hattie McDaniel and Sidney Poitier, but also lesser-known figures such as 1930s actress Nina Mae McKinney, nicknamed the “black Garbo...
...The role of Perry’s long-running foil, Della Street, has been reconfigured and updated....
...She addressed her avant-garde reputation head on when she released the fragrance “Shocking” in 1937 — one of several — in a bottle shaped like Mae West’s hourglass figure, and her 1954 autobiography was...
...Perry, chairman, said. Fannie Mae also named David Benson, who had served as chief financial officer and executive vice-president for the past five years, its new president....
...For hedge funds with shares in the pair — including Perry Capital, Pershing Square and Fairholme Funds — the change proved disastrous....
...Fannie Mae closed 34.7 per cent lower at $2.71, while Freddie Mac was down 38.1 per cent at $2.47....
...Perry has been stuck in a battle with the US government over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, appealing against a US district court ruling that the Treasury had the right to seize the mortgage companies’ profits...
...“Since the late 1990s, Il Capricorno has staged exhibitions by gallery artists including Hernan Bas, Verne Dawson, NS Harsha, Chantal Joffe, Wangechi Mutu and Grayson Perry,” Miro replies....
...Perry, which led the lawsuit against the government, announced in September it would wind down....
...Perry Capital was one of several funds betting the courts could help it extract profits from its stakes in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed housing finance companies....
...Common shares in Fannie and Freddie have more than doubled, with each rising more than 44 per cent on Wednesday, boosting hedge funds locked in the trade: Mr Perry’s Perry Capital said in September it would...
...It is the curse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...Some say that Thomas was, in fact, Lillie Mae Scott, who stabbed her husband to death in Houston in 1931. Perhaps she was on the run....
...Perry Capital and Fairholme Funds on Monday fired their latest salvo in a battle with the US government over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, appealing against a US district court ruling that the Treasury had...
...Most troublesome was Perry’s emphasis on the role Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in inflating the bubble of the 2000s....
...Fairholme and Perry Capital are the most outspoken plaintiffs in the two big Fannie Mae suits against the government....
...Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds and Richard Perry’s Perry Capital are among the investors to have sued the government over its treatment of the US mortgage companies....
...The aggrieved parties in that matter include such investors as Pershing Square’s Bill Ackman, Fairholme Funds’ Bruce Berkowitz and Perry Capital’s Richard Perry....
...Shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac sank 60 per cent on Wednesday after Bruce Berkowitz’s Fairholme Funds lost a lawsuit against the US government over the profits of the mortgage finance companies....
...A case brought by Perry Capital and Fairholme Funds against the US government’s decision to keep nearly all profits generated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac –- rather than share them with investors – was...
Against the odds, this all-female US five-piece performed with irresistible zest
...Owl Creek, a $3bn US hedge fund that had a trading position in the companies, suffered from the fall, as did Richard Perry’s Perry Capital and Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square....
...This year, several high-profile funds, including Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square and Richard Perry’s Perry Capital, also placed their chips on Fannie, Freddie and Shire....
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