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...From Meret Oppenheim’s furry teacup to Salvador Dalí’s Mae West-lips sofa, the joy in sex and subversion oozes through its artefacts, some intended for use, others for provocation, most for both....
...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...
...Rosie Lee Tompkins was born Effie Mae Martin to a sharecropping family in Arkansas, and began to earn a living exclusively from quilting in her fifties....
...Do you simply track the broad index, such as the S&P 500 (a much smarter choice than the wild ride offered by the Dow Jones Industrials index) or do you back an active fund manager?...
...* This story has been amended since first publication to remove a reference to Paul Tudor Jones...
...It’s sometimes quite wrongly attributed to Mae West, who had an entirely different kind of pocketed weapon in mind....
...Baker McKenzie has hired Christopher Jones, the deputy director for energy at the European Commission. Jones will join the law firm’s Brussels office as a principal in October....
...Three years later, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had sunk to 7,200....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.5 per cent to 2,108.95, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.4 per cent to 18,053.58. The Nasdaq Composite gained 0.7 per cent to 5,104.89....
...A legal ruling that threw out an attempt by hedge funds to force the US government to share profits made by the mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with private investors damaged hedge funds that...
...Modern ABS originated in the US mortgage market in the 1970s when the government, through its agency known as Ginnie Mae, guaranteed the first mortgage securities that passed through the mortgage principal...
...The move by the FHFA, which runs both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac through conservatorship, would help protect taxpayers from some losses on mortgage defaults....
...To one side of the stage drummer Daru Jones pummelled his low-slung kit, wringing everything he could from the basic drum patterns that White tends to employ....
...Mr Ackman set out for the first time in public his rationale for buying 11 per cent of the shares of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-run mortgage finance groups which collapsed into government...
...(FastFT) News Corp spins off local news titles: The group sold the 33 publications in its Dow Jones Local Media Group to an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, highlighting how the newspaper industry...
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was gained 0.4 per cent to 14,974.96....
...In pre-market trading, shares in BofA, the best performer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2012, declined 2.4 per cent....
...The Fed has said it will purchase both mortgage-backed securities issued by the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac along with government debt until there is a sustained improvement...
...Even Japan, where the Post Office is in state hands, and the US, which has Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, may fall foul of some provisions....
...The Nasdaq Composite index lost 0.1 per cent to 3,098.81, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average also fell 0.4 per cent to 13,384.29....
...The FHA now guarantees more seriously delinquent mortgages than either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.4 per cent to 12,932.73, its first close below the 13,000 threshold in three months. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.5 per cent to 2,937.29....
...Mortgage-backed bonds trade on a lower yield than treasuries – below 2.2 per cent for a 30-year Fannie Mae bond. Back in 1985, 30-year mortgage bonds yielded 12.8 per cent....
...This anticipates further downgrades by S&P of the credit ratings of securities issued by entities linked to the US government, such as the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 2.5 per cent to 11,124.84 and the Nasdaq was off 2 per cent at 2,538.19....
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