Hints and tips:
...When pressed on the issue, asset managers in the US now emphasise that they are service providers....
...Productivity-hype bubbles are usually separated by at least 25 years and usually form at the end of a secular bull market, when aggregate profits are coming under pressure, say Garthwaite et al....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
....* Of course this begs another question: what happens to SASB, GRI et al? The Big Four leaders are too tactful to comment. But the direction of travel is clear....
...Clown car maker Aston Martin needs more money....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...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....
...Last year these included a pair of 14th-century marble lions from the tomb of Charles V of France (sold for £9.3m) and a Jiaqing period dinner service (c1805, $1.1m)....
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...the market for premium VOD services in late March....
...Funds may have sold out of Valeant, Apple et al before the rot set in....
...— Recent research by Gorton et . al about the form and role of banks as maturity transformers and creators of “private money” is very relevant to this discussion....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...Financiers said banks continue to operate in Mosul and other places where Isis has taken control, adding that foreign lenders continue to service their big multinational corporate clients in Iraq....
...Chris Sumner, managing director of Fanuc UK, an industrial robot maker, cites his company’s client training programme....
...- Five hits from Scott Sumner, on the eurozone, FOMC, et al....
...The largest is Topaz, a 147-metre vessel built by Germany’s Lürssen Yachts for a client thought to be from Abu Dhabi’s ruling Al Nahyan family....
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...The case, Gallus et al. v....
...The picture is much more subtle and insidious than the WSJ and Andrew Cuomo et al make out....
...It is spreading beyond the banking sector into financial services generally and ultimately challenging the market economy....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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