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...When George W Bush, then president, tapped him to become SEC chair in the summer of 2001, Pitt described it as “really a dream come true”....
...The fête played host to a fateful meeting between Gwen Campbell, Rodriguez’s financial adviser at Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch division, and JPMorgan Chase executive Mary Erdoes, who would eventually...
...Former US president George W Bush agreed to meet him too — “a courtesy he regularly extends to foreign dignitaries when they are in the area”, stressed his chief of staff, Freddy Ford....
...“Whether or not you have a recession in 2020 is the biggest determinant of President Trump’s re-election odds,” said Marc Sumerlin, a former official in George W Bush’s White House who is now managing partner...
...Carlos Gutierrez, the former Kellogg’s chief executive and commerce secretary in the administration of George W Bush who now chairs the National Foreign Trade Council, said his conversations with companies...
...His great-grandfather started G H Walker and Co, an investment bank that was sold to Merrill Lynch in 1978. He also set up the Walker Cup amateur golf tournament....
...The appointment, effective next week, brings an end to a spell on the sidelines for Mr Jain, 53, one of the most colourful figures in the investment-banking industry during a long career at Merrill Lynch...
...Weyerhaeuser was advised by Morgan Stanley and law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Plum Creek was advised by Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom....
...Ethan Harris, global economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, describes an escalation of China-US trade tensions as the biggest threat to the global economy this year....
...Company folklore recounts that the term apparently got its start when Gingold was standing by the stock ticker at the brokerage firm that later became Merrill Lynch....
...Views are split on the projection of oil prices, with Bank of America Merrill Lynch saying to prepare for a “W-shaped recovery in oil”, while Goldman Sachs has said the 20-month commodity rout was not over...
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch says to prepare for a “W recovery in oil”....
...Auto insurer Admiral lost 2 per cent to £18.76 after both Merrill Lynch and HSBC advised taking profit....
...C&W rose 6.3 per cent to 68.7p....
...C&W agreed in November to be bought by Liberty for £3.5bn in cash and shares. Whitbread gained 1.9 per cent to £41.99 with Merrill Lynch turning positive....
...Five million shares were sold on Friday at $13 apiece by Credit Suisse and BoA Merrill Lynch. The stock was off 13.6 per cent a pixel....
...The W-shaped markets since last August have confused many, and created opportunities....
...Talk of a balance sheet restructuring helped lift C&W Communications 4.4 per cent to 69.6p....
...Starwood owns the Le Méridien, St Regis and W brands and has 1,207 hotels, three-quarters of them in the luxury sector....
...The BofA contingent were staying at the Hotel Arts, while team UBS were a short stroll away at the W Hotel, where bankers could enjoy its Eclipse bar on the 26th floor....
...At the same time, officials also expressed concern that the government was supporting heavy consolidation in the banking sector, following the purchase by Bank of America of Merrill Lynch....
...“This is a more volatile revenue stream and typically lower margin,” said Merrill Lynch....
...The official said the move built on a bipartisan history, pointing to $2bn in climate funding pledged in 2008 during the administration of the former Republican president, George W Bush....
...Mike Klein, an FT 400 adviser with Robert W Baird in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, leads a team of 21 people....
...The administration’s relations with Congress were bad enough in any case, mostly attributable to the high-handedness of Donald Regan, the former Merrill Lynch boss who had become chief of staff....
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