Hints and tips:
...Neither the monster national players (JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) nor the regionals (PNC, M&T, et al) have had much to say about the economy’s effect on credit quality....
...Among large banks, only Wells Fargo has grown assets as fast over the past two decades, and its growing pains are well known. Some regionals have grown faster, but off much smaller bases....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...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....
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...That's a relief for not only these employees, but the states' economies as well. Related Links:Cushman v the cleaner: the fight over non-competes — FT...
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Because, and as correctly diagnosed by Brooksly Born et al. ahead of time, far from behaving irrationally, finance was behaving hyper-rationally given the incentives that regulators and governments provided...
...Worse, had Dish deemed Viacom dispensable, Dish peers such as Comcast and AT&T might have been tempted to dump MTV et al as well....
...Wells Fargo Advisors, which serves regular folks, used to be Wachovia Securities but was re-branded after the smaller bank was acquired during the crisis. Wells Fargo Securities is an investment bank....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...(Wall Street Journal) - Goldman et al should be forced to incur losses on mistaken trades, says Myron Scholes. (Financial Times) - Samuel Brittan: Productivity matters, but it’s not everything....
...Mr Carr belatedly grasped something that should now be obvious to Google et al. Societies have sets of norms and ethics that extend beyond tax law....
...The benefits of a more equal distribution of wealth, as the engine of economic growth and recovery (Pickett et al), have yet to be unlocked. Dariel Francis, Tunbridge Wells, UK...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
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