Hints and tips:
...But as Steven Kelly of the Yale Program on Financial Stability pointed out to me, Yellen et al will need the goodwill of the big banks should some other bank or banks get into trouble....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...The lawyers representing BlackRock et al argue that the retransfer of the bonds was “unlawful”. Only five bonds were moved, out of a total of 52 conceivable candidates....
...(NYT) Why would a bank pay $400,000 for an Obama speech?...
...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...
...al (2014)....
...The question is whether that benefit would look so attractive were JPMorgan et al forced to internalise most of the costs of a breakup while remaining in their current form....
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...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...
...So the FDIC as liquidator of Penn Square et al asserted that the “sales” of loan participations by Penn Square and the others were not “true sales” that gave rights to the underlying collateral (whatever...
...But which is more successful at motivating a team, and delivering outstanding financial results?...
...Are Moody’s et al miffed? Apparently not (yet). Hardwick says they’ve been having discussions about displaying traditional ratings information alongside the newly-liberated counterparty info....
...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...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...- Why the Acme Brick Company et al are Berkshire’s secret weapons....
...Did Operation Twist manage to suppress some of the inflation-paranoia generated by the likes of Ron Paul, Zerohedge, Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff et al, who previously made an explicit point of calling QE “money...
...Yet the impact of Enron et al was trivial compared with the impact of the failures in government accounting and financial management....
...But oversupply looms over the rest of the real estate market, which could drop by another 20 per cent this year and next, according to local investment bank Arqaam Capital....
...So RIP, Ranger Funding, Kitty Hawk Funding, Yorktown Capital et al....
...The plan would have introduced new capital providers to repay the £180m owed to Royal Bank of Scotland. The remaining £100m would remain on the company’s balance sheet....
...So are we missing something here, or is the Goldman approach tantamount to giving Volcker, Dodd et al the finger? That can’t be Goldman’s intention....
...That’s more dilution discounts in shares for the hard-pressed taxpayers who saved RBS et al. The markets must be utterly bemused quaking in their boots at being opened up....
...as well as the George V Hotel in Paris and the Fairmont Raffles....
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