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...The benchmark S&P 500 closed 0.6 per cent higher at 3,039.4, taking it past its previous peak of 3,025.9 on July 26 and notching an intraday record of 3,044.1 in the process....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...The biggest activist fight — Nelson Peltz v Procter & Gamble — was only recently settled, two months after a shareholder vote....
...Deleveraging will be the story, just not quite yet as the same speed as Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals, Newcrest Mining et al.”...
...In New York, the S&P 500 equity index edged up less than 0.1 per cent to 2,058, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index rose 0.3 per cent....
...Radical policies should include rethinking the shareholder value form of corporate governance which has seen S&P 500 companies spend over $3 trillion on share buybacks in the last decade (to boost stock...
...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...
...(Bloomberg) - How Goldman (et al)’s aluminium warehousing cost American consumers $5bn in three years. (New York Times) - The commodities supercycle is still ending....
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...Selections by Jane Owen LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural...
...- Five hits from Scott Sumner, on the eurozone, FOMC, et al....
...The case (now called FCC v. Fox Television Stations et al) was appealed to the US Supreme Court, where it was debated on Tuesday....
...According to Peter Lehr, an expert on terrorism at St Andrews University, the belt “was then copied by all terrorist organisations, notably al-Qaeda and other Islamist organisations”....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...A shareholder derivative action in the Delaware Court of Chancery: Seymour v. Samuels, et al....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
...But really, was it, as S+V and the DVD’s title claim, the “greatest Test ever”?...
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...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
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