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...The FT’s Daniel Thomas chronicles the UK’s quest to regain its IPO mojo here. Welcome to the Due Diligence briefing from the Financial Times. Not a subscriber? Sign up here....
...“We have not seen markets price in this level of near-term ’event risk’ in almost a decade,” said Thomas Lee at Fundstrat Global Advisors....
...The rise of the cosmopolitan metropolis, swollen by immigrants, produced the Populist party of the 1890s, led by Thomas E Watson, champion of the agrarian poor....
...It is racing to build a Hyperloop track that can allow travel over hundreds of miles – such as between Helsinki and St Petersburg, or San Francisco to Los Angeles – in around half an hour....
...The two journalists were later released after LA Times reporter Matt Pearce contacted Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson to ask about the incident....
...“What he really looks for is not businesses that throw off cash, it’s businesses that can absorb cash,” says Thomas A Russo of asset managers Gardner Russo & Gardner, a shareholder since 1981....
...Cleve Daniels, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, St Thomas, US Virgin Islands The coconut palm is one of the most popular plants in the US Virgin Islands and we have many of them at the hotel....
...As the veteran political observers Norm Ornstein and Thomas Mann point out in their forthcoming book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, America is suffering from asymmetric polarisation....
...“The starts and permits data offer encouragement that the worst of the housing downturn is over,” said Thomas Simons, market economist at Jefferies....
...Just as the credit crisis was unfolding in the summer of 2007, Permal Investment Management paid a record rent of about £140 per sq ft on a floor at 12 St James’s Square....
...It’s getting an cash infusion of $2.5bn from Citadel and Blackrock – and chief executive Mitchell Caplan is joining the Wall St job club, to be replaced, temporarily at least, by Jarrett Lilien....
...Romanian TV provider RCS & RDS has announced a price range of $5.25 – $7.25 for its GDRs. The company first announced its intention to float earlier this month....
...There’s also of late been more talk about what would happen if the big Wall St firms applied the E-Trade haircut to their level 3 assets (which include all sorts of things beside CDOs.)...
...The early market panic over the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis was exacerbated by William Poole, president of the St Louis Federal Reserve, who denied that the subprime issue pointed to a systemic...
...So here is a deal that seems to have it all: banking’s finest getting into bed with each otherthe elite of Wall St teaming up with, and aligning themselves against, other private equity heavyweightsanother...
...Marriott, whose brands include Ritz-Carlton and Renaissance, said demand for timeshare resorts continues to be robust, particularly at its properties in Las Vegas, Maui, Phuket, and St Thomas....
...It has residential communities in Jupiter, Florida, St. Thomas in the Caribbean and Colorado’s Batchelor Gulch and Aspen, and sells eighth interests in the homes there....
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