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...The sale is expected to be the first in a series of transactions to reduce its risk-weighted assets and comes a week after Barclays chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan laid out an ambitious plan to return...
...I trust the MPC will make the right choices. Matthew Ryan: We do not see a return to the Bank of England's 2 per cent inflation target in a sustainable manner in 2024....
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be over £5tn compared to a GDP of c£2tn....
...C climate catastrophe....
...inflation of luxury assets....
...For example, F&C Private Equity aims to return 4 per cent of its net assets every year to shareholders via a dividend, while Apax Global Alpha returns 5 per cent....
...Consider one of the most fundamental tools of US airline credit, the enhanced equipment trust certificate. These are, basically, sliced-up leases secured by aeroplanes....
...Recall that the biggest players managed to endure the collapse of the repo markets in 2007-8 with aplomb. Besides, even investors who don’t think they use leverage are still using leverage....
...In a study of thousands of individual businesses, the researchers found that, since 2007, the gap between the rates of return on capital earned by the best firms and the rates earned by the worst firms has...
...enterprises since 2007....
...staying with the state; and (b) the promised rate of return from these projects being marginally above the cost of capital, as opposed to the 20-25 per cent returns promised by the power companies that went...
...Worldwide, about 4.4 million women and girls are trapped in the sex trade....
...Another was its top-tier infrastructure, which was further enhanced by the Lugano-based parent company Arkos Capital’s recent decision to sell itself to GAM, the $48bn Zurich-based global asset manager....
...This builds on the allocation to Fidelity Strategic Real Return fund, added in 2007....
...Then Hayward pointedly asked him: “What can I do to gain your trust?” Carville replied: “To be frank with you Mr Hayward, not very much.”...
...RBS is now being restructured and is rebuilding. Last week Lloyds predicted a return to profitability this year....
...During 2008-09, NREGA provided employment opportunities for more than 4.47 crore households as against 3.39 crore households covered in 2007-08....
...The average saving, since October, for the 4 ½ million families with tracker mortgages is over £230 a month....
...The reduction in CO2 equivalents generates significant new revenues through the sale of tradable CDM certificates....
...We embarked on selling our non-automotive assets, which like GM today, were considerable. 4....
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