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...Then it was Lily Allen playing Jenny, the young mother who is convinced her house is haunted and tries to persuade her husband to believe her, while the two host a dinner party....
...From Meret Oppenheim’s furry teacup to Salvador Dalí’s Mae West-lips sofa, the joy in sex and subversion oozes through its artefacts, some intended for use, others for provocation, most for both....
...(FT) Pandemic speeds up overhauls at law firms The health crisis has forced legal sector employers to rethink how they look after employees, says a managing partner at Allen & Overy....
...Unlike Fannie Mae, most issuers to date have dabbled with the market just once and not returned....
...Indoors and out, red plastic sofas shaped like hot lips recall Dalí’s sofa modelled on Mae West’s pouting smile....
...Previous deals have included cyber security group Imperva ($2.1bn), data visualisation company Qlik ($3bn) and mortgage software group Ellie Mae ($3.7bn)....
...News round-up Santander shocks market with bond decision (FT) Thoma Bravo to buy mortgage software group Ellie Mae (FT) Ineos boss Ratcliffe slams EU over ‘foolish’ taxes (FT) France calls for biggest...
...The US market is dominated by state and local government borrowers and other agencies, such as Fannie Mae, which topped the Climate Bonds Initiative’s US issuer charts last year, raising $25bn of green-labelled...
...it was “the tightest [sovereign pricing] in living memory”; the only other issuer he could think of which has recently achieved a narrower spread over Treasuries is US mortgage guarantee agency Fannie Mae...
...More than half of the Federal Reserve’s $4.47tn balance sheet consists of US Treasuries, with mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by government agencies such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac making up a further...
...He will be based in New York and joins from Allen & Overy. Raymond James is opening a new office in London to expand its global technology & services investment banking practice....
...The Trump Organization entities would be conveyed to a trust before January 20, with leadership and management relinquished to his sons as well as long-serving executive Allen Weisselberg, she said....
...Holmes is as scrappy as she is naive in the role of rootless, uneducated Rita, who stumbles on a waitress job and tries to settle in a small town in upstate New York for the sake of Ruthie (Stefania Owen...
...Kate Allen is the FT’s property correspondent Illustration by James Fryer...
...Eventually, rescue came in the form of John Maxwell, who was front-of-house manager at Joe Allen in its late-1970s heyday when it was a show business institution....
...There have already been cries of “Fannie Mae!” as commentators remember the disastrous housing bubble in the US. But were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac really responsible for driving up house prices?...
...The lipsticks are phallic, the pout is provocative and, in Allen Jones’s lady-as-coffee-table, we have an unsettling image of domestic submission, the flipside of all those kitchen devices....
...Their roots lie in the Great Depression, when Franklin D Roosevelt set up the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)....
...But while senior financiers have been hauled off in handcuffs since 2008, this has generally not been due to credit bubble issues (think, for example, about Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford, Raj Rajaratnam,...
...The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting, by Alan Greenspan, Allen Lane RRP£25/Penguin Press RRP$36, 400 pages It was my privilege to work closely with Alan Greenspan...
...Chris Allen, an analyst at Ticonderoga Securities in New York, said that volumes were likely to be slow at first. “This will probably be something of a ‘soft launch’,” he said....
...James Allen, head of capital markets policy for the CFA Institute, contributed to this article...
...A reader of our daily missives reminded us last week that as for the current non-fundamentally based situation, we might want to reference the beginning of Annie Hall when Woody Allen tells the joke about...
...Donald Judd and Isamu Noguchi both produced classics decades ago (see below), while Salvador Dalí was famously inspired by Mae West to make his lips sofa....
...In the United States, the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were placed into conservatorship, and Lehman Brothers Holdings and several other large financial institutions either...
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