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...“The nature of regime change is that each attempt is idiosyncratic in nature . . . the [1991] August Coup led to the downfall of [the Soviet Union] within four months, but Stalin was in office 30 years.”...
...An investment of ¥1,000 in Japan’s Nikkei index would have grown to ¥1,270 over the past 30 years. Meanwhile, $1,000 invested in the US’s S&P 500 would now be worth $8,600....
...By Thursday, the S&P 500 index had erased those losses and in the bond market, prices fell and yields on the 30-year US Treasury were up nearly 2 per cent....
...Some clarity is expected from Mr Kuroda over how aggressively the BoJ will buy longer-dated JGBs with maturities over 25 years....
...Even the double-A-rated tranche — awarded the stellar rating by both Kroll and S&P — has slipped to a junk rating of double B....
...BlackRock’s $464m iShares S&P GSCI Commodity Indexed Trust, which is known as GSG and heavily weighted towards energy, has delivered a minus 44.8 per cent return this year....
...Twilio Sector: TECHNOLOGY / HQ: San Francisco, us Key stat: Daily sign-ups rose 25 per cent from March 18 to April 30 compared with the first 11 weeks of the year....
...in April....
...This implies that net valuation for Asian business is around £30.3bn in our sum of the parts....
...Finally, this April, an inquest jury found that the victims were unlawfully killed and did not contribute to the disaster....
...trusts, have rallied sharply....
...The technical summary, however, is that since some of Italy’s swaps, and other derivatives, are likely to be long-dated (e.g. 30 to 40 years), and hence they are likely to contain at least some break clauses...
...Eventually he decided he “wanted to do portraits but in the largest definition of the word. The subject gives me their trust.”...
...Taxation It is time that we complete the process that was started in 1991 for building a trust based, simple, neutral, tax system with almost no exemptions and low rates designed to promote voluntary compliance...
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