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...And finally Pablo Picasso’s Buste de femme accoudée, gris et blanc is on display at Sotheby’s on New Bond Street this week, ahead of the Modern and Contemporary auctions on Wednesday and Thursday....
...But it is also worth sounding a note of caution amid the gold rush....
...); (v) the EU taxonomy; and (vi) a possible carbon border tax....
...The fund ultimately invested in the late-stage start-up....
...of its investment funds....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Post-closing cock-ups have also popped up recently in the fight between Arconic and hedge fund Elliott as well as a few years ago when Al Jazeera America bought Al Gore’s Current TV....
...Unsurprisingly, Greenspan et al believe China’s integration of its low-cost workforce and state-subsidised capital into the world economy over the past two decades has depressed prices everywhere....
...Hip hop may have been telling us where the gold is for about 40 years but it can also teach us about the value of human capital....
...(Financial Times) Iraq’s prime minister Nouri al-Maliki struggled to maintain his grip on power with a Sunni insurgency swirling around the capital and political rivals inside Baghdad’s fortified Green...
...(Reuters, Al Jazeera — breaking at pixel) “Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest money market mutual fund manager, has sold all of its short-term U.S. government debt — the latest sign that investors...
...(Bloomberg) - How Goldman (et al)’s aluminium warehousing cost American consumers $5bn in three years. (New York Times) - The commodities supercycle is still ending....
...Kate argues that Verleger’s view of a hypothetical Saudi et al response to lower prices and/or production is compelling, in that it doesn’t follow that more prolific US oil supply will mean lower global...
...The FTSE All-World equity index is down 0.1 per cent as the dollar index rises fractionally and gold falls $5 to $1.662 an ounce....
...(Financial Times) CVC buys Cerved Group: “CVC Capital Partners, the European private equity group that is preparing to raise up to €11bn for a buyout fund this year, is to buy Cerved Group, a corporate...
...(FT The World blog) - Bill Gross’ total returns ETF outperformed Bill Gross’ total returns non-ET fund. (Bloomberg) - Congress’ problem with Huawei, in a nutshell....
...- Why the Acme Brick Company et al are Berkshire’s secret weapons....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...- Five hits from Scott Sumner, on the eurozone, FOMC, et al....
...Did Operation Twist manage to suppress some of the inflation-paranoia generated by the likes of Ron Paul, Zerohedge, Jim Rogers, Peter Schiff et al, who previously made an explicit point of calling QE “money...
...Parasite Capital, LP. Case closed. The populist rhetoric goes down well....
...Related links: Wall Street Pursues Profit in Bundles of Life Insurance – NY Times Are Life Settlements Securities? – Hedge Fund Law Blog...
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae (on behalf of) suing in NYC and DC: Bassman v. Syron, et. al (FRE) Agnes v....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
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