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...She’d given him a chance, despite his C$10,000-per-month fee, because, as she told me, he had public relations and TV experience as well as a Harvard degree....
...Alan Greenspan, for instance, faced a stock market crash just two months after he was sworn in under Ronald Reagan in 1987....
...The US dollar, meanwhile, was up 0.5 per cent against its Canadian namesake on Tuesday at C$1.2771....
...Back in 2007, in the brief period between his retirement from the Fed and the onset of the financial crisis, Alan Greenspan wrote extensively about the impact of demographics on asset prices, wages, and...
...It is unlikely that he will go much further unless a) financial crisis intervenes b) the election is brought forward or c) war is declared....
...Oliver Jones, Economist, Fathom Consulting c) succeed in cutting spending, but revenues will fall short The Chancellor has been relatively successful at achieving spending cuts so far (recent events aside...
...Alan Clarke, Economist, Scotiabank Just by announcing the date of the referendum is likely to have an impact on the data....
...His sheriffs would have been in charge of prosecution and probation as well. He is sorry too that his name never made it. “I used the term sheriff not to be American....
...Definitely heartening for bulls is the performance of transport stocks this month, with the Dow Jones Transportation Average up about 10 per cent and at a record high, handily outpacing the S&P 500’s gain...
...There was a tasselled tan waistcoat, a shining sheriff’s star, a brown and white holster and a golden, long-barrelled gun....
...After she reported the conversation on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell eighty-five points within minutes....
...“It is an amazing find,” says Alan Hart, head of mineralogy at London’s Natural History Museum....
...Alan Buckle, its global deputy chairman, predicts that the UK will be overtaken by the end of 2013. At Ernst & Young, the gap is even smaller....
...Analysts Edward Jones & Co said that if Pepsi imitated Kraft’s split, the individual companies would be more valuable, with shareholders standing to gain 49 per cent....
...The Peacock Cloak , by Chris Beckett, NewCon Press RRP£10.99, 240 pages A stunning short story collection from the winner of the 2013 Arthur C Clarke Award (for last year’s Dark Eden )....
...Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China, was quoted on Monday as telling Dow Jones in London that Beijing had expressed “quite full support” for Ms Lagarde....
...The iShares Dow Jones US Health Care exchange-traded fund is up almost 10 per cent since the beginning of January, easily outpacing the S&P 500, which has advanced by almost 3 per cent....
...RURAL AFFAIRS Minister of State – James Paice MP (C) DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Minister of State – Alan Duncan MP (C) NORTHERN IRELAND Minister of State – Hugo Swire MP (C) LAW OFFICERS...
...Last week Stanford replaced his civil litigation defense team with a group of lawyers from the little-known Washington, D.C.-based law firm The Gulf Law Group....
...The S&P finished down 3.5 per cent at 743.33 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 3.4 per cent lower at 7,114.78, which means the two major indices have lost more than a decade of gains....
...The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns , by Alan C Greenberg, Simon & Schuster RRP$26 When Bear Stearns had to be rescued by JPMorgan Chase in the spring of 2008, it became Wall Street’s first victim of the...
...Alan Beattie...
...Kalif Omari Jones embodied poignant innocence as a child slave, and Roosevelt Credit executed minstrel-show charades with gusto....
...Though Mr Rudd shrinks from the title accorded to Mr Howard – the US’s “deputy sheriff” in Asia – he is eager to quash any notion that China and the US are competing for attention....
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