Hints and tips:
...“A degree of jadedness has entered markets,” says Stacy Williams, strategist at HSBC....
...The “Costs of War” project by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies conservatively estimates the two wars will cost $3.2tn....
...In a previous incarnation as a senior research analyst at Watson Wyatt, she testified before the subcommittee on social security of the House Committee on Ways and Means (phew) on what the US could learn...
...“Quite right Watson,” he said, with worrying enthusiasm. “Fear not. I’m on the case.”...
...Some analysts, for example, now think Citigroup alone will soon reveal cumulative 2007 write-downs of $22bn (a sum, as my colleague Stacy-Marie Ishmael points out, that tops the entire gross domestic product...
...“These start with a basis point charge on the value of assets under custody,” says Stacy Scarpino, head of custody consulting at Mercer Investment Consulting ....
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