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...The right move would probably be to go to Vanguard.com and buy a million bucks worth of the S&P 500 at an expense ratio of just four basis points....
...Over the past six months, the S&P 500 has actually risen slightly, and today it is trading at around April 2021 levels. Volatility has also returned to manageably moderate levels....
...“This is exactly the sort of consumer-harming, job-killing megamerger our antitrust laws were designed to prevent,” according to Letitia James, the New York attorney-general, who said it would “cause irreparable...
...Albeit late at night, when St James’s is emptier than a Thai cave following a successful rescue mission. Yours occasionally faithfully, Boris P.S....
...This is an edited extract from ‘The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology’, edited by William A Ewing and Barbara P Hitchcock, published by Thames & Hudson (£34.95); thamesandhudson.com...
...“It will be announced live on Tuesday at 8:00 P.M,” Mr Trump tweeted on Monday....
...He practised as a civil rights attorney and was a missionary in Honduras before being elected mayor of Richmond, the state’s governor and one of its two senators....
...But John Sugden, a senior director at S&P, says that while this is a “positive step”, it is not enough....
...There is not a lot of transparency on who is buying or selling art,” says Sharon Cohen Levin, head of the money laundering and asset forfeiture unit at the US Attorney’s office for the Southern District...
...Judge Thomas P Griesa has come down very hard on the idea of Argentina swapping its restructured bonds out of New York law into local law, in order to avoid paying holdouts alongside them....
...says James Cox, a law professor at Duke University. In fairness to S&P and the other agencies, their ratings have broadly performed well enough....
...Mr Ben-Artzi then contacted Jordan Thomas, a former SEC enforcement attorney now running a whistleblower practice at Labaton Sucharow, a New York firm....
...She e-mailed him at 5:37 p.m. with a draft of what the Fed would tell the world the next morning at 8 a.m....
...Good morning, New York… FT ALPHAVILLE A Basel III bunfight: On Wednesday, European finance ministers failed to agree legislation that would enshrine Basel III bank capital rules into law....
...Secondly, P & I Clubs based in London have long mutually insured and pooled risks which insurance intermediaries are unwilling or unable to take, and for 135 years a service provider, Thomas Miller, has...
...Mueller, III....
...Jim Ross, senior managing director at State Street Global Advisors – its SPDR S&P 500 ETF at $72bn is the world’s largest by asset size – is resigned to a regime of “appropriate regulation”, although his...
...Like other pro- growth autocrats, from Nebuchadnezzar to Napoléon III, China’s leaders like building....
...The first five board members to be subpoenaed, according to the source, are: William Barnet III, John Collins, Tommy Franks, Thomas May and Walter Massey....
...“We hope the oil law being discussed will allow this to happen.” Heritage closed 10.5 per cent lower at 540p....
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...5:30 p.m....
...Mark Thoma Glenn Hubbard: The Starr Foundation made a grant to Harvard Law School to support the research and meetings of the 22 members of the Committee, none of whom was paid for their Committee service...
...According to tax returns compiled by Thomas Picketty, an economist at Paris Jourdan Sciences Economiques, and Emmanuel Saez, an economist at Berkeley, the share of pre-tax income going to the top 1 per...
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