Hints and tips:
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...David Brickman, head of multi-family at Freddie Mac, says: “I firmly reject the notion that we are contributing to a bubble....
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Ford later announced it was cutting 1,400 salaried jobs in North America and Asia and said it would move production of the Ford Focus, from Mexico to China — not the US....
...Paul Mortimer-Lee, Chief Economist of North America, BNP Paribas I expect the economy to expand somewhere in the range of 1.25 per cent to 1.5 per cent....
...- And Nick Rowe arguing against Borio et al’s objection to helicopter money....
...Funds may have sold out of Valeant, Apple et al before the rot set in....
...AstraZeneca has announced the terms of its acquisition of Dutch-US drug company Acerta Pharma. The UK group will buy 55 per cent of the equity of the cancer specialist for $2.5bn....
...I will remain extremely cautious until we have an unequivocal and practically implementable commitment by the government. David Blanchflower, Bruce V....
...In the Netflix world, Comcast et al still deliver the content, but they need to find a new way of getting paid....
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...The “back end” of the network – the part where Netflix connects to Comcast et al – would be a tightly-regulated telecoms service....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...in to transform the town by Walter Paepcke (at whose company, the Container Corporation of America, Austrian-born Bayer once headed the design department)....
...Democratic senator Al Franken, who opposed Comcast’s acquisition of NBCUniversal, has been the most vocal critic and has contacted regulators....
...Both companies suffered drops in quality perception and the number of consumers who would recommend the brand to friends....
...the Russian company....
...(Financial Times) EU proposals for Libor et al to be unveiled today: “[B]enchmarks that are deemed to be “critical” would be overseen by a college of national supervisors led by the Paris-based European...
...… Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, by Justin McGuirk, Verso, RRP£17.99 The most interesting architecture in the world is currently coming out of Latin America but...
...The regulator said US Bank accepted Peregrine funds from 2008 to July 2012 as security on loans it made to Wasendorf, his wife and his construction company as he built the broker new offices in Cedar Falls...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...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...
...For example, there are often construction risks that a project will be delayed or not finished, while other fund managers say governments need to guarantee these assets to make them even more appealing to...
...Can anyone imagine us nuking North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan or Pakistan without US agreement? Of course, if there were any firing to do the USA would do it.”...
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