Hints and tips:
...“Companies have underdelivered the IPO promise,” said Tracy Dolin-Benguigui, a Barclays equity research analyst who covers insurance companies....
...He hasn’t announced a blank-cheque deal since January, when his Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp V announced a tie-up with the digital lender SoFi....
...And there's a lot about it in our FT colleague Charles Glover's book about Eurasianism, Black Wind, White Snow, about the weird history books Patrushev reads....
...Glover says this distinction allows conglomerate brands such as Gucci to feel safe signing its pledge: “That level of trust is there.”...
...Online shopping is about shipping Leslie Hook has visited an Amazon distribution centre in Tracy, California to get the lowdown on a company pushing logistics to its limits with same-day and one-hour delivery...
...Steeped in Zen and Sufi, influenced by Indian abstractionists such as V.S. Gaitonde as well as western modernists including Mondrian and Malevich, Mohamedi’s starting point was the grid....
...We suppose you’re probably looking at something like this and may v well already be washed out… We’ll come back to that chart in moment....
...What particularly struck our eye was the question of “How much better is Grand Theft Auto V than Grand Theft Auto IV?” (Tip of the hat to Tracy Alloway for highlighting this.)...
...Izzy cites SocGen research which asks whether EM outflows have only just begun, and wonders if taper tantrum V.2 has at least learned from taper tantrum V.1 that taper means the opposite of a US bond apocalypse...
...We told him there’s v little tolerance for reactions like that and he needs to tone it down.” Mr Smith did not respond to phone calls and emails seeking comment....
...Update – Tracy points out: “Free-mont… Two-thousand-and-six” appears to be a reference to Fremont, subprime lender and past headache for Goldman through the Fremont 2006-E RMBS....
...The enduring power of the histories, written by someone who had dwelled in various social worlds – small-town glover’s boy, grammar-school swot, common thespian – lies in the comprehensiveness of their vision...
...Fifteen years ago I wondered whether “this feeling of constant calculation is attributable to the character or the actor” (then Jamie Glover), but Dugald Bruce-Lockhart’s current performance indicates that...
...Related links: A fair (value) solution – Expect[ed] Loss Apples v apples – a new way to measure risk – Vikram Pandit Bank quandary: valuing assets – WSJ...
...Did Spencer Tracy have an affair with Katharine Hepburn? She: Of course they did. He: Says who, internet girl? Did you read it on Gawker? America was great when they weren’t an item....
...events is this case is quantitatively similar across country-sub-sample; iv) the reaction of CDS spreads to negative rating events has increased after the 15th of September 2008 Lehman Brothers bankruptcy; v)...
.... €4-5B INDICATED IN 3-MONTH AND 6-MONTH – Sells €2.09B in 3-month Bills; Avg Yield 1.743% v 0.951% prior; Bid-to-Cover: 2.3x v 2.77x prior – Sells €1.16B in 6-month Bills; Avg Yield 2.111% v 1.285%...
...Approximately one month after the ACA and IKB note purchases in April 2007, ABN AMRO N.V. (“ABN,” now owned by RBS) entered into a swap transaction referencing the ABACUS 2007-AC1 portfolio....
...local capital markets; iii) the strength of an infrastructure company’s banking group; iv) the likely political influence to reduce tariffs/extract value in other ways or impose discriminatory taxes; v)...
...The Bank’s previous issuance off its START platform was the US$1.0 billion START V CLO in July 2008. We bring it up because we expect to see a lot more of these....
...Stress tests v.2.0, that is. Late on Wednesday, the US Federal Reserve issued its guidelines for financials that want to start paying out dividends again....
...New round of liquidity injection can not substantially reverse the trend of increasing the federal government’s fiscal deficit and debt burden in the long term… V....
...Chicago, Walras v. Marshall, mindless econometrics v. mindless axiomatics, New Keynesians v....
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