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...So that’s given them a significant petrodollar windfall, which, you know, obviously gives them surpluses to put into their sovereign investment funds, the sovereign wealth funds, et cetera....
...Funds poured into Wootton Cricket from companies and individuals, including at least £2mn from a United Arab Emirates government minister who is also a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Flanked by former vice-president Al Gore, New York governor Andrew Cuomo last year signed what he called “the most aggressive climate law in the United States of America”....
...A one-off payment of €1.2m was made by Georgian authorities as a “travel fund” to Henninghall Ltd, also set up in Ras Al Khaimah....
...He points out that only 2 per cent of waste water is recycled worldwide but reuse is expected to grow by 20 per cent a year....
...Thanks to a series of court rulings since the mid-2000s, such as eBay v MercExchange in 2007, Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories in 2012 and Alice Corp v CLS Bank in 2014, and the subsequent...
...Royal Dutch Shell is also ploughing into offshore wind farms, to the point that Henrik Poulsen, chief executive of Dong Energy, says he now regards both Shell and Statoil as “competitors”....
...“That’s why the United States is a leading advocate of greater transparency in these kinds of international financial transactions . . . which allows us to root out corruption and to fight efforts to get...
...bond flows identified by Feroli et al (2014)....
...Unsurprisingly, Greenspan et al believe China’s integration of its low-cost workforce and state-subsidised capital into the world economy over the past two decades has depressed prices everywhere....
...She is also working on her PhD, entering her third year as of September 2017....
...Courts in the United States sided with NML in finding a “creative” way to finally gain some leverage over the South American nation, which had long refused to make good on defaulted debt owned by the fund...
...(Financial Times) Loeb files lawsuit over Sotheby’s poison pill: His hedge fund Third Point is suing to remove a defensive measure Sotheby’s installed last October that prevents an activist investor acquiring...
...Today, many of the most recent Chinese graduates from top US universities prefer to stay in North America to work....
...paying NML et al, and without the stay in place....
...So why has there been so little reaction to reports that Abe et al might change the timing or scale of the consumption tax?...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...(Financial Times) US vulture funds swoop on Co-op debt: “Aurelius Capital Management and Silver Point Capital are understood to have built the stake in one set of the bank’s loans, putting them in a strong...
...At the same time, most of the data suggests that the economy bottomed in the third quarter....
...(Reuters) Spain draws down state pension fund: The crisis-hit country has been using the Social Security Reserve Fund, which guarantees future payments of pensions, as a buyer of last resort for its government...
...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...
...not in the United States, and therefore outside the scope of the court’s enforcement powers under the FSIA.”...
...Market fears of an imminent default were reflected by a jump in one-year credit default swaps, to 5,499 basis points, on Thursday....
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