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...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...
...But America is the dominant producer of dollars. In oil, they'd call it the "swing producer." Basically, around 1980 the United States discovered that it was the Saudi Arabia of money....
...There's evidence of the Alphaville team in several places today -- not just here on the blog, but also in the Palace of Westminster where Izabella Kaminska will give evidence on digital currencies to the...
...tours of North America and Asia....
...The first employer-sponsored pension plan in Canada was introduced in 1874 (Gale et al., 2006). By contrast, some countries have only recently introduced private pension plans....
...Mian et al also found that the states to deregulate first weren’t more volatile than the rest of America back in the 1960s or 1970s, nor can their findings be explained by the big drop in the oil price in...
...The euro is too young a currency to give up so soon the standard of having a single Treasury curve, as in the United States of America....
...Some people didn’t appreciate Alphaville’s recent comparison of Greece’s economic performance since 2007 with that of the United States during the Great Depression, which implied the Greek government missed...
...But in the current state: “It’s hard for that [China-specific proposal] to compete with things that have [more of] a global impact.”...
...up +4.88 (+0.36%) at 1,355 FTSE100 up +9.77 (+0.15%) at 6,354 CAC 40 up +22.47 (+0.50%) at 4,529 Dax up +46.23 (+0.46%) at 10,167 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 108.89 (108.81) £/$ 1.43 (1.43) €/£ 0.7906...
...According to Egan et al, the chance any given doctor is sued for malpractice in any given year is quite low, comparable to the probability a random financial adviser is penalised for wrongdoing....
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...Around 300 Libyan nationals who had fought for Isis in Syria were sent back to north Africa as part of the initial phase of the operation....
...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...borrowers owe remarkably little of their dollar debt to banks or investors that reside in the United States.”...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...down -0.57 (-0.04%) at 1,612 FTSE100 down -24.36 (-0.35%) at 6,937 CAC 40 down -14.33 (-0.28%) at 5,137 Dax down -87.66 (-0.72%) at 12,036 Currencies €/$ 1.08 (1.08) $/¥ 120.18 (120.12) £/$ 1.49 (1.49)...
...Bilinski et al then took the foundation to court, saying it had destroyed the potential $40m value of their works by branding them as “fakes”....
...(FT) Forex woes deepen for UBS and Barclays The US Department of Justice is scrutinising currency-linked investments marketed by the two banks....
...(FT) Video of the day Martin Wolf on Grexit The Greek state is running out of cash and there may be no rescue this time. Martin Wolf talks about what happens in the case of a default....
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...Angels Karlie Kloss, Doutzen Kroes, Lily Aldridge et al fly into London for the first Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show on British soil (@victoriasecret)....
...A Pentagon think-tank spends roughly $300,000 a year interpreting the body language of foreign leaders while the US has spent $900m since 2007 trying to read the body language of passengers in airports....
...Ali al-Naimi, Saudi oil minister, said: “The lack of co-operation from other producers outside Opec and the spread of misleading information and speculation led to the continuation of the drop in prices....
...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...
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