Hints and tips:
...Small caps tend to be more volatile than blue-chip stocks both on the way up and down — and could be big medium-term winners if Kolanovic et al are right....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...US gas prices also had an eventful week: on Thursday CME Group took “emergency action” to maintain orderly trading on the Nymex commodity exchange, as wild price swings gave rise to fears of forced selling...
...nuclear power industry, and possible investments in the US by the Saudi Basic Industries Corp, Sabic....
...As Gorton et al (2007) explain it, “when inventories fall, spot prices will increase, signalling the scarcity of the commodity for immediate delivery…shocks to current inventories also raise futures prices...
...But, as Neil notes, things could have been worse without all that warehousing shenanigans from Goldman et al....
...(Financial Times) Saudi prince ‘refused’ to pay fee on Gaddafi jet sale: Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal, one of the world’s richest men, “simply refused” to pay $10m commission to a Jordanian businesswoman...
...The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was looking into the source of the hacking, while two financial regulators, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have also launched investigations...
...New rules by the US Securities and Exchange Commission that require companies to disclose payments related to individual projects, an implementation of provisions in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial regulation...
...New China Life kicks off wave of insurer listings New China Life Insurance, the country’s third-largest life insurer by premium income, has raised $1.9bn from an initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong...
...In 2007 Hufbauer et al. completed the third edition of their landmark study, looking at 204 “sanctions episodes” from the First World War through to 2006....
...While fixed income and commodities trading revenue fell $1.8bn from $2.7bn a year ago, the results marked a significant improvement from the fourth quarter, when the bank’s desks reported a loss of $29m....
...A judge in Regina v....
...of meeting our other objectives of a low carbon future and a secure future....
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