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...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...) at 1,540 FTSE100 up +26.70 (+0.36%) at 7,543 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,384 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,043 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.18) $/¥ 113.10 (112.92) £/$ 1.32 (1.32) €/£ 0.8938 (0.8925...
...Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Isis’s enigmatic leader, was declared caliph in a move the group said now required all Muslims around the world to pledge allegiance to him....
...€/$ 1.38 (1.38) $/¥ 103.00 (103.01) £/$ 1.63 (1.63) €/£ 0.8436 (0.8442) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.06 at 109.35 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.17 at 97.31 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00...
...(Financial Times) It’s quiet out there: “Trading volume on the major U.S. exchanges last month tumbled to its lowest level for May since the financial crisis....
...“The deal valuing the portfolio at about $2.7bn will give Blackstone a majority stake in apartment complexes with roughly 30,000 units in the southern United States, according to people familiar with the...
...The bank has sold or closed 52 businesses and announced 46,000 job cuts to eliminate $4bn of annual costs since CEO Stuart Gulliver took up the role in 2011....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...at 2,319 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.29% at 498.48 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.21% at 5,138 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 77.91 (77.68) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.41 at 110.44 Light Crude (Nymex)...
...at 2,319 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.09% at 496.55 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -0.05% at 5,046 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.29) $/¥ 76.87 (76.90) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.69 at 110.55 Light Crude (Nymex...
...That works out to about 557,000 barrels a day, the WSJ reports....
...The number of people in work fell by 14,000 to 13.1m....
...Italy V Ireland....
...Conference Call and Webcast Motorola will host a conference call today February 11, 2010 beginning at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time (USA) to discuss today’s announcement....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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