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...These and other closures, particularly those at bigger exchanges, have reduced liquidity in complex options transactions involving the Vix volatility index or the S&P 500 index of US stocks, said Anthony...
...Bowling Green, an unwitting byword for fake news in a once-blue, red state, seemed a good place to start....
...Finland’s state pension scheme plans to invest another $500m this year, and the State Universities Retirement System of Illinois is jumping in with $500m for its first hedge fund allocation....
...United States of Japan, by Peter Tieryas, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99/$14.99 Sometimes you just feel the need for a story about giant robots, virtual reality and sumo wrestlers....
...As Wall Street banks scale back, the world’s biggest exchange group racks up operating margins of 60 per cent....
...What US state has the largest state-supported debt per capita? A) Illinois B) California C) New Jersey D) Connecticut E) New York D) Connecticut 22....
...Market sentiment had been better in earlier trading following a rebound on Wall Street. The S&P 500 rose 0.7 per cent, helped by some encouraging earnings reports, after losing 2.7 per cent last week....
..., even bigger fight in the streets of Hong Kong....
...US index futures showed the S&P 500 easing by 2 points to 1,697. Brent crude was down 39 cents to $108.82 a barrel....
...Meg Babs and four friends are pumping quarters into an automated parking meter on Clark Street, two blocks from Chicago City Hall....
...Most people think of Wall Street as the home of financial trading in the US, if not the world. But many important contracts – in particular futures and options – are traded in Chicago....
...Topshop, still a darling of the UK fashion scene, has three other US stores – New York, Chicago and Las Vegas – but this is Sir Philip’s first in Los Angeles, a fashion hub and the heart of the entertainment...
...Gideon Rachman ——————————————- HISTORY Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: The United States and Iran in the Cold War, by Roham Alvandi, Oxford University Press, RRP£35.99/$55 Knowledge of the 1970s, when...
...He won with help of a unmatched grass-roots campaign and his direct appeal to a broad cross-section of America’s ever-changing demographics....
...” of planned tax cuts which the winner of Nov 6′s poll will somehow have to climb by doing a deal with Republicans in Congress....
...Columbus 22.21: Jamie Chisholm, the FT’s global markets commentator, is the earliest of the early birds, sending us this update on US stock futures from pre-dawn London: “S&P 500 futures drop to session...
...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...
...Since its launch this year, anyone can download the “Obama for America” app and see the party affiliation of many of their neighbours, with the ages and exact addresses thrown in for good measure....
...In 1973, with blaxploitation films pimp-rolling through cinemas, he released Hustlers Convention, a tale of America’s hippest street cats descending on Chicago for a kind of badass Olympics featuring dice...
...In the 1984 case, Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, the US Supreme Court ruled that, while speech is a protected right, overnight camping is not....
...No surprise then that the S&P financials index began the trading week cheaply valued and was on course to close at even lower prices as fear of the unknown remains the dominant sentiment....
...On the Chicago streets the human ape is alive and well. Either that or mad, bad, irredeemable and possibly dead....
...The S&P 500 saw six straight weeks of losses from the start of May, the longest run of declines since June and July 2008....
...Bank of America was the biggest faller in the S&P 500, its shares closing down 7.9 per cent at $6.42, as financials in the S&P 500 lost 1.3 per cent, more than any other sector....
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