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...That suspension of hostilities did have the benefit of ending litigation between the Public Investment Fund and the tour....
...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....
...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...
...Yet Uber is in talks to accept another $1bn for its self-driving venture from investors led by the SoftBank Vision Fund, whose majority backer is the Saudi Public Investment Fund....
...Blackstone Group, Starwood Capital, the Canadian pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are among the biggest borrowers on GSE commercial loans...
...“As Saudi Arabia’s capital markets evolve to match the size of the country’s economy, there is a prime potential for greater debt issuance,” said Meshari Al Khaled, managing director for S&P Global Ratings...
...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....
...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...
...The guys peddling non-traded REITs to dentists and the prime brokers working with hedge funds are both registered with Finra, and both are counted as “brokers” or “financial advisers” by Egan et al, but...
...the likes of China et al....
...We are better placed to decide how our money should be spent than governments, which take billions from the taxpayer and waste them on programmes like Medicare which lavish funds on unproductive older units...
...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...
...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....
...What is surprising is the failure of NYC pension fund trustees, the comptrollers office, consultants, auditors, pensioners et al to notice. Until now, Mr....
...According to a Debtwire article cited in the first-lien complaint it is the hedge funds who simultaneously bought the B-7 bank debt....
...TPG Capital is poised to announce it has raised an initial $5bn for its latest buyout fund, securing backing from long-time investors including the pension schemes of the State of Oregon and the State of...
...Still, he too felt the pull of the siren song: I luxuriated in the polemics of Marc Faber and James Grant and Nassim Taleb, in our own country, Albert Edwards, et al....
...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....
...Herbalife said: The company has been aggressively defending itself against the plaintiffs’ allegations set forth in Bostick v. Herbalife ever since the lawsuit was filed in 2013....
...(Bloomberg) Death of an idealist Ahmed al-Darawy went from Arab spring supporter to Isis fighter....
...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...
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
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