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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....
...For example, the savings and loan sector in the United States was going bust throughout much of the 1980s before it became anything resembling a macro issue....
...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....
...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...
...The S&P 500 rose 0.7 per cent, helped by some encouraging earnings reports, after losing 2.7 per cent last week....
...lugging bags of cash on flights across the U.S” (WSJ) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +80.30 (+0.54%) at 14,911 Topix up +1.55 (+0.13%) at 1,208 Hang Seng up +53.18 (+0.24%) at 21,955 ASX...
...So why has there been so little reaction to reports that Abe et al might change the timing or scale of the consumption tax?...
...Markets: Most Asian stocks rose as President Barack Obama pulled the U.S. from the brink of a military strike against Syria. Energy producers led declines....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...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...
...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as the United Nations announced more than 7,500 civilians had been killed by his forces since the start of the revolt, Reuters reports. http://in.reuters.com/article...
...said it had won permission from President Bashar al- Assad’s government to enter a besieged Syrian town, hours after the United Nations Human Rights Council deplored “systematic violations of human rights...
...“God forbid, if any war took place between Pakistan and the United States, we will stand by Pakistan,” Mr. Karzai said....
...currency market to hold down the value of the renminbi, the FT reports....
...Here, the consequences of bad strategy were disastrous for Lehman, the United States, and the world. In 2003, President George W. Bush authorized the U.S. military to invade and conquer Iraq....
...US asked India for more data on fighter setback India has agreed to provide the United States with more information about its decision last week to drop two U.S. defence companies from an $11bn fighter competition...
...like Austria still leans towards Hungary, Romania, Croatia et al....
...In the United States, the database industry has grown more than 25-fold since 1979 and - contrary to those who paint the Feist case as a revolution - for that entire period, in most of the United States,...
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