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...But America is the dominant producer of dollars. In oil, they'd call it the "swing producer." Basically, around 1980 the United States discovered that it was the Saudi Arabia of money....
...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....
...Japan’s Topix was picking up in afternoon trading, gaining 0.1 per cent. Currencies were stabilising after a drop in the US dollar....
...number of new attractive retail markets in London and the wealthiest catchment areas in the United States....
...unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,431 Currencies €/$ 1.12 (1.12) $/¥ 102.04 (102.09) £/$ 1.32 (1.32) €/£ 0.8496 (0.8492) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.39 at 46.20 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.33...
...(0.00%) at 5,071 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +29.31 (+2.08%) at 1,441 FTSE100 up +129.76 (+2.16%) at 6,148 CAC 40 up +99.31 (+2.15%) at 4,724 Dax up +220.53 (+2.11%) at 10,690 Currencies €/$ 1.09...
...borrowers owe remarkably little of their dollar debt to banks or investors that reside in the United States.”...
...(-0.47%) at 5,083 Dax down -84.13 (-0.72%) at 11,521 Currencies €/$ 1.09 (1.09) $/¥ 124.00 (124.06) £/$ 1.56 (1.56) €/£ 0.7003 (0.7002) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.02 at 56.11 Light Crude...
...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...
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...Libya has been split by a civil war for 10 months and is in the middle of UN-brokered peace talks....
...The Hong Kong-listed shares in the bank fell as much as 2.8 per cent to HK$108.10 in mid-morning trading....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...The depressing effect on real interest rates in the United States and other markets integrated with the US will depend on the scale of these capital inflows....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Naming and shaming in Japan: David notes another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +1.25% at 967.67 Europe FTSE up -0.41% at 6,520 RTS up +2.00% at 1,373 Warsaw Wig up +1.06% at 47,213 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.35% at 1,226 Americas DJIA down -0.10%...
...(Reuters, Al Jazeera — breaking at pixel) “Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest money market mutual fund manager, has sold all of its short-term U.S. government debt — the latest sign that investors...
...According to Moody’s, the issuance rebound has been particularly strong in North America, jumping from $2.1bn in the first half of 2012 to $21.7bn....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...-4.70 at 329.00 10-year government bond yields (%) US 1.70% UK 1.73% Germany 1.24% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe +0.92bps at 101.74bp Markit iTraxx Europe +0.61bps at 111.57bp...
...First-quarter trade with the US rose by 10.8 per cent from a year earlier, but China’s trading with the EU fell 1.9 per cent to $124.4bn....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Currencies €/$ 1.28 (1.28) $/¥ 81.25 (81.40) £/$ 1.59 (1.59) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.10 at 111.60 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.22 at 89.06 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,734...
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