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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....
...(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.”...
...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...
...be raised and where the official rate will end up in a couple of years’ time....
...Libya has been split by a civil war for 10 months and is in the middle of UN-brokered peace talks....
...(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....
...The Hong Kong-listed shares in the bank fell as much as 2.8 per cent to HK$108.10 in mid-morning trading....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...The depressing effect on real interest rates in the United States and other markets integrated with the US will depend on the scale of these capital inflows....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Naming and shaming in Japan: David notes another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +1.25% at 967.67 Europe FTSE up -0.41% at 6,520 RTS up +2.00% at 1,373 Warsaw Wig up +1.06% at 47,213 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.35% at 1,226 Americas DJIA down -0.10%...
...(Reuters, Al Jazeera — breaking at pixel) “Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest money market mutual fund manager, has sold all of its short-term U.S. government debt — the latest sign that investors...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...at 2,041 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -1.01% at 481.66 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -0.34% at 5,256 Currencies €/$ 1.25 (1.26) $/¥ 78.43 (78.38) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.08 at 114.10 Light Crude (...
...“[B]y being a passive investor in the $1.5bn equity investment in Cheniere led by Blackstone, alongside Government of Singapore Investment Corp, and the state of Louisiana, CIC hopes to avoid the sort of...
...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...
...India revises up trade gap estimate as exports struggle Indian imports continued to outpace exports in February as demand remained weak in major exports markets like the United States and Europe, nudging...
...of national unity and scorned Gulf nations for walking out of a peace mission in protest at the behaviour of president Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/20250018-4683...
...Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index down -1.70% at 935.81 Europe FTSE down -1.10% at 5,364 RTS down -1.26% at 1,494 Wig Index down -0.66% at 39,534 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.66% at 951.49 Americas...
...Sheikh Mohammed bin Essa Al Khalifa, chief executive of the Economic Development Board, says “a significant portion of the GCC funds” have arrived in the past few weeks, referring to the first elements...
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