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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....
...She then laundered and transferred the funds out of the country to support the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS”), which has been designated by the U.S....
...But this may all be overshadowed by the extent to which the world economy continues on a path of a synchronised slowdown and the impact from any worsening in trade relations between the United States and...
...A Pentagon think-tank spends roughly $300,000 a year interpreting the body language of foreign leaders while the US has spent $900m since 2007 trying to read the body language of passengers in airports....
...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...
...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...
...(Financial Times) GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to pay $105m to more than 40 US states to settle allegations of unlawful marketing, ending a long saga in which the UK company was accused of providing lavish...
...(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...
...defense and aerospace company and its business partner… Finmeccanica is 30% owned by the Italian state.”...
...(WaPo) Tesla grapples with impact of battery fire in U.S....
...(Financial Times) Sales of GlaxoSmithKline’s medicines in China are thought to have dropped 30 per cent since officials accused the UK pharmaceutical group of corruption....
...The bank has sold or closed 52 businesses and announced 46,000 job cuts to eliminate $4bn of annual costs since CEO Stuart Gulliver took up the role in 2011....
...down -0.54% at 483.03 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -0.48% at 5,914 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 95.74 (96.26) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.30 at 109.92 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.12 at 91.94 100...
...“The deal valuing the portfolio at about $2.7bn will give Blackstone a majority stake in apartment complexes with roughly 30,000 units in the southern United States, according to people familiar with the...
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...(Bloomberg) State Street investors want new blood at the top: Four of the 10 largest shareholders at State Street are agitating for the removal of the custody bank’s CEO Joseph “Jay” Hooley or CFO Edward...
...obliging the United States to come to Japan’s aid if attacked, a top U.S. diplomat said on Thursday, according to Reuters. http://reut.rs/VjUJzV US airs ad against film on Pakistan TV The US government...
...A similar 2009 study by Mikael Höök et al. found a production-weighted average decline rate of 5.5 percent per year. Other estimates have ranged as high as 8 percent....
...€/$ 1.29 (1.29) $/¥ 80.03 (79.93) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -1.99 at 110.27 Light Crude (Nymex) down -2.00 at 94.13 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,584...
...0.84% at 20,110 Shanghai Composite up +1.00% at 2,319 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.29% at 498.48 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.21% at 5,138 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 77.91 (77.68) Commodities Brent Crude...
...up +1.00% at 2,319 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.31% at 498.57 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.60% at 5,158 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 78.16 (77.68) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.26 at 109.77 Light Crude...
...That works out to about 557,000 barrels a day, the WSJ reports....
...at 2,319 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.09% at 496.55 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -0.05% at 5,046 Currencies €/$ 1.30 (1.29) $/¥ 76.87 (76.90) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.69 at 110.55 Light Crude (Nymex...
...€/$ 1.30 (1.30) $/¥ 78.00 (77.99) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.95 at 108.55 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.66 at 99.48 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -27.30 at 1,633...
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