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...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...
...(FT) Video of the day Martin Wolf on Grexit The Greek state is running out of cash and there may be no rescue this time. Martin Wolf talks about what happens in the case of a default....
...(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....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...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...
...(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...
...in a restive district in the state of Uttar Pradesh where at least 26 people, including a television camera man and a police photographer, were killed in a weekend of deadly communal riots between Hindus...
...Although contrast GMO et al: That’s rather more convoluted. In fact, it’s a recipe for a sovereign bankruptcy regime in US courts....
...China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington...
...(-0.18%) at 3,017 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +7.23 (+0.66%) at 1,102 FTSE100 up +32.90 (+0.56%) at 5,865 CAC 40 up +23.86 (+0.70%) at 3,450 Dax up +64.71 (+0.94%) at 6,974 Currencies €/$ 1.23 (...
...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...
...Index down -1.04% at 937.53 Europe FTSE down -0.13% at 5,665 RTS down -0.99% at 1,392 Warsaw Wig up +0.34% at 41,602 FTSE 300 Eurotop up +0.20% at 1,081 Americas DJIA down -0.42% at 13,036 S&P 500 down...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
.... http://on.ft.com/Nap5TF Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up 0.00% at 967.47 Europe FTSE down -0.20% at 5,797 RTS up +0.35% at 1,439 Warsaw Wig down -0.35% at 41,025 FTSE 300 Eurotop up +0.12%...
...Syria hit by diplomatic defection as UN battles divisions Syria’s ambassador to Iraq defected on Wednesday in protest over President Bashar al-Assad’s violent suppression of a 16-month uprising as the...
...at 21,017 Shanghai Composite up +0.20% at 2,355 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +1.39% at 523.27 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.52% at 5,211 Currencies €/$ 1.33 (1.34) $/¥ 82.84 (82.85) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE)...
...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...
...+0.50% at 9,045 Topix up +0.60% at 786.35 Hang Seng down 0.00% at 20,887 Shanghai Composite down -0.58% at 2,338 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.29% at 520.45 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.34% at 5,409 Currencies...
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