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...up until Venezuela’s US bank accounts were transferred to Guaidó)....
...Ganieva’s monthly bank statements showed a payment from “E Trust”, with no further identification of the sender....
...Brazil’s central bank is also expected to raise its benchmark Selic lending rate to rein in surging inflation in Latin America’s largest economy....
...Global stocks rose ahead of the hearing. (FT) Earnings Bank of America and Goldman Sachs follow JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo last week and report fourth-quarter earnings on Tuesday....
...Much of the funding came principally from Kohn in Philadelphia and Burford, which operated at least part in the United States. Absent the US activity, there would have been no scheme.”...
...The United States has surged ahead of us, though....
...The promissory notes are guaranteed by PDVSA Petróleo, a subsidiary that receives payments of about $30m a day from buyers of Venezuelan oil in several bank accounts situated outside Venezuela, which Mr...
...Ashtead is one of many US-focused companies no doubt relieved that Hurricane Irma veered away from Miami at the last moment yesterday....
...multi-currency bank account....
...“There are no established quotas from which to enforce a freeze or a cut. There is no enforcement mechanism in place to ensure that parties to a deal abide by its terms,” said Barclays....
...It is not immediately obvious that there will be closer economic ties with the United States, although Trump may well aim for that....
...The US central bank announced a quarter-point increase in the target range for the federal funds rate to 0.25-0.5 per cent, lifting it from the historic lows it has occupied since December 2008....
...This country had a sovereign debt crisis in both 1982 and 1994, the first of which threatened to leave a number of American banks insolvent, including Citicorp and Bank of America, if the banks had not agreed...
...(Aeon) In drug abuse, women at greater risk As opiate abuse swells in the United States, women are particularly at risk....
...At a publicity event in London last week author Michael Lewis professed “no great antipathy to the high-frequency traders exploiting the problem” of the US equity market....
...(Bloomberg) Nomura The Japanese bank goes on trial in the first case from a barrage of lawsuits alleging banks were at fault for packaging bad mortgages into securities....
...When Vladimir Putin undermined the strategic state of Ukraine, Europe stood and watched. Part of the problem is that nations have no chill-up-your-spine loyalty to Europe....
...Prices for a $1.25bn bond that matures in 2023 had fallen below 50 cents this year but rose to 53 cents on the dollar on Wednesday while a $500m bond due in September rose from 58 cents to more than 64 cents...
...The US has previously used its veto on the UN Security Council to protect Israel from resolutions critical of its treatment of Palestinians, but it says that was based on the ultimate scenario of a two-state...
...(FT) In the news HSBC’s Swiss secrets leaked Leaked secret bank account files have revealed how HSBC’s Swiss private bank helped customers avoid taxes and conceal billions of dollars of assets, in some...
...scheme, customers would use local currency to buy an equivalent amount of digital cash – “Internet dollars”, say – from a bank....
...By Timothy Ash of Standard Bank The crisis in Ukraine shows no sign of abating any time soon....
...The MAS said the 19, which include UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank – as well as Commerzbank, which was not required to hand over money – had done enough to help...
...In June, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency noted that the average amount of an auto loan was greater than the value of the car during the fourth quarter of 2013, as lenders bundled the costs...
...(Financial Times) Google’s UK operation paid £20.4m of corporation tax on its profits in 2013, according to accounts filed at Companies House on Thursday....
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