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...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...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....
...Mian et al also found that the states to deregulate first weren’t more volatile than the rest of America back in the 1960s or 1970s, nor can their findings be explained by the big drop in the oil price in...
...The index recorded its longest losing streak in 14 years after ending August in negative territory — its sixth straight month of declines. The Japanese yen was flat against the greenback at ¥110.00....
...In other major currencies, the moves are muted, with the Japanese yen 0.1 per cent softer at ¥110.57 per dollar and the euro off 0.1 per cent to $1.1268 ahead of the European Central Bank’s monetary policy...
...The euro is too young a currency to give up so soon the standard of having a single Treasury curve, as in the United States of America....
...Some people didn’t appreciate Alphaville’s recent comparison of Greece’s economic performance since 2007 with that of the United States during the Great Depression, which implied the Greek government missed...
...Sahara owns all of the Grosvenor House plus 70 per cent of the Plaza hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York — in which Saudi Prince al-Waleed bin Talal owns a minority stake — and 85 per cent of the Dream Downtown...
...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...borrowers owe remarkably little of their dollar debt to banks or investors that reside in the United States.”...
...(FT) Naive, fleeced and bamboozled All words used to greet US secretary of state John Kerry when he tried to persuade a sceptical Congress to get behind the Iran nuclear deal....
...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....
...(FT) Protests and deaths on anniversary of Egypt uprising At least17 people were killed yesterday in the bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected, as security forces fired at protesters...
...While in New York he talked about Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of his country’s state oil company PDVSA, which is supposedly up for sale....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...Think off-duty LA – Victoria Beckham, Kim Kardashian et al scurrying from jeep to studio backdoor to avoid the paparazzi. Owner Barry Jay opened the first Bootcamp studio in West Hollywood in 1998....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...at 104.33 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,265...
...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...
...(Financial Times) “U.S. prosecutors are seeking more than $13 billion from Bank of America to resolve federal and state investigations of the lender’s sale of bonds backed by home loans in the run-up to...
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