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...“5-S”, of course. At London Stock Exchange, however, chief executive Xavier Rolet is saying C U L8R and thanks 4 the near-merger....
...or ‘V’ shaped recovery,” said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank....
...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...0.00 (0.00%) at 10,230 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 119.73 (120.03) £/$ 1.56 (1.56) €/£ 0.7311 (0.7332) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.23 at 48.85 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.50 at 46.40...
...A Pentagon think-tank spends roughly $300,000 a year interpreting the body language of foreign leaders while the US has spent $900m since 2007 trying to read the body language of passengers in airports....
...0.00 at 1,221...
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...In June, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency noted that the average amount of an auto loan was greater than the value of the car during the fourth quarter of 2013, as lenders bundled the costs...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...markets Eurofirst 300 down -0.03 (0.00%) at 1,375 FTSE100 down -17.67 (-0.26%) at 6,819 CAC 40 down -2.69 (-0.06%) at 4,501 Dax up +6.93 (+0.07%) at 9,927 Currencies €/$ 1.36 (1.36) $/¥ 102.54 (102.73)...
...the U.S....
...(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...
...(Financial Times) “Bank of America said it does not owe the U.S. government the $2.1 billion it is seeking in penalties after a jury found the bank liable for fraud over defective mortgages sold by its...
...(+0.96%) at 15,298 Topix up +6.64 (+0.54%) at 1,230 Hang Seng up +69.39 (+0.30%) at 23,184 US markets S&P 500 up +11.22 (+0.63%) at 1,787 DJIA up +129.21 (+0.82%) at 15,885 Nasdaq up +28.54 (+0.71%) at...
...(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...
...The indicative range was HK$3.00-HK$3.58 a share.”...
...(FastFT) “Alibaba has led a $206 million investment in [ShopRunner] a rival to Amazon.com one of its biggest U.S. moves as the Chinese e-commerce giant considers an initial public offering here.”...
...The pre-emptive step aims to avoid stricter EU conditions on state support to banks and a £471,000 cap on executive pay....
...(WaPo) Tesla grapples with impact of battery fire in U.S....
...“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...
...The PBoC and financial institutions sold a net Rmb41.2bn ($6.71bn) worth of foreign currency in June compared with net purchases of Rmb66.86 in May, according to WSJ calculations based on PBoC data....
...(Financial Times) Bankia purges 800 of its 1,000 external directors across its network of industrial holdings as the nationalised Spanish bank removes politicians and trade unionists it paid to sit on the...
...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....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...US futures suggest Wall Street’s S&P 500 will slip 2 points from its latest five-year high of 1,472.6....
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