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...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....
...This morning, it reported “strong upward momentum” in average selling prices and a 700 basis point rise in margins in the second half – reflecting a continuing improvement in sales mix and quality of sites...
...A second study, Jones et al. (2011), analyzed a treatment for localized prostate cancer (an early stage of prostate cancer with a five-year survival rate on the order of 80 percent)....
...(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...
...Libya has been split by a civil war for 10 months and is in the middle of UN-brokered peace talks....
...(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....
...The Hong Kong-listed shares in the bank fell as much as 2.8 per cent to HK$108.10 in mid-morning trading....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...The depressing effect on real interest rates in the United States and other markets integrated with the US will depend on the scale of these capital inflows....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Naming and shaming in Japan: David notes another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...Bank of America said in the filing that it should only have to pay the amount it made in profit from selling the loans, which it contended was zero.”...
...(Bloomberg) Private investors have flocked to buy shares in Royal Mail, with 700,000 individual applications leaving the retail offer seven times subscribed in an echo of the privatisation frenzies of the...
...The rollout of iPhones on the world’s largest mobile carrier by users, with over 700 million subscribers, is expected to start later this month, around the time of a Dec. 18 China Mobile conference in Guangzhou...
...Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +1.25% at 967.67 Europe FTSE up -0.41% at 6,520 RTS up +2.00% at 1,373 Warsaw Wig up +1.06% at 47,213 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.35% at 1,226 Americas DJIA down -0.10%...
...(1.61) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.07 at 110.09 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.01 at 103.50 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,324 Copper (Comex) down -0.02 at 3.26 10-year government bond...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...at 2,041 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -1.01% at 481.66 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -0.34% at 5,256 Currencies €/$ 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...
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