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...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...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....
...number of new attractive retail markets in London and the wealthiest catchment areas in the United States....
...Average selling prices have exceeded £273,000 per unit for the first time in the company’s history....
...Also in the US, payrolls data is due to be released later on Friday. Economists expect US hiring cooled in August with forecasts of 178,000 jobs created in the month....
...Living in Celebration, a small town of about 7,000 souls in central Florida, is like being back in the 1950s, says Anne Lucas, a 74-year-old resident. Some of her neighbours describe it as The Bubble....
...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)....
...According to Egan et al, the chance any given doctor is sued for malpractice in any given year is quite low, comparable to the probability a random financial adviser is penalised for wrongdoing....
...Akzo Nobel has warned of a “challenging” market environment as the Dutch paints and chemicals company said revenues were down 4 per cent to €3.43bn in the first quarter, because of “adverse currency effects...
...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...
...be raised and where the official rate will end up in a couple of years’ time....
...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....
...The prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (Isis), which operates in Iraq and neighbouring...
...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...
...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...
...When operations are combined, the new company will produce 65,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, 70% of it crude, said Energy XXI Chairman and Chief Executive John Schiller on Wednesday.”...
...(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...
...(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...
...Butter, for example, is increasingly scarce in Tehran and, where available, its price has doubled in the past few weeks, from 11,000 rials ($0.44) for 100 grammes to 22,000 rials. http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics...
...“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...
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...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...
...-0.42% at 13,036 S&P 500 down -0.12% at 1,405 Bovespa down -1.83% at 56,234 Asia Nikkei 225 down -0.65% at 8,719 Topix down -0.85% at 720.50 Hang Seng down -1.13% at 19,211 Shanghai Composite down -0.12%...
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