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...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s plenty more in the BIS note too, of course, including the fact that while “dollar credit to non-banks outside the United States represents about 17 per cent of non-US GDP” (or $9.8tn) while “non-US...
...(Bratsberg et al. 2002)....
...scheme, customers would use local currency to buy an equivalent amount of digital cash – “Internet dollars”, say – from a bank....
...Indonesia’s currency added 0.4 percent versus the dollar before the result of presidential elections is announced. Corn slumped 1.3 percent on U.S. production. Natural gas slid 1.9 percent.”...
...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...
...Las Bambas in Peru is one of the world’s largest mines under construction, expected to supply about 450,000 tonnes of copper annually....
...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.”...
...(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...
...Resource-linked currencies were soft, the Australian dollar was easing 17 pips to $0.9412.The cautious tone was encouraging the purchase of US Treasuries, pushing 10-year yields down 1 basis point to 2.69...
...paying NML et al, and without the stay in place....
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...(WaPo) Tesla grapples with impact of battery fire in U.S....
...In the United States, women hold about 14 percent of executive officer positions and 17 percent of board seats, numbers that have barely budged over the past decade....
...It now has a record 12.9 percent share of goods imported by the United States, just short of China....
...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...
...In the IEA’s recent forecast, another 500,000 new shale gas wells might be drilled by 2035, doubling the number of producing gas wells in America....
...China steps up condemnation of U.S. over Taiwan arms China stepped up its condemnation of the United States on Thursday for selling arms to Taiwan saying they could disrupt military exchanges, a warning...
...defence Brazil has intervened to defend its plunging currency, the real, against a resurgent dollar for the first time in two years, in a sudden reversal of policy for Latin America`s largest economy, the...
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...The number of people in work fell by 14,000 to 13.1m....
...There is no straight line to progress, and hardship always accompanies a season of hope. But the United States of America was founded on the belief that people should govern themselves....
...$200,000) and a series of hand-made prints by the Puerto-Rico based duo Allora & Calzadilla (“Intermission Halloween Iraq V”, $70,000)....
...While the U.S....
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