Hints and tips:
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...There’s not much precedent to support the idea that Shina et al can walk away based on a MAC clause: WPP was forced against its will to buy Tempus in 2001, Guy Hands couldn’t scrap a bid for East Surrey...
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...“We think it’s likely now that Elliott et al will try to take them to court to force the issue,” he added....
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...Ratings triggers, forced sales, systemic cliff risk, et al. Still a feature in some eurozone periphery bonds, despite the rally. Portugal for instance....
...I call that solving the crisis....
...One trader calls it “a European solution to a global problem”....
...Here it is: We have discussed ‘naked’ CDS ad nauseum before when this was supposedly an issue in the US with Lehman et al. We also discussed it when the sovereign scare first started up....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Last year it returned to profit and regained market dominance over arch rival Christie’s, although so far the outcome in 2005 is too close to call....
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