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...It includes a lavish townhouse in Belgravia, London, purchased for £13.75mn in 2013, as well as a home and livery yard in Stratford-upon-Avon....
...Credit spreads, eh. Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...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...
...Along with the powerhouses of LVMH, Kering et al, niche indie designers are also carving out an aesthetic mixing west and east in a way that is both credible and commercially viable....
...And, in recent weeks, Deutsche Bank, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas, Société Générale, UniCredit and Santander have all been cited as potential acquirers. Crédit Agricole was even kind of explicit....
...says Doug McKenzie, a solar analyst and consultant, who goes on to explain why it’s a terrible idea....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
...Nasrallah, shrewd and cerebral as well as fiery and charismatic, has been virtually in hiding since 2006, fearing assassination by Israel....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...Azevedo et al called it something different — “in the nature of a bribe”....
...Indeed, “whilst all money is credit, not all credit is money: it is the possibility of transfer that makes the difference”....
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Another $300m investment, made through Millennium Global, a London-based hedge fund, cost the LIA $100m when Millennium’s Global Emerging Credit fund imploded....
...So, Bernanke et al are now going to be increasingly targeting longer-term interest rates as a means to revive growth, mitigate double-dip risks and avoid a potentially destabilizing deflationary experience...
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
...And why, now, doesn’t someone come along and eat Durant for lunch, in the way that Blockbuster has been laid low by Netflix et al? There are two answers (at least)....
...BP is solid and its pension fund is relatively well-endowed....
...Even as the fashion shops fill up with the mean-looking structured shoulders of Balmain et al, she is already self-conscious about her “swimmer’s shoulders”: “I know I’d look like Krystle Carrington,” she...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...That’s what people did in Silicon Valley at the turn of the millennium....
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