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....
...al, with just $9bn on legacy oil and gas....
...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...
...(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.)...
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...Many French cinema owners, who are putting pressure on Cannes to resist Netflix et al, see the streamers’ disruptive attitude as an incursion into their territory....
...Tellingly, Jordà et al emphasise that higher levels of capital do have significant “social benefits” by accelerating the recoveries from crises and limiting the total damage to the rest of us, even if equity...
...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...
...In a separate study, Dustmann et al (2008) show immigration between 1997 and 2005 had a positive impact on average wages but a slight negative impact for the least well off. 3....
...David Cameron, the British prime minister, has promised to establish a public register and has pushed other governments, including those of offshore financial centres, to follow suit....
...They were also considerably less robust, especially in the early stages of the recoveries, which tended to be shallow L-shaped affairs, rather than V-shaped....
...Barclays turned to Qatar Holding, a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority, and Challenger – an investment vehicle of Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr al-Thani and his family...
...Staying lean has worked well for the fund so far....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...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...
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...According to Cassola et al. (2009), banks submitted more aggressive bids in order to make sure that they receive at least a minimum level of liquidity....
...Contrast this with two years ago, when Summers, Geithner, Romer, Volcker, Orszag et al were all jostling for position....
...Dugong et al v Robert Gates, a lawsuit that has been playing out in a San Francisco court since 2003, gained fresh importance yesterday after Japan’s government agreed to build a replacement for the Futenma...
...Citigroup slipped 2.8 per cent to $3.85 even as Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jaber Al-Thani, Qatar’s prime minister, was reported to have said his government is considering buying a stake in the bank....
...Bernanke bought bonds in 2009 and yields still backed up because of a V-shaped inventory- and policy-induced recovery in the economy and an 80% bounce in the equity market off the lows....
...al at a national level....
...Related links: SEC V. TREVOR G. COOK, PATRICK J. KILEY, ET AL, Case No. 09 CV 3333 – SEC Litigation release...
...Messrs Cable, Darling et al say they don’t care! They should. Moving key staff (100 or so) plus capital is relatively inexpensive....
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