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...That he probably doesn't have any foreign assets, you know You mean there's not a bank account saying V Putin, the Kremlin. Yeah. But nonetheless, I suppose......
...This painting was once owned by the Japanese businessman Kojiro Matsukata, who collected several works for a museum of western art in Tokyo but had to change his plans after the financial crisis of the late...
...(Bloomberg) US oil driller Continental Resources has hired Rory Sabino, formerly of Bank of America Merrill Lynch....
...al Jazeera’s BeIn Sports....
...Algos v quants A rising fund manager star at T Rowe Price predicts that computers will become increasingly important in asset management, supplanting the industry’s traditional backbone of human stock pickers...
...Amblin Partners will produce movies that eOne will distribute across a series of territories. Films in production include The BFG and an HBO production featuring Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston....
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...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...
...A member of the ruling coalition says he has “received information that the congressman Jose Janene is alive and is living in a country in Central America”....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...The latest case, Google v Joffe et al, involves a class action suit stemming from the company’s illicit collection of snippets of information from WiFi networks in homes that its StreetView cars were passing...
...(Financial Times longread) U.S. inflation is a window into a global growth risk (WSJ, Hilsenrath) Emerging markets can learn from America’s bank stress tests (Financial Times, Tett) France is looking...
...(Financial Times) EU proposals for Libor et al to be unveiled today: “[B]enchmarks that are deemed to be “critical” would be overseen by a college of national supervisors led by the Paris-based European...
...a reputation as one of the most vivid western writers on China....
...The KIA still has its shares in what is now a unit of Bank of America, and has a big gain on its position. It has also invested in Chinese banks....
...We’re pretty confident that Goldman et al can do better. It all brings to mind a line from David Hare’s 2009 play ‘The Power of Yes’ about the financial crisis....
...… Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank that Broke Britain, by Ian Fraser, Birlinn, RRP£25 RBS, briefly the biggest bank in the world, was a rogue bank....
...(FT Brussels Blog) - Merkel ‘will be feted like a star for defending German interests in the eurozone crisis’ at party congress. (Reuters) - Philip Stephens: A taxing problem for Google et al....
...When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence, by Stephen King, Yale, RRP£20/$20 For many, the financial crisis is a temporary interruption in the rise of western prosperity, caused by easily remedied...
...BofA profits fall after Merrill charge: Bank of America earned $340m in the third quarter, compared with $6.2bn a year earlier, as a charge to settle a shareholder lawsuit almost wiped out profits, reports...
...When the Money Runs Out : The End of Western Affluence, by Stephen King, Yale, RRP£20, 304 pages For many, the financial crisis is a temporary interruption in the rise of western prosperity that is due...
...In the City of London Coutts bank likes to see as many as possible in the displays at their hospitality events and, for a few financial institutions, it has become an element in corporate social responsibility...
...She says she is writing a lecture on the topic and, as she talks, she becomes fluent and impassioned, giving me a glimpse of the star economist in top gear. “Paternalism is everywhere in our lives....
...Either the sovereigns that matter will, after many years of austerity, restore solvency or there will be orderly restructuring of Italy, Spain et. al. in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland....
...option to buy a 49 per cent stake in assets including Anglo’s star copper mine, the FT reports....
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