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Record $217 Corporate Bond Issuance in September; Verizon Leads the Way With Largest Bond Deal Ever at $49 Billion

MishTalk

The secondary market fed off the activity of the primary market, translating to $394 billion in total trading, about 70% of which was in investment grade credits. 4 in the largest high-yield sale since 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. wireless carrier, Verizon Wireless. billion on Sept. sold in April.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Spain Levies Consumption.

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Minyanville Business and Market News. China Financial Markets. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Today, land-line telecom companies have to compete with wireless and. Mish and Eric King discuss Gold, the Stock Market, the US Dollar, Sideline Cash, China, and US real estate. Daily Bell.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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An Ex-Consultant’s Jump into the Start Up World

Management Consulted

I started at Yale in 2008. Altman Vilandrie is a boutique management consulting firm that focuses pretty exclusively on telecom, media and tech (TMT), so it does a lot of work with internet service providers, wireless providers, mobile manufacturers, and also a lot of work in the online advertising and media side of things as well.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Airbnb Since its launch in San Francisco in 2008 between two friends renting their home out during a conference in the city, this online bed booking service offers over 250,000 rooms provided by private individuals in in over 30,000 cities in 192 countries. For example, are apartments rented on Airbnb subject to tax?

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Self-Driving "Fully Automated" Vehicles on German Autobahn; Supply Chain Math; Uber and Khan Academy

MishTalk

The ATRI study, “ Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking ,” has been tracking truckers’ costs annually since 2008. That was largely caused by driver pay and benefit increases necessary to attract and retain drivers in the current tight labor market for truck drivers, the study concluded. per mile in 2013. Commercial Drivers?