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Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC Announces Distributions for Certain Closed End Funds Pursuant to their Managed Distribution Policy

Market Watch 20 Aug 2018

Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC announced today that certain closed end funds have declared distributions pursuant to their managed distribution policy ... Fund Name ... LMP Capital and Income Fund Inc ... Under the terms of each Fund’s managed distribution policy, the Fund seeks to maintain a consistent distribution level derived from the income and capital gains generated from the Fund’s investment portfolio ... Fund....

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GUNDLACH: Hedge funds are betting against Treasurys like never before, and they could soon face massive losses

Business Insider 20 Aug 2018

The DoubleLine Funds founder and fixed-income maven warned on Friday via Twitter after data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed hedge funds had piled on record bets against 10- and 30-year Treasurys ... However, if the trend reverses, hedge funds could face a so-called short squeeze as they're forced to close out their positions, pushing Treasury yields downward even faster ... Treasurys Jeff Gundlach Hedge Funds CFTC....

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Business condemns Turnbull's shift on emissions and 'extreme intervention'

The Observer 20 Aug 2018

Australia’s superannuation funds and business groups have reacted angrily to Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to dump emissions reduction targets from his national energy guarantee ... Investors are looking for policy built on clear market signals ... A national climate and energy policy would mean that the government doesn’t need to risk taxpayer funds to support new generators.”....

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Countrywide backs away from bumper pay plan for top bosses

Belfast Telegraph 20 Aug 2018

The group, which is tapping investors for an emergency £140 million in funding, had planned to pay out as much as £20 million to a trio of executives as part of changes to its remuneration policy ... There has been agreement that the proposals focus on rebuilding shareholder value as well as discussion as to whether that is sufficient to merit moving from the existing remuneration policy Countrywide....

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Central bankers have many issues to keep them busy at Jackson Hole meeting

Business Day 20 Aug 2018

Washington/Frankfurt — Summer break for central bankers ends this week when their leaders gather on Friday and Saturday for the Federal Reserve’s annual policy symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming ... That runoff is also reducing the level of reserves in the banking system and, by some indications, affecting the Fed’s ability to manage the benchmark federal funds policy rate ... European policy makers have kept quiet through the summer break....

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Ghana Is Capable Of Running Free SHS With Proceeds From Natural Resources

Peace FM Online 20 Aug 2018

Dr Steve Manteaw, Chairman of the Public Interest and Accountability Committee, over the weekend said compared to other African countries, Ghana is more capable of funding the free senior high school programme ... Dr Manteaw was speaking at a dialogue on education policy in Ghana under the theme ... sources of funds which could guarantee sustainability....

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Waiting for concrete to cure on I-40 is like watching paint dry

Albuquerque Journal 20 Aug 2018

After a recent column item on there being no funding for a proposed roundabout at Rio Grande and Mountain, a reader emails ... Diane Dolan, policy analyst for Benton, explains, “There is currently no funding to pursue a roundabout at Rio Grande and Mountain, which was the ‘preferred’ of two options for the intersection studied in the Rio Grande Complete Street Concept Plan....

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Govt fails to secure Catholic schools deal

This is Money 20 Aug 2018

The sector campaigned hard against the government's new funding policy in the Queensland seat of Longman, where the coalition suffered a bruising by-election defeat, ......

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$20 million Macomb County road-funding plan goes awry

Macomb Daily 20 Aug 2018

But the arrangement fell through due to a disagreement between Hackel and the board over the timing of the funds and the approval process for the projects. The plan would’ve involved the county borrowing $20 million from the Treasurer’s delinquent tax fund and partnering for projects with local communities, with repayment at a 3-percent per annum interest rate, in anticipation of increased road funding from the state....

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First Trust Energy Infrastructure Fund Declares its Monthly Common Share Distribution of $0.11 Per Share for September

Market Watch 20 Aug 2018

The Fund's Board of Trustees has approved a managed distribution policy for the Fund (the "Plan") in reliance on exemptive relief received from the Securities and Exchange Commission which permits the Fund to make periodic distributions of long-term capital gains as frequently as monthly each tax year ... Because the Fund is concentrated in ......

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New Southbound Policy budget to be boosted

Taipei Times 20 Aug 2018

The Executive Yuan’s proposed budget for the New Southbound Policy next year might appear to be a reduction, but funding is actually being increased, Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics Minister Chu Tzer-ming (朱澤民) said on Saturday ... last year, which is why it seems like funding is being cut for the southbound policy, he said....

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Editorial: UC should divest from companies linked with immigration crisis

Daily Bruin 20 Aug 2018

These calls are a welcome reminder of the mixed messages state institutions send by denouncing ghastly border policies while indirectly funding their enforcement ... Other companies that unions point to, however, have less direct relations with border policy ... Department of Homeland Security, even went as far as to call out the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the border....

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CNN's Jake Tapper Finally Admits His Fact-Check of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare-for-All' Claim ...

Alternet 20 Aug 2018

Sanders, New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and several policy analysts have pointed out that—according to the Koch-funded Mercatus Center study, authored by Chuck Blahous—the American public would save $2 trillion on healthcare under Sanders' Medicare for All plan ... In an article on Monday, People's Policy Project founder ......

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