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...Delinquencies on credit card loans are also running at their highest level in almost 13 years, according to data from Moody’s Analytics, even as banks have reported record profits from credit card lending...
...In December, she asked an accountant she knew if she should let a “friend” funnel £2mn from the sale of bitcoin through her personal bank account. Would there be tax issues, she asked....
...Having them buy a significant number of chips was a potential godsend for Ommic. But it would quickly become a problem: in 2014, Putin annexed Crimea from Ukraine....
...Estate agency Knight Frank predicts that the number of Monaco residents with a net worth (including their primary residence) of more than $30mn will increase 23 per cent in the next four years....
...It’s not good for Greece, where Capital Economics points out that tourism accounts for over 20 per cent of GDP, or Spain (14 per cent) or Italy (13 per cent). But it’s absolutely fabulous for us....
...Overall housebuilding generated profits of £13.4m, up from £12.9m a year earlier, while St Modwen Homes sales grew from 202 units to 230, with average private sale prices up 21 per cent at £262,000....
...But it also resulted in an economy reliant on a small number of huge, family-controlled groups – a situation that lawmakers from across the political spectrum are vowing to change, by toughening restrictions...
...Prosecutors allege evidence seized from Mr Costa indicated he negotiated with Petrobras’s contractors to make political donations....
...And the chairman himself is now 13 years beyond normal retirement age without a clearly communicated succession plan....
...Separately, Russia began a partial evacuation of its diplomats from Tripoli on Sunday. 13.12 Some analysis on the military action in Libya from Brigadier Ben Barry of the International Institute for Strategic...
...“An increasing number of companies are running into difficulties to obtain bank financing,” says Josef Trischler at VDMA....
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