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...“Getting a mortgage for 3 per cent, rather than the 7-8 per cent rates in the US, made it seem a good investment right now....
...The IMF’s board is due to meet in the next two weeks to approve a $7.5bn loan disbursement provisionally agreed last month....
...Average total pay over the three months to August was down from 8.5 to 8.1 per cent and excluding bonuses was down from 7.9 per cent to 7.8 per cent....
...April 27 to May 5; further information and tickets here ‘Dekalog: 1–4’, New National Theatre, Tokyo The first instalment of a theatrical adaptation of the late Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski...
...provided a 100 per cent discount since 2008.Last year, as the Sánchez government sought to raise funds to tackle the cost of living crisis, it introduced a new tax on “large fortunes”, a levy of at least 1.7...
...Monday–Thursday at 7.30pm and 9pm....
...battle overshadowing all other political life in Spain — has heightened polarisation at an unfortunate time, just as the country confronts an incipient fourth coronavirus wave in which the more infectious B.1.1.7...
...After the bloc’s unemployment rate hit a 12-year low of 6.4 per cent in March, it then only inched up to 6.7 per cent in May....
...Today the number is around 1,000. “We are going to have 1,500 track and tracers in Madrid,” Isabel Díaz Ayuso, head of the regional government, said this week....
...Mr Diaz said that on April 7, his banker told him Chase had run out of funds within minutes of the programme opening....
...It is also estimated that the GDP of many Asian and Pacific countries could rise between 1 and 7 per cent with disability-inclusive employment, according to Unescap....
...But while the Brazilian football team is expected to do well this year — it could hardly get worse than the 7-1 defeat Brazil suffered to Germany in 2014 — the 2018 election could go either way....
...The forward P/E on the market stands at 17.4, which is about 1.5 standard deviations above its historical average, and the long run Shiller P/E (computed using 10-year averages of real earnings instead of...
...Photographs: Rolando Diaz; Fredrik Nilsen; Silvia Ros; Winston Wachter; Magnin-A; Long Sharp...
...Via Juan Antolin-Diaz, note the change in the distribution of the dots:...
...Germany’s 10-year bond yields were also on the move, climbing 17 basis points to 0.7 per cent....
...Just Retirement, an annuity specialist, turned around from losses to rise 2.7 per cent to 155.7p....
...The model reckons there is about a 17 per cent chance of this happening – a moderate, but clearly not a negligible, risk....
...Used copies of the first book are listed on Amazon for upwards of $1,295....
...Although the growth of wind power is impressive, it still forms a small part of Poland’s energy mix, accounting for just 1.7 per cent of the country’s electricity production last year....
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