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...Popular investment trusts which are trading at discounts include Scottish Mortgage at 14.71 per cent, Alliance Trust at 5.25 per cent and the City of London Investment Trust at 1.66 per cent....
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...Saale-Orla in south-east Thuringia borders the states of Bavaria and Saxony and has around 66,000 eligible voters....
...But annuity sales fell by a shock 14 per cent. The number of drawdowns, by contrast, increased 6 per cent, with more than 218,000 new policies signed up....
...These were put at a 66 per cent chance. “Leaders have been in snooze mode, so it is time for them to step up,” Inger Anderson, head of UNEP, told the Financial Times....
...The bank’s net interest margin, a crucial measure of lending profitability, rose to 1.66 per cent for the full year, as the bank benefited from higher interest rates....
...According to finance site Moneyfacts, the average rate for a two-year fixed mortgage is 5.66 per cent, down from the July peak of 6.86 per cent....
...The Ministry of Justice has been among the worst-hit departments from government austerity, its budget having declined about 14.5 per cent in real terms since 2009, according to the Institute for Fiscal...
...China’s SOEs are a core pillar of the world’s second-biggest economy, accounting for 66 per cent of gross domestic product in 2023, Tsinghua University public policy experts Zhang Fang and Zuo Jialu wrote...
...Shares in ASML have risen close to 14 per cent in the past year to value the Veldhoven-based company at about €250bn....
...Exit values are down 66 per cent from their 2021 peak. In 2023, 38 per cent fewer buyout funds closed, and deal values have fallen by 60 per cent over the past two years....
...Currently set at 66, ministers have delayed plans to raise it until after next year’s general election....
...The group, which is in the midst of a lengthy restructuring process, reported losses of Rmb476bn and Rmb106bn ($66.4bn and $14.8bn) for 2021 and 2022, respectively....
...The average price of a two-year fixed mortgage on Tuesday was 6.66 per cent, according to Moneyfacts....
...The nearly identical applications were approved on 14 of the 15 buildings, but refused on the last one because a different planner had worked on that file....
...The average interest rate on new mortgages rose to 4.66 per cent in July, the highest since 2008, BoE data showed....
...The group said on Friday that net income had jumped 67 per cent year on year to $14.47bn, ahead of analysts’ estimates of $11.9bn, according to consensus data compiled by Bloomberg....
...The fluid, from 66 females aged between 14 and 67, was then tested for hormones, such as oestrogen and follicle-stimulating hormone, that are known to fluctuate during the menopause....
...The yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasuries rose 0.10 percentage points to 4.54 per cent, their highest level in 16 years, while that on the 30-year note was up 0.14 percentage points to 4.66 per cent...
...Thousands of Britons who are still up to 14 years away from receiving their state pensions and are too sick to work risk being consigned to years of poverty unless the government reforms working age benefits...
...The company posted a loss before tax of £57.3mn in the six months to July 29, a 14 per cent improvement on the £66.8mn loss it recorded during the same period last year....
...An FT-Michigan Ross poll in November showed that just 14 per cent of respondents thought they were better off under Biden....
...The Home Office estimates that the pay thresholds will reduce annual inflows by 14,000. This would barely dent the latest figure of 672,000 for overall net migration....
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