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...Belgian police have seized record amounts of cocaine from Latin America in recent years, hidden in everything from banana crates to the lining of containers....
...The file says that they work to form joint ventures with Colombian cartels to “control the trafficking of cocaine from South America into the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp”....
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...by checking for antibodies....
...Deutsche Bank analysts had predicted that high street like-for-likes would be down 4 per cent and travel like-for-likes up 2 per cent....
...Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s controversial recent deal to buy $2.8bn of PDVSA bonds for a reported $865m from the Venezuelan central bank (albeit via a broker), led to protests from opponents of the...
...It’s been decades since this category of consumer spending has grown so rapidly: (The source is table 2.4.5U of the National Income and Product Accounts.)...
...At 1230 BST, the European Central Bank publishes an account of its latest monetary policy meeting....
...From June 2014 through our prior survey this past June, prices declined from an average of $50-$70 to $30-$45 for an eighth, and $300-$400 to the lower end of about $300 for an ounce....
...Bank of America Merrill Lynch, for example, offers fathers 12 weeks’ leave. Pay makes a huge difference....
...Dubbed the biggest rogue trader in British history, he was convicted in 2012 for losing $2.3bn of the Swiss bank UBS’s money....
...of accounts in North America by 2018....
...account will be written down by that difference....
...HSBC: provisionally scary: The bank’s third quarter numbers are out....
...on the health of Europe’s banks, the FT reports....
...In 2010, the average weekly wage in Manhattan was $2,404, which is 170 percent more than the U.S. aver- age, and 45 percent more than in Santa Clara County, home of Silicon Valley, which pays the highest...
...In the months that followed, not much happened, despite increasingly loud appeals for consolidation from Miguel Angel Fernández Ordoñez, Bank of Spain governor, who wanted the 45 cajas that account for about...
...The UK has a number of assets already in the region which have previously assisted in the evacuation of British Nationals from Libya and others which we are ready to support as required. 16.37 The world...
...Undeniably, banks lose most money from cyber attacks because of the sloppiness of their customers. But the banks, too, need to clean up their act....
...This month, it was named “bank of the year” for Spain, Portugal and Latin America by The Banker magazine (part of the Financial Times Group)....
...This, after all, is the country that now accounts for three out of the world’s six largest companies in the FT Global 500 (PetroChina, China Mobile and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China)....
...So borrowing next year, which peaked at 7.8 per cent of national income by 1993, equivalent to £110 billion today, next year will rise to £43 billion, some 2.9 per cent of national income, less at its peak...
...All along the Mediterranean coast, Britons can shop for British groceries at ”Spainsbury’s”, a local supermarket, and open accounts with the same high-street banks they used back home....
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