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...AB InBev’s operating margins are the highest in the industry at 32.5 per cent, up from 23.3 per cent in 2008, when AB was bought....
...But to maintain a fair contribution from the banks, I will introduce a new 8 percent surcharge on bank profits from the 1st January next year....
...Analysts at Bernstein Research expect the bank to produce an adjusted pre-tax profit of $3.2bn in the first six months of this year, compared with $4.1bn a year earlier....
...… Shredded: Inside RBS, the Bank that Broke Britain, by Ian Fraser, Birlinn, RRP£25 Of two excellent recent books about the implosion of Royal Bank of Scotland (the other is Iain Martin’s Making it...
...down -9.53 (-0.06%) at 15,239 Nasdaq up +4.55 (+0.13%) at 3,474 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -0.99 (-0.08%) at 1,193 FTSE100 down -11.54 (-0.18%) at 6,400 CAC 40 down -8.23 (-0.21%) at 3,864 Dax...
...With Thailand the world’s biggest exporter, that may raise rice prices across a region that accounts for 87 per cent of global consumption....
...– the US Federal Reserve, the ECB and the Bank of England – in the run-up to the financial crisis and beyond, from two former insiders at the top level of UK policymaking....
...BT Group fell 6.3 per cent to 110p as pension deficit worries returned....
...Liberty International, the most geared among the UK property majors, faded 3.9 per cent to 355¾p. Land Securities was 5.2 per cent adrift at 645½p and Segro fell 4.8 per cent to 142¾p....
...Americans recognize that spirit of liberty, because we share it....
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