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...Scientists say the US is facing its worst dry spell in 1,200 years....
...The next day, regulators stepped in and seized control of SVB....
...Mackay wasn’t wrong to argue that people can suffer from collective delusions, but his account lacks a crucial element: humility....
...Now, they account for 50-60 per cent of viewings,” says Christian....
...Without Turkish investment in schools, clinics and job opportunities, he adds, there is no hope of Syrian refugees returning home....
...Figures compiled by the bank show the global average charge has dropped from around 9 per cent in 2011 to 6.4 per cent today for a cross-border transfer of $200....
...“We have growth of 5 per cent, but 2.5 per cent comes from minerals [oil and gas] which brings in money but doesn’t create employment, which is the only thing that’s going to save us,” the academic says....
...But the US currency strengthened 0.4 per cent against the Japanese yen, buying ¥106.03 The yield on US 10-year Treasury bonds, which rises when prices fall, added around 5 basis points to 0.78 per cent,...
...That number now sits at 200. Policy is what matters, McKinsey believes....
...Inditex, which helped pioneer fast-fashion retailing, said that 78 per cent of its 5,743 outlets were now open....
...GUS says that due to high demand BSBI has added another floor and that its student enrolment has been drawn from 78 different nationalities to date....
...Hedge funds were pulling their balances from Morgan Stanley at an alarming rate, funding markets seized up and the value of the bank’s trading assets plummeted....
...And in April their courtship culminated with Facebook’s $5.7bn investment in Jio — its largest foreign deal to date....
...Huawei’s market share soared to 42.4 per cent from 24.9 per cent, an extraordinary 17.5 percentage point gain in a single year, according to figures from Canalys, the research firm....
...Investment-based crowdfunding experienced one of the biggest increases in complaints over the year at 200 per cent, although just 78 complaints were received....
...That has become increasingly important after a sharp reduction in the dividend tax threshold in April last year, from £5,000 to £2,000, on investments held outside an Isa wrapper....
...The company has so far raised £2.84m from almost 1,200 investors. However, success stories are rare....
...And so far the government has shielded them from any serious crackdown by hardline elements in the regime, spending IR200tn ($5.3bn) to help develop technology infrastructure over the past five years....
...The deal was valued at nearly $500m from TPG’s initial investment of $150m in 2015....
...“I started out at 18 with literally $200 in my bank account, and I bought this house a year later, and that’s all from social media.”...
...It is a brutal winter for Britain’s consumer economy, with more than 5,000 jobs at risk from this week’s announcements alone....
...Foreign holdings of Chinese bonds have jumped 50 per cent in the past two years as overseas investors have seized on Beijing’s push to open up its estimated Rmb73tn ($11tn) fixed-income market....
...It will take the total number of the 5 minute episodes to 381....
...In 2015, a total of 343,000 households paid €5.22bn, an average of about €15,200 per household. It accounts for less than 2 per cent of France’s tax receipts....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 up 1 per cent and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index up 0.5 per cent. In Japan the Topix index was flat....
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