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...The foundation has been growing sporadically since its inauguration, with projects stopping and starting according to Okwera’s bank account....
...disclose any deficit as a financial liability in their accounts just as they would a bank loan or a bond issue....
...Not that I don’t trust a bloke who needs help tapping his card at the petrol station. April edges towards May. I’m on duty over the bank holiday....
...Cliff Weight, from the individual shareholders group ShareSoc, says he is concerned that some companies see AGMs as a “waste of time and unnecessary, apart from the formalities” required by law....
...(FT) Blackstone has clinched an all-cash takeover for Canadian real estate investment trust Dream Global, valuing the owner of western European office and warehouse spaces at C$6.2bn ($4.7bn)....
...Music executives in places such as Canada and Japan were hesitant to trust Spotify, resulting in years of painstaking negotiations to launch in those countries....
...The oldest group of female applicants — those aged 64-66 applying for administrative roles — got a callback rate of just 7.6 per cent, while younger applicants received a response twice as often....
...at 07:48 Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +389.88 (+1.96%) at 20,299 Topix up +28.94 (+1.77%) at 1,668 Hang Seng down -59.62 (-0.21%) at 28,100 US markets S&P 500 up +3.64 (+0.15%) at 2,504 DJIA up +63.01...
...Investors can choose to split their annual Isa allowance of £15,240 between cash and stocks and shares products, rising to £20,000 from April 6....
...However, riskier trust investments in bonds have also been increasing, rising to account for 10.6 per cent of total trust investment at the end of 2015, from 8.9 per cent in 2014 and 6.7 per cent in 2013...
...Economics The Only Game in Town: Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse, by Mohamed El-Erian, Yale, RRP£18.99/Random House, RRP$28 Central banks saved the world economy from collapse...
...This country had a sovereign debt crisis in both 1982 and 1994, the first of which threatened to leave a number of American banks insolvent, including Citicorp and Bank of America, if the banks had not agreed...
...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....
...Investors need a minimum investment of £25,000 and quoted interest rates range from 6 to 9 per cent....
...It has found that, on average, women account for just 6 per cent of seats on boards in 10 Asian markets, compared with 17 per cent in Europe and 10 per cent in the US....
...Bodyguard: Hostage, by Chris Bradford, Penguin, RRP£6.99, 432 pages Bone-crunching action adventure from the author of the Young Samurai series....
...clear that it took plenty of negligence, greed and misplaced trust on the part of others to build his pyramid....
...In this model, the priority for development is output growth in export sectors, using subsidised local capital from local citizens’ savings accounts and a controlled currency regime....
...But in the third quarter of 2008 it fell by 3.5 per cent – the biggest drop since 1980 – as people watched banks fail and their investments plunge in value....
...Offshore Disclosure Facility Six major cases recently decided in HMRC’s favour by the Special Commissioners has meant that some major banks have been forced to disclose details of offshore bank accounts...
...Alicia, the self-titled “black sheep” of the family, holds her own in elegant gowns or jacket-and-skirt numbers....
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