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...It rebounded fully from the pandemic last year and foreign direct investment shot up to $74bn in the year to September from $50bn a year earlier, according to the Brazil central bank....
...At the end of last year, 64 per cent of all deposits in the banking system were in foreign currency or precious metals, according to central bank data....
...from trucks to TVs....
...based on political theater rather than facts, in our opinion, President Trump announced the drastic action of suspending all passenger travel from Europe, excluding the U.K., to the United States for 30...
...profits from other areas....
...It has tacked on nearly 11 per cent so far this year to hit a near five year high of 67,093.64 on Monday....
...Shareholders in Shawbrook have received a third takeover offer from the private equity consortium seeking to buy the challenger bank....
...(Accounts showed an £850,000 loss in 2015.) He lambasted the “authoritarians, opportunists and failed politicians from other parties” who had joined along the way....
...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...
...Rio Tinto is dropping its progressive dividend policy, SocGen is the latest large bank to miss expectations, Google is facing a grilling from MPs....
...(The following account is based on Albion’s Seed by David Hackett Fischer, which we strongly recommend for anyone interested in understanding the United States....
...The Q2 current account is expected to see little change in the deficit from a previous $113.3bn and at 3pm, the September Philly Fed index is expected to decline to 6.0 from a previous 8.3....
...Markets at 0830 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -38.67 (-0.19%) at 20,219 Topix down -6.16 (-0.38%) at 1,634 Hang Seng up +246.94 (+0.93%) at 26,814 US markets DJIA up +113.31 (+0.64%) at 17,904 Nasdaq...
...(WSJ) Greece pays IMF The finance ministry ordered the EUR750m payment, ending uncertainty over whether Athens would withhold its cheque as a bargaining chip in creditor negotiations....
...(WSJ) Food for thought From Germany, the case for reparations Greek demands for reparations from Germany have found support from unlikely allies in Berlin....
...Analysts at Deutsche Bank increased their third-quarter and full-year earnings expectations for United following the results....
...most celebrated accounts of racial injustice in the Jim Crow South....
...Markets: Stocks in Greater China climbed as China’s central bank allowed the country’s currency to rise slightly, ending a seven-day losing streak....
...(Reuters) “Japan posted its smallest current account surplus on record last year in a worrying sign that sluggish exports and the rising cost of energy imports will hamper economic growth.”...
...the $55 billion lawsuit against the United States over AIG” (WSJ) From Patton Boggs to Bingham McCutchen, big law firms have a big revenue problem (WSJ) Monsanto at centre of intensifying debate on food...
...The rule dramatically curbs the way banks do business, banning them from making bets using their own accounts in what is known as proprietary trading, and also holding their chief executives more accountable...
...to close Cuba’s checking account in the United States has presented an unusual diplomatic quandary” (Reuters) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -150.67 (-0.96%) at 15,576 Topix down -6.64...
...In total, US bank loan growth stood at 1.9 per cent last year – down from 4.5 per cent in 2012....
...He boasts of ending the war in Iraq and getting rid of Osama bin Laden. 21.52 Michael Jones, the first African-American questioner, asks the president what he has done to earn his vote again in 2008. 21.51...
...The carrier reported a net loss of Rs4.44bn ($90m) for the three months ending December 31, a 75 per cent increase from a year earlier....
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