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...Average fees per term at ISC member schools range from £13,000 at boarding schools to £5,550 at day schools, according to the council’s 2023 annual report....
...Total sales for the full year rose 19.6 per cent to £1.8bn, while like-for-like sales in company-managed stores increased by 13.7 per cent compared with 2022....
...That rise extended a rally that began last October and has lifted the stock price by nearly 33 per cent, reaching €43.13 on Wednesday....
...Anyone who plays the white side of the Ruy Lopez 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 would be totally shocked to see Black sacrificing his c8 bishop for the h3 pawn 10 moves later....
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...No hurry to drink this gem from northern Portugal. £35.61 Lay & Wheeler, £46.99 Handford Hacienda López de Haro, Classica Gran Reserva 2005 Rioja (14%)Rioja has so much to offer, in all three colours now...
...At the time of Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel on October 7, UN agencies had 13,000 staff in Gaza. They are now providing aid and shelter to 1.8mn of the 2.3mn population....
...But there’s also another concern here, which is the shrinkage of the pool of buyers for the $1.3tn commercial paper asset class....
...Dinner: Tuesday—Saturday, 6pm — 10.30pm Prices: Lunch menu, S$188 ($137/£113)....
...The country’s Latino population grew to 19.1 per cent of the total population in 2022, compared to 13 per cent in 2000, according to the latest US census data....
...Its main fund beat all 188 Brazilian peers tracked by Bloomberg in 2022, with a 39 per cent return after fees....
...In the final quarter of the period Inditex posted a net profit of €1bn on sales that grew 13.4 per cent to €9.5bn....
...Former Dior designer Hedi Slimane and Mexican art collector (and Museo Jumex founder) Eugenio López Alonso also arrived in Trousdale around this time....
...Pantherella cotton socks, £13.50. John Lobb oxgrain-leather shoes, £1,255. Bracelet, model’s own William wears Burberry wool-mix sweater, £950....
...“The growth has been in such a short time . . . it’s been really unparalleled,” says Diego López, managing director of Global SWF, which tracks sovereign funds’ activity....
...In currency markets, sterling slipped slightly against the dollar, losing 0.04 per cent to $1.215 but gained 0.07 per cent against the euro to €1.188. Read more about markets here....
...Starling, backed by Goldman Sachs, swung to a pre-tax profit for the 12 months to March 31 of £32.1mn from a loss of £13.7mn a year earlier. Revenues rose more than 90 per cent to £188.1mn....
...Czech presidential elections take place on January 13-14....
...Revenues were boosted by the bank’s move into the residential home loans sector, increasing more than 90 per cent to £188.1mn....
...John Lobb leather Lopez loafers, £1,055....
...Deaths, which tend to lag behind changes in cases, have averaged 1,188 a day over the past week, according to CDC data....
...35-45 per cent to 32-42 per cent and in 2020 when it increased private equity holdings from 2-8 per cent to 5-10 per cent and infrastructure from 1-5 per cent to 2-7 per cent....
...It was last at 20.78 pesos to the dollar, a 6.3 per cent move from late November, when it hit its weakest level in 13 months....
...Banco de Mexico’s rate rises have already triggered a political row with populist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
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