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...Now he is a frontrunner, who was joint leader with 17-year-old Gukesh D (India) on 4/6, ahead of the favourite Fabiano Caruana (US) and Praggnanandhaa R (India) on 3.5....
...Mexico has the lowest public investment among OECD countries, spending just 1.3 per cent of GDP in 2019, the first year of López Obrador’s government....
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...Non-executive director Charles Peal sold 267,049 shares at 770p each, leaving him with 499,301 shares, or 1.5 per cent of the company....
...Meanwhile, the Kremlin last week said it was about to enforce a unilateral cut of about 5 per cent of supply....
...For the 12 months to the end of January Inditex posted record figures with sales up 17.5 per cent to €32.6bn and net profit climbing 27 per cent to €4.1bn....
...John Lobb leather Lopez loafers, £1,055....
...The Hwasong-17 reached an altitude of more than 6,000km — the highest a North Korean missile has ever flown — and travelled 1,080km from its launch site near Pyongyang, according to South Korea. 2....
...More than 1.4m new infections have been reported across Europe in the past seven days, down from 1.6m the week before....
...on López Obrador to act....
...That chimes with the estimates of a senior public official, who told the FT that Pemex had “burnt through 300bn pesos” in 2020 — some 1.5 points of GDP....
...Banorte, which has cut costs to deal with forced cuts to banking commissions, looks cheap at about 1.5 times book value and an ROE near 20 per cent....
...1.5 per cent....
...Mr Arce and Mr Choquehuanca will face Carlos Mesa, a centrist who was Mr Morales’s strongest challenger in October, with 17.1 per cent....
...To hold global warming to 1.5°C, Irena has said that Latin America’s installed renewable energy capacity must rise from around 250GW today, to 440GW by 2030....
...In Mexico, femicides have more than doubled in the past five years, to over 1,000 in 2019, fuelling fury against Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s government. (FT) What are banks worth?...
...While the US economy grew at a 3.1 per cent annualised pace in the first quarter, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s latest tracking estimate is for second-quarter growth of just 1.2 per cent....
...Inditex store space increased by 5 per cent last year, with openings in 56 markets....
...Amia said that Mexico’s overall auto production fell 1.3 per cent year-over-year in November. Exports fell 0.2 per cent in the month and domestic sales dropped 5.4 per cent....
...Ukraine’s 17.5 per cent benchmark could also face cuts, and the Bank of Korea imposed a quarter-point cut for the first time in three years amid an escalating row with Japan....
...Prices range from $300,000 to $1.3m....
...Start-ups are also seeking to shake up the $1.3tn corporate travel market....
...Some 5,000 migrants are already camped out in the city and the number seeking to cross the border to pursue asylum claims could double as new groups arrive....
...Seeking to institutionalise his own hallmarks of honesty and austerity, Mr López Obrador has cut his future monthly pay to 108,000 pesos ($5,800)....
...This has led to a sharp rise in private sector debt, a surge in inflation to 17.9 per cent and a blow out in the current account deficit to 5.5 per cent of GDP Monetary policy Recep Tayyip Erdogan says high...
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