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...Some public amenities have been shuttered and four of 13 neighbourhood libraries are facing closure....
...Social infrastructure across the country has been suffering from a debilitating mix of under-investment, rising costs and shortages of qualified staff, as well as low morale....
...At Morgan Stanley, 1,800 redundancies, slightly more than 2 per cent of staff, were made in early December, with little build-up or angst....
...Solomon also announced the bank was initiating the sale of GreenSky, which lends to customers making home improvements, just 13 months after Goldman completed the $2.2bn acquisition and trumpeted it as a...
...Around 13,216 arrived last month — 10 times more than in March 2022. Italy’s migrant housing centres and processing systems are now severely strained....
...Vacancy rates were significantly higher at more junior levels such as professional support at 16 per cent and associate at 15.1 per cent, compared with a 2.5 per cent vacancy rate among directors and 6.5...
...Her running total puts sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips at $13.6bn, up 12 per cent from last year and already above the previous high of $13.2bn for the full year 2014....
...Russia exports its seaborne oil from three main hubs (2023 YTD volumes, mb/d): the Baltic Sea (3.15), the Black Sea (1.65, excluding the Caspian Pipeline Consortium), and the East (1.3)....
...The broker’s assets grew from $186mn in 2019 to $1.2bn in 2021, while revenues soared 216 per cent, according to IHC’s 2021 annual report....
...The Nasdaq Composite fared even worse, losing 5.2 per cent....
...And then we conducted the survey of Ukrainian refugees abroad, and we saw that generally the proportion of adults to children is 1 to 1, so only half of them could produce something....
...We reckon that ‘the beatings will continue until morale improves’, as the saying goes.” The gloom has hit some of the industry’s biggest names....
...Morrill has been working on the flagpole for 13 years now, originally envisioned as a modest structure amid the balsam....
...UK house prices jumped 13.4 per cent year on year in June, the highest rate of annual growth since November 2004, Nationwide said. Sale prices averaged £255,432 up from £216,403 a year ago....
...Its initial $1.3m investment alone is now worth $13.8bn — a 1,045,925 per cent gain that makes it one of the best venture capital bets of all time....
...According to Bloomberg, it was the wealthiest zip code in America last year, with an average income of $2.2mn....
...The US president has been fiercely criticised for his decision to end what he called “America’s longest war” and the subsequent rapid withdrawal of the last 2,500 US troops which dealt a heavy morale blow...
...Germany’s goods imports from the UK shrank by €2bn in January compared with the same month last year to just €1.6bn, a 56.2 per cent plunge, official statistics showed this week....
...(FT) UBS pledges to boost payouts UBS is to return $2.5bn to shareholders next year after third-quarter profits surged....
...Meanwhile, the average store rate rose 2 per cent....
...Mr Cruz estimates that one of South America’s poorest countries paid Havana almost $150m over 13 years for medical personnel....
...Bit of whimsical homespun craftwork to boost morale and pass the ... oh dear god ......
...Some 13,945 of employees (around 76 per cent of the workforce) were either transferred in-house or to rival contractors, with just 2,787 employees — mostly head office staff — made redundant....
...The number of projects into Germany fell 13 per cent to 973 but the number in France rose 1 per cent to 1,027....
...At stake is the future impetus of Catholicism’s moral authority: at 1.3bn, the world’s largest Christian community....
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