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...Doubles at Villa La Coste from €1,200 (villalacoste.com), or try the five-star Château de Fonscolombe (fonscolombe.com), 10 minutes’ drive away, where doubles start at €324....
...Bolinas, population 1,400, has always been a self-regulating community....
...It would include a 1-2 per cent levy on all new-build properties over the next 10 years....
...The latest data show that in 2017-18, prices ranged from about $1.55 a pound to $9.05 with the median at $3, compared with a market average of about $1....
...The gold price (after being a laggard of late) has finally broken above $1,300 an ounce and has eclipsed its March high at $1,324....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.2 per cent to 24,049.15 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 0.2 per cent to 7,144.324....
...Last year, Glencore purchased $2.4bn of aluminium from Rusal under a long-term supply deal that is due to expire later this year....
...FastFT reports the UK’s largest housebuilder, Barratt Developments, saw total completions of new homes increase by 2 per cent over the half-year to December 31 to 7,324....
...5,522 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,324 Currencies €/$ 1.24 (1.24) $/¥ 108.71 (108.95) £/$ 1.40 (1.41) €/£ 0.8816 (0.8795) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.47 at 68.99 Light Crude (Nymex)...
...Cobalt 27, a Canadian-listed vehicle, has amassed a hoard of over 2,800 tonnes of the metal, worth about $209m at current prices....
...The markets at 07:53 Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -77.28 (-0.40%) at 19,393 Topix down -2.17 (-0.14%) at 1,595 Hang Seng up +106.96 (+0.40%) at 27,155 US markets S&P 500 down -4.46 (-0.18%) at 2,426 DJIA...
...) at 19,753 Topix up +17.15 (+1.07%) at 1,616 Hang Seng up +74.11 (+0.27%) at 27,324 US markets S&P 500 up +24.52 (+1.00%) at 2,466 DJIA up +135.39 (+0.62%) at 21,994 Nasdaq up +83.68 (+1.34%) at 6,340...
...Restaurant Group slipped 3.6 per cent to 324.6p after N+1 Singer turned cautious....
...JPMorgan Chase has slammed on the brakes too, adding $8bn of loans and leases during the quarter, down 17 per cent....
...) at 18,513 Topix up +13.84 (+0.94%) at 1,483 Hang Seng up +57.89 (+0.25%) at 22,848 US markets S&P 500 down -5.85 (-0.27%) at 2,199 DJIA up +1.98 (+0.01%) at 19,124 Nasdaq down -56.24 (-1.05%) at 5,324...
...-45.26 (-0.25%) at 18,099 Nasdaq down -25.69 (-0.49%) at 5,213 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -12.22 (-0.91%) at 1,324 FTSE100 down -46.27 (-0.66%) at 6,978 CAC 40 down -47.07 (-1.06%) at 4,405 Dax...
...Top 100 LGBT Executives 1 Gigi Chao , executive vice-chairman, Cheuk Nang Holdings Limited 2 Inga Beale , chief executive, Lloyd's of London 3 Alan Joyce , chief executive, Qantas 4 Martine Rothblatt...
...Top 100 LGBT Executives 1 Gigi Chao executive vice-chairman, Cheuk Nang Holdings Limited 2 Inga Beale chief executive, Lloyd's of London 3 Alan Joyce chief executive, Qantas 4 Martine Rothblatt chief...
...Gold, which often moves inversely to the dollar, was up 0.2 per cent at $1,324.81 an ounce and appeared poised to recover from two consecutive days of losses....
...Sterling was 0.1 per cent firmer at $1.3154 after gaining 2.6 per cent and climbing above $1.33 over the three days to Wednesday....
...at 4,324 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 9,828 Currencies €/$ 1.15 (1.15) $/¥ 106.97 (107.00) £/$ 1.45 (1.45) €/£ 0.7905 (0.7925) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.74 at 45.36 Light Crude (Nymex) up...
...Imperial Tobacco faded 1.1 per cent to £34.03....
...Oz Gold (Comex) down -1.50 at 1,055 Copper (Comex) up 0.00 at 2.05 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.23% UK 1.82% Germany 0.47% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe -0.19bps at...
...Other base metals were also higher with copper up 3.2 per cent to $5,324 a tonne and aluminium gaining 3.3 per cent to $1,613....
...While 17 per cent of graduates rated starting a company as joint most important reason, only 2 per cent of them saw it as their main sole ambition....
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