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...Wild Houses by Colin Barrett, Jonathan Cape £16.99/Grove Atlantic $27, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast Life and Art wherever you listen...
...This was a sharp increase on 2021, when it offered $15 per credit to 267 farmers amounting to just under $1mn. Like Loam, Indigo sells the credits to corporate buyers....
...In September 2020 they bought a four-bedroom detached home on three-quarters of an acre (that now includes a swimming pool) in Itchen Abbas, one of the most sought-after villages, four miles north-east of...
...To absorb the lifetime emissions that will be produced by every American alive today — just 4 per cent of the global population — you’d need to plant and permanently maintain trees on more than 16bn acres...
...The Hong Kong company Knight Dragon is behind the £8.4bn Greenwich Peninsula project, which is building 15,000 homes across 150 acres of the riverside Greenwich Peninsula neighbourhood near Canary Wharf...
...Bit by bit, they drew up plans to invigorate its gardens, opening a hotel, spa, farm shop, “cyder” press and garden museum to turn the 800-acre estate into a new visitor attraction....
...The master plan for the expo, which organisers say could attract 25m visitors, envisages a 1,082-acre site, including a gated 370-acre area and surrounding residential, hospitality and logistics zones....
...What A seven-bedroom manor house, with a swimming pool, on nearly eight acres. A guest cottage and further five acres are available by separate negotiation....
...A Shout in the Ruins , by Kevin Powers, Sceptre, RRP£16.99/Little, Brown, RRP$26, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...He raises sheep and cattle on 400 acres of farmland and 2,000 acres of moorland, while also tending one of the oldest herds of Exmoor ponies — small yet hardy creatures well adapted for the poor grazing...
...The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta , by Kushanava Choudhury, Bloomsbury RRP£16.99/$27, 272 pages Amy Kazmin is the FT’s South Asia bureau chief...
...What The 948-acre farm includes a six-bedroom house built in the 18th century....
...Gold was up 0.1 per cent at $1,267.35 an ounce. Intraday In the US, the S&P 500 is expected to dip 0.1 per cent when trading begins in New York....
...Market technicians may argue this represents a necessary consolidation phase after such a strong run that saw the S&P 500 jump 6.6 per cent in just 5 weeks to hit a record closing high of 2,272 on December...
...It features six bedrooms, several outbuildings and 17 acres of land....
...Sept. manufacturing PMI est. 51.3 (prior 51.5) In the US, at 1.30pm UK time initial unemployment claims for the week ended September 26 are expected to show a modest rise to 272,000 from a previous 267,000...
...In the US, ahead of Friday’s non-farm payrolls, initial unemployment claims for the week ending August 1 are at 1.30pm London time and are expected to rise to 272,000 from 267,000 a week earlier....
...) Markets Data 05:26 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +222.04 (+1.15%) at 19,601 Topix up +13.32 (+0.84%) at 1,601 Hang Seng up +137.29 (+0.50%) at 27,715 US markets S&P 500: +1.35% at 2,116 DJIA up +267.05...
...in the terms,’ he said.“ Markets data at 0755 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +241.72 (+1.25%) at 19,621 Topix up +10.57 (+0.67%) at 1,598 Hang Seng up +213.58 (+0.77%) at 27,791 US markets DJIA up +267.05...
...He also found that just 6 per cent of its hosts made up more than a third of its total revenues, with one host operating 272 units in the city....
...So far this year, the Cat Bond index has risen to 272....
...Gold returned to favour, hitting a two-month high of $1,272 an ounce on Friday before paring its gain to trade $3 higher at $1,267 – a rise of $14 on the week....
...A detached property in the town costs an average of £537,000 while a terraced home sells at £272,500, according to website Zoopla....
...“Ten acres of walnuts, a few acres for the house and lawn, a couple of acres for the driveway. Everyone else was bunched up in quarter-acre lots or smaller.”...
...China even tried to lease 2.5m acres of the Philippines to grow crops to be sent home during the 2007 food crisis, a negotiated land-grab akin to Sudan’s leasing of 1.5m acres of farmland to the Gulf States...
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