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...The IMF forecasts that Macau’s economy will grow 13.9 per cent in real terms this year, following growth of 80.5 per cent last year, making it one of the world’s fastest-growing economies....
...The slimmed-down sale made £82.2mn (£99.7mn with fees), within revised estimates but down on last year’s equivalent £147.9mn (£174.7mn with fees)....
...Colombia was the fastest-growing major Latin America economy in 2022, expanding GDP by 7.5 per cent, but growth is forecast to be just 1 per cent in 2023, according to the IMF....
...Sport: Game four of the NBA finals takes place tonight with the Denver Nuggets leading Miami Heat 2-1 in the series....
...The country’s deficit was more than 5 per cent of GDP in 2021, with the debt burden growing....
...that the company hopes will raise a further £5.5m....
...At 5 o’clock in the morning, Boingoc Dinh awoke on a cool hospital floor and realised she wasn’t all right....
...It was unclear, however, whether any of the 13,000 refugees who inhabited Moria would be among those taken in by Germany....
...(FT) News round-up EQT Is said to approach $13 billion carrier KPN on takeover (Bloomberg) CVC and Advent seek break clause on their €1.6bn Italian football deal (FT) Cellnex buys CK Hutchison European...
...In the UK, donations increased, totalling £5.4bn – £800m more than during the same period in 2019....
...Security and the rule of law are the top concern of his organisation’s 1,450 corporate members, almost four out of 10 of which already spend more than 5 per cent of their operating budgets on security....
...Members of the US Congress are paid $174,000....
...Of the record 13,600MW of clean energy deals that companies completed in the US last year, 5,500MW was in Texas and the majority of that was solar, according to the BloombergNEF/BCSE survey....
...Together, these sectors account for around 13% of eurozone GDP....
...After 10 rounds, Alice is 1 win ahead. After 13 rounds, one or the other is 1 ahead. At round 20, one of them attains the 5-win lead and the game ends....
...Consumer prices 1.7 per cent in the year to November....
...Crest Nicholson was the top performer among housebuilders, up 5.4 per cent to 553p, while Persimmon added 2.1 per cent to £25.82 and Taylor Wimpey rose 1.9 per cent to 195.5p....
...A total of 3,000 units of strategic land were acquired, taking the strategic land bank up to 18,174 units, while the short-term land bank rose to 16,260, equivalent to 5.5 years of supply....
...In September Paulson, the US hedge fund manager, talked of the “dreadful returns” from the world’s 13 largest listed gold extractors....
...If you save £1,666.67 a month, and assuming 5 per cent annual growth, then in just over four years you could have a £90,000 pot to pay for education, says Ms Currie....
...At the end of 2016, AirAsia operated 174 planes compared with Lion Air’s 272....
...) at 7,479 CAC 40 down -3.69 (-0.07%) at 5,266 Dax down -17.63 (-0.14%) at 12,672 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 109.52 (109.79) £/$ 1.30 (1.30) €/£ 0.8686 (0.8684) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up...
...Crude (Nymex) down -0.11 at 53.65 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -5.80 at 1,174 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 2.53 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.36% Germany 0.26% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx...
...Gold, which rallied in the previous session to a five week intraday high of $1,185 an ounce as the buck retreated, is down $6 to $1,174....
...Hubble, an online platform for shared office space, says it lists more than 1,500 London offices with prices from £100 to £1,000 per desk per month....
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