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...Average fees per term at ISC member schools range from £13,000 at boarding schools to £5,550 at day schools, according to the council’s 2023 annual report....
...Anyone who plays the white side of the Ruy Lopez 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 would be totally shocked to see Black sacrificing his c8 bishop for the h3 pawn 10 moves later....
...Expenses increased by less than sales and, in the final quarter, net income climbed by 23.5 per cent to €1.3bn, slightly ahead of analyst expectations....
...When López Obrador took power in 2018, Mexico spent just 0.5 per cent of gross domestic product on defence, according to the World Bank, less than half the regional average of 1.3 per cent....
...Take me to a vine-shaded terrace in Tuscany . . . £14.99 (for 75cl bottle), 1.5 litre magnum for £28.99 Waitrose Marchiori & Barraud Malbec 2022 Mendoza (14.5%)Bittersweet and completely unlike most Argentine...
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...Morgan Stanley’s share price fell more than 5 per cent after it was first reported....
...The country’s Latino population grew to 19.1 per cent of the total population in 2022, compared to 13 per cent in 2000, according to the latest US census data....
...In the final quarter of the period Inditex posted a net profit of €1bn on sales that grew 13.4 per cent to €9.5bn....
...At $5,600 per sq ft, it is one of the most expensive sold in the area in recent years....
...Czech presidential elections take place on January 13-14....
...John Lobb leather Lopez loafers, £1,055....
...35-45 per cent to 32-42 per cent and in 2020 when it increased private equity holdings from 2-8 per cent to 5-10 per cent and infrastructure from 1-5 per cent to 2-7 per cent....
...Banxico’s board voted 4-1 on Thursday to raise rates 0.5 percentage points to 5.5 per cent after data showed annual inflation hit 7.37 per cent in November, its highest level in 20 years....
...to $5,000....
...If we look at the current level of real yields (-1.13 per cent) and replace it with the 0.5 per cent average, you lift the 10-year by 1.63 to 2.88 per cent....
...Brazil has already raised its reference interest rate four times since March to 5.25 per cent and investors expect another increase of at least 1 percentage point this month, with more to follow....
...struggled to convince members from the banking sector to end financing for the oil and gas sector this year — as required under the International Energy Agency’s pathway for limiting global warming to 1.5...
...The broad-based S&P 500, Wall Street’s dominant equity gauge, closed lower by 0.1 per cent, while the technology-focused Nasdaq Composite index edged up 0.5 per cent....
...Pemex, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sees as a national champion, posted a fourth-quarter net profit of 124.2bn pesos ($5.9bn), a big swing from the loss of 171.5bn pesos in the same quarter...
...Of the 5,000 lenders in the federal programme that insures deposits against bank runs, all but 500 are community banks....
...per cent to 1.5 per cent in 2020....
...on López Obrador to act....
...Although Pemex requires significant amounts of government aid — amounting to at least 1.4 points of GDP a year — it says it delivered nearly 13 pesos to the state in duties and taxes for every peso the federal...
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