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...The increase in the BoE’s benchmark rate to a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent has made it harder for many households to afford a home loan, so boosting rental demand....
...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....
...Vicien Malbec 2017 Catamarca, Argentina 13.5%This organically farmed estate 1,600 metres up the Andes is so remote that in 2010 Simon Taylor was apparently only the second wine merchant ever to visit....
...5.8 per cent this year....
...2018: Polymath No. 968 May 5 2018: Puzzle 15,850 May 4 2018: Puzzle 15,849 May 3 2018: Puzzle 15,848 May 2 2018: Puzzle 15,847 May 1 2018: Puzzle 15,846 April 30 2018: Puzzle 15,845 April 28 2018:...
...Redrow’s call came as it reported a 21 per cent rise in pre-tax profit to a record £380m in the year to June, while revenue was up 16 per cent to £1.92bn....
...“The bandido [criminal] enters your house, robs you, beats up your wife and child, and nothing happens,” complains Edson Campos, a farmer with 1,700 hectares of crops and 5,000 cattle....
...) at 1,518 FTSE100 down -33.23 (-0.46%) at 7,204 CAC 40 down -4.37 (-0.08%) at 5,267 Dax down -5.78 (-0.05%) at 12,438 Currencies €/$ 1.09 (1.09) $/¥ 112.06 (111.83) £/$ 1.29 (1.29) €/£ 0.8465 (0.8457)...
...He is trying to set up a business with a 25,000 peso ($1,200) government grant, but “you don’t know anyone and people don’t trust us as we don’t have references,” he says....
...(+1.13%) at 16,337 Nasdaq down -12.71 (-0.28%) at 4,504 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -21.60 (-1.64%) at 1,296 FTSE100 down -84.87 (-1.43%) at 5,837 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,227 Dax unchanged...
...Gold was up $5 at $1,139 an ounce....
...Why The house is a 40-minute drive from the Piazza del Campo in Siena, the setting for the Palio del Siena horse race....
...KB Home shares sank 5 per cent to $16.07, while other homebuilders were less affected. Lennar, PulteGroup and DR Horton each fell less than 1 per cent to $39.96, $18.33 and $21.19, respectively....
...At a cost of about 0.5 per cent of gross domestic product, the stipend has been hailed as a success, contributing to a decline in poverty from more than 16 per cent of the population in 2007 to 9 per cent...
...The rate of investment in the first half fell to 16.5 per cent of GDP – an eight-year low....
...) at 14,943 Topix down -8.68 (-0.70%) at 1,235 Hang Seng down -14.57 (-0.06%) at 23,305 ASX 200 down -2.35 (-0.04%) at 5,403 US markets S&P 500 up +6.05 (+0.31%) at 1,936 DJIA up +41.55 (+0.25%) at 16,776...
...Africa South Africa: The unemployment rate edged down to 24.1 per cent in the final quarter of 2013 from 24.5 per cent in the third quarter....
...(That is $913 a minute, say the company’s statisticians with a zeal that positively bounces off its website.)...
...cent to 913.5p....
...down -0.08% at 1,189 Hang Seng down -0.17% at 22,937 Shanghai Composite up +0.15% at 2,241 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.16% at 459.01 CNX Nifty up +0.28% at 5,913 Currencies €/$ 1.33 (1.33) $/¥ 100.21 (100.39...
...5,859 Currencies €/$ 1.29 (1.29) $/¥ 101.26 (100.95) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.25 at 107.18 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.08 at 103.06 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +19.60 at 1,255...
...The shares fell 5.3 per cent to €8.57, against a 1 per cent fall on the benchmark FTSE MIB to 16,767.66....
...(Bloomberg) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -105.31 (-0.76%) at 13,694 Topix down -5.09 (-0.44%) at 1,153 Hang Seng up +219.60 (+0.97%) at 22,910 US markets S&P 500 up +16.83 (+1.05%...
...Separately, in a regulatory filing on the eve of a US holiday weekend, News Corp added that it would take an non-cash impairment charge of $1.2bn-$1.4bn against its publishing assets....
...RTS down -0.07% at 1,481 Warsaw Wig down -0.16% at 42,913 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.26% at 1,105 Americas DJIA up +0.07% at 13,333 S&P 500 up +0.21% at 1,437 Bovespa up +0.84% at 59,922 Asia Nikkei 225...
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