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...These include Copenhagen, IESE (Barcelona) and Yale as well as the Brazilian institutions São Paulo university and Fundação Getulio Vargas....
...Ms Añez polls at 16.5 per cent but her popularity has grown and she could unite those who oppose the MAS in a second round....
...The IMF expects far worse: it estimates a contraction in Brazil’s economy of 5.3 per cent, deeper than the 3.5 per cent decline in 2015 and far worse than the 0.1 per cent contraction in 2009 during the...
...Justice minister Judit Varga indicated in an interview published last weekend in Die Welt that some of the emergency decrees could become permanent....
...Investors ploughed $16.8bn last year into ETFs run by JPMorgan Asset Management, up from just $1.6bn in 2017, according to ETFGI, a London consultancy....
...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:...
...“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....
...Gold found support, rising 0.5 per cent to $1,233.1, having fallen more than 1 per cent on Thursday when it touched its lowest level since mid-March....
...Mr Varga said the government is still sticking to growth forecasts of 2.5 per cent this year and 3.1 per cent next year....
...At market close, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both rose 0.5 per cent to 1,961.05 and 4,822.34, respectively. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6 per cent to close at 16,433.09....
...US RBOB gasoline futures rose 5 per cent to $1.53 a gallon....
...After the UK government cut duty on bingo from 20 per cent to 10 per cent in the 2014 Budget, Rank spent £3.4m cutting prices, £1.1m on sprucing up its venues and £1.5m on new events and prizes....
...(-0.48%) at 16,201 Nasdaq down -18.26 (-0.38%) at 4,734 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -28.82 (-2.11%) at 1,337 FTSE100 down -70.75 (-1.17%) at 5,961 CAC 40 up +70.63 (+1.62%) at 4,418 Dax up +169.29...
...Markets Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -298.52 (-1.63%) at 17,966 Topix down -17.82 (-1.20%) at 1,462 Hang Seng up +4.67 (+0.02%) at 21,509 US markets S&P 500 up +8.76 (+0.45%) at 1,961 DJIA up +102.69...
...This year’s Food & Wine Classic festival in Aspen saw actress Drew Barrymore drop by to promote her brand of Pinot Grigio and about 5,000 visitors — who had paid up to $1,450 a ticket — enjoy talks tailored...
...The main London market returned from its four-day break with a rise of 1.9 per cent to 6,961.77, a gain of 128 points....
...down -195.01 (-1.08%) at 17,841 Nasdaq down -82.22 (-1.64%) at 4,941 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -6.66 (-0.42%) at 1,575 FTSE100 up +14.35 (+0.21%) at 6,961 CAC 40 up +7.10 (+0.14%) at 5,046 Dax...
...Its consensus on growth in gross domestic product is down for the fourth consecutive week at just 1.16 per cent this year; for next year, it fell for the fifth week to 1.6 per cent....
...Hang Seng up +221.53 (+0.91%) at 24,438 ASX 200 down -7.31 (-0.13%) at 5,576 US markets S&P 500 down -9.64 (-0.48%) at 1,978 DJIA down -123.23 (-0.72%) at 16,961 Nasdaq down -22.54 (-0.50%) at 4,450 European...
...Hang Seng up +55.03 (+0.24%) at 23,277 ASX 200 down -21.06 (-0.39%) at 5,424 US markets S&P 500 up +3.74 (+0.19%) at 1,961 DJIA up +5.71 (+0.03%) at 16,852 Nasdaq up +18.88 (+0.43%) at 4,398 European...
...construction, growth in the fourth quarter may have reached around 2.5 per cent....
...Some 5,000 Chachapoyas lived here, accessing the citadel through 60m-long alleyways that tapered such that only one person at a time could enter....
...Revenues edged 5 per cent higher to $1.07bn, ahead of Wall Street forecasts....
...MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.90% at 531.95 CNX Nifty down -0.63% at 5,887 Currencies €/$ 1.31 (1.31) $/¥ 99.16 (99.06) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.07 at 102.97 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.10 at...
...Pre-tax profits rose to £2.2m in the period, from £1.8m, and Linn added £2.3m to its cash reserves after £961,000 of capital expenditure....
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