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...The average house price fell 1 per cent month on month in March, down to £288,430 from February, when UK house prices hit a 16-month high of £291,338....
...The Baltimore-based group said its adjusted diluted earnings per share were $2.17 in the third quarter, about 23 per cent higher than Wall Street estimates of $1.77 and 17 per cent more than the same quarter...
...Double from DKr1,430 (about £173)....
...The number of workers has recovered to 1,000, according to Cancelloni....
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...Gustavo Petro took 50.5 per cent of the vote versus 47.3 per cent for his main rival Rodolfo Hernández. The new president is expected to usher in the most leftwing government in Colombia’s history....
...The company posted a half-year profit before tax of £430.2m, up 1.7 per cent, for the six months ended December as weaker operating margins offset record completions....
...The continent, which has 17 per cent of the world’s population, has recorded 33,430 deaths from Covid-19, or about 3.5 per cent of the global total....
...Brazil sits at 5.1 per cent, a fraction above the all-time low it hit in April but a shadow of the 16 per cent-plus levels it reached in 2010, while South Africa, once comfortably in double digits, has tumbled...
...On April 17, authorities announced that the pandemic was under control — less than six weeks after Germany’s first deaths from Covid-19....
...A traditional British pint containing 5.2 per cent alcohol equals 3 units....
...The planet is already halfway to the 2C threshold — above which scientists predict catastrophic impacts — while emissions have continued to rise at an average of 1.5 per cent a year this decade....
...Hear Chris Stringer talk about the latest discoveries in human evolution in London on August 5....
...1 — Langkawi, Malaysia Malaysia’s best-known resort island is a funny beast — part sporting-adventure destination (witness its famous zip wires, jungle trails and Ironman ultra-triathlon), part protected...
...In the 190-unit Canaletto Tower on City Road, where Angel merges with Hoxton, Foxtons is marketing a two-bedroom apartment for £1.2m — a 17 per cent reduction on its original listing price of £1.45m in November...
...per cent in Iraq and Yemen, even as they have fallen from 6.5 per cent to 5.1 per cent of GDP in emerging markets as a whole, as depicted in the fourth chart....
...0.00 (0.00%) at 13,059 Currencies €/$ 1.17 (1.17) $/¥ 112.45 (112.62) £/$ 1.32 (1.32) €/£ 0.8861 (0.8863) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.13 at 62.35 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.15 at 56.57 100...
...A student from a household where the income is £50,000 could borrow up to £5,256 in the 16/17 academic year, less than annual rent at the Swansea campus....
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...) at 19,470 Topix down -17.46 (-1.08%) at 1,597 Hang Seng down -179.62 (-0.66%) at 27,165 US markets S&P 500 down -38.10 (-1.54%) at 2,430 DJIA down -274.14 (-1.24%) at 21,751 Nasdaq down -123.20 (-1.94%...
...300 up +0.01 (0.00%) at 1,534 FTSE100 up +30.38 (+0.40%) at 7,538 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,364 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,949 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.18) $/¥ 112.35 (112.44) £/$ 1.32 (1.32...
...One illustration of the complications caused by the separation of NICs and income tax is the plight of people living in Scotland with a taxable income between £43,430 and £45,000....
...Students who began their studies before 2012 start to pay their loan back as soon as their income is more than £17,775, but their interest rate is lower — currently at 1.25 per cent (the bank base rate plus...
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