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...May 3 to 5; further information and tickets here Festivals Redland International Orchid Festival, Fruit and Spice Park This festival attracts crowds in the thousands each year....
...May 3 to 17; further information and tickets here ‘Hadestown’, CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre The Tony- and Grammy-winning musical heads to Toronto....
...My average score was just over 15.5 out of 20, but I gave two 17.5s and nine 17s....
...Eurozone inflation, at 5.3 per cent, is too far off the ECB’s 2 per cent target for the central bankers to halt rate rises, especially with oil prices on the up and wages rising rapidly....
...While estimates vary, public housing represents roughly 2 per cent of Portugal’s housing stock and between 1 and 3 per cent of all homes in Spain — below the EU average of 7.5 per cent and far off France...
...Last week Sánchez unveiled a €10bn set of measures to ease the cost of living crisis....
...Chart du jour: Stabilising cost UK 10-year bond yields fell to 3.29 per cent yesterday, down from 4.5 per cent in late September, suggesting that markets will be more tolerant of Rishi Sunak’s budget plans...
...per cent of the region’s population and 3.8 per cent of its cases....
...A starter home would cost around $1.3m, which, at 3.5 per cent interest over 30 years, would equate to monthly mortgage payments of around $5,000....
...Wall Street is expecting a similar 17 per cent growth in revenues, to $62.5bn, with earnings of $5.58 a share. Facebook, Twitter, Snap, and Intel complete the tech line-up....
...*) The Freedom party lost ground, down 2.2 percentage points at 17.5 per cent, but the damage was less severe then anticipated....
...The Foundation for Renewable Energy is calling on the government to make 500,000 buildings a year energy efficient, creating jobs in a country where unemployment is 15.3 per cent....
...Beatriz Sánchez, whose leftist party was formed by radical students who came to prominence during mass street protests in 2011, secured 20.3 per cent — more than double pollsters’ predictions....
...Mr Guillier’s nearest rival was Beatriz Sánchez, whose party was formed by students who came to prominence during mass street protests in 2011, who had 20.3 per cent....
...1.38 (1.38) €/£ 0.8825 (0.8811) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.11 at 69.27 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.06 at 64.03 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,338 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 3.17...
...Ahead of an investor day on December 1, Glencore took on 5.3 per cent to 282.5p....
...The central bank’s 2017 forecast is 2.2 to 3.3 per cent, but some analysts even predict recession if Mr Trump implements everything he has said, such as dismantling the North American Free Trade Agreement...
...The peso — a barometer of traders’ sentiment about what a Trump presidency could bring — initially shed more than 17 per cent in hectic post-election trading but has steadied in recent sessions....
...The company expects profits in the range of $3.09 to $3.14 a share, shy of analysts’ estimates for $3.17 a share....
...Qinetiq increased its final dividend from 3.6p to 3.8p, giving a total of 5.7p (5.4p), payable out of underlying earnings per share of 16.3p (15.2p)....
...Rents charged on newly let London homes dropped 0.5 per cent in July from a year earlier to £1,280 a month....
...At the close of trade, the S&P 500 had risen 0.6 per cent to 2,027.2, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.4 per cent to 17,325.8, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8 per cent to 4,763.9....
...2016 Flagstaff Area National Monuments, Arizona, US [17]Area: 150 sq kmDesignated: May 3 2016(also first International Dark Sky City, 2001) Great Basin National Park, Utah, US [23]Area: 312.3 sq kmDesignated...
...It has been as high as 794.3 and as low as 763.49 as it tracks the twists and turns of the prospects of a deal....
...One of MexFam’s workshops in the area was run by a 17-year-old who ended up pregnant herself....
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