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...Shares jumped 18 per cent in early trade....
...Their share on onshore bond holdings has dropped from 3.5 per cent at the peak to 2.5 per cent in June 2023. This growing dichotomy can be explained by China’s special characteristics....
...Together, Goldman said the 12 areas accounted for 22 per cent of China’s fixed-asset investment and 18 per cent of gross domestic product last year....
...Influenza hospitalisations increased to 6.8 per 100,000 from 5.1 per 100,000 last week and admissions to intensive care and high dependency units increased week-on-week but remained low....
...Investors were disappointed, however, that its latest quarterly results on Wednesday, for the three months to July 31, pointed to a modest slowdown in sales growth, sending its share price down €1.18 — 3...
...Until August 11; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Cuban Chicken Soup When There’s No More Café’, Arsht Center The world premiere of Elena Maria Garcia and Stuart Meltzer’s hotly anticipated...
...That compared to 18.8 per cent in the first quarter of 2023 and 26.2 per cent a year ago....
...Dollar-denominated bonds and short-term loans stood at slightly more than $1bn, down from $1.5bn a year ago....
...THG’s revenue edged up by less than 3 per cent in 2022, despite inflationary effects, while its operating losses ballooned from £137.5mn to £495.6mn....
...All eyes are on Europe this week as Belgium’s key art and antiques fair, Brafa, opens (January 29-February 5)....
...The pound slipped 0.5 per cent to $1.127 against the dollar, trimming a rally overnight that had sent it as high as $1.137....
...Part of the city of Huzhou in the province of Zhejiang, it is home to around 18,000 small factories for children’s clothing, staffed throughout the year by more than 200,000 migrant workers....
...“I had earned $17mn in the first 18 months. And $330,000 is what I’d taken up until that point,” she says. “Am I a thief? Yeah, a pretty bad one.”...
...By contrast, YouTube advertising revenue rose 25 per cent, to $8.6bn, while the Google Cloud division grew 45 per cent, to $5.5bn....
...At the end of FY2022, Inditex operated 5,815 stores in 213 markets....
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...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s new guide to Madrid Mandarin Oriental Ritz Plaza de la Lealtad 5, 28014 Madrid Rooms and suites: 100 rooms, 53 suites Good for: Traditional luxury, glamour and...
...In the UK, the subvariant accounted for 1 per cent of genomically sequenced cases uploaded to the global repository Gisaid in the week to January 23, up from just 0.5 per cent the week before....
...Just three items — fuel bills, petrol and second-hand cars — account for 1.9 percentage points of the 5.4 per cent CPI inflation we saw in December. There’s a simple reason for this....
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...The food-to-go supplier had been heavily hit by changes in working patterns, but reported a 5 per cent rise in revenues for the year and turned out a £28m profit on revenues of £1.3bn....
...The pound tumbled 1.5 per cent. The moves echoed far beyond UK borders....
.... £137, cafeducycliste.com Rapha Pro Team Lightweight Gilet A jersey will suffice once you’re warmed up during the summer season, but this gilet will stave off the chill on nippy early morning rides....
...All Floridians who are 18 years old and up will become eligible on April 5. New York City is readying to reopen Broadway in September more than a year after it closed due to the coronavirus pandemic....
...The Fifa data spanned June 1 to October 5. It is the first time since 2016 that the value of transfer fees has sunk below $5bn, the data showed....
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