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...The cost of St Mary’s rebuild is estimated to total £2.2bn — although this would be offset by selling land owned by the trust, reducing the contribution from the government to between £1.2-1.7bn....
...Her running total puts sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips at $13.6bn, up 12 per cent from last year and already above the previous high of $13.2bn for the full year 2014....
...The broker’s assets grew from $186mn in 2019 to $1.2bn in 2021, while revenues soared 216 per cent, according to IHC’s 2021 annual report....
...The Bank of Spain says there is a “reasonable doubt” over the full repayment of just 3.9 per cent of all consumer debt, far from the peak of 13.6 per cent in 2013....
...The trade war contributed to an almost 10 per cent decline in revenues, which totalled £1.35bn in 2020-21 versus £1.5bn in the previous period....
...Meanwhile, retail sales jumped 15.9 per cent in December from a year earlier while manufacturing output climbed 13.1 per cent. Both figures smashed analysts’ expectations....
...Of 660 bosses analysed across three major indices — the S&P 500, FTSE 100 and Stoxx 600 excluding UK constituents — 49, or roughly 7 per cent, were found to have negative annualised returns....
...In the 12 months from July 1 2020, far more Americans moved to Florida than any other state — 220,890 of them....
...Early stage backer 5Y Capital holds a 13.7 per cent stake worth $21.8bn....
...Its economy is projected to contract by 6-7 per cent in 2020....
...The hit has not only been severe, with joblessness rising to 14.7 per cent in April and about 39m Americans left unemployed....
...While Chávez rewrote the constitution into a “little blue book”, Mr López Obrador is condensing his economic vision into a tome called The Moral Economy, due out on December 1, to coincide with his first...
...In the UK, in an adult population of 50m, there are 7.2m cradle Catholics, of whom 3.2m are lapsed....
...Those looking for a restored property could consider a 16th-century eight-bedroom palazzo with indoor pool, on the market with the same agency for €13.5m....
...Innolux, the island’s leading liquid crystal display maker and owned by Hon Hai Precision Industry, saw net profit surge to T$37bn New Taiwan dollars ($1.27bn) from T$1.8bn in 2016....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.1 per cent at 21,216.48, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 0.1 per cent at 6,301.13....
...) at 1,514 FTSE100 up +40.69 (+0.55%) at 7,431 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,216 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,452 Currencies €/$ 1.15 (1.15) $/¥ 112.13 (111.95) £/$ 1.30 (1.30) €/£ 0.8843 (0.8844...
...) at 1,519 FTSE100 down -3.49 (-0.05%) at 7,413 CAC 40 up +13.27 (+0.25%) at 5,235 Dax up +14.75 (+0.12%) at 12,641 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 113.31 (113.23) £/$ 1.30 (1.29) €/£ 0.8804 (0.8803) Commodities...
...The bank’s shares gained 0.4 per cent to 216.2p. Jefferies downgraded AstraZeneca’s rating from “buy” to “hold”, which resulted in its shares slipping 1.2 per cent to £47.38....
...) at 19,079 Topix up +16.02 (+1.07%) at 1,519 Hang Seng up +270.19 (+1.12%) at 24,410 US markets S&P 500 up +25.46 (+1.08%) at 2,374 DJIA up +216.13 (+1.05%) at 20,764 Nasdaq up +73.30 (+1.24%) at 5,984...
...Aurélie Bidermann NY, +1-212-335-0604...
...It was down 0.1 per cent in Asia at $1,216 per ounce. Oil prices were up in Asia, with Brent crude rising 0.5 per cent to $55.49 per barrel....
...The euro is down 0.4 per cent at $1.0601, while the dollar is a hefty 1.7 per cent higher versus the yen at ¥114.32....
...In 2018 growth is forecast to slow to 1.6%, before picking up to 1.7%, then 1.9%, and back to 2% in 2021. Resilience in the economy is reflected in a strong labour market....
...In the Liverpool city region, which covers six authorities including the Wirral, tourism accounts for £1.5bn, 7 per cent of GDP....
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