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...In the same period, Canada’s population increased 13 per cent, but growth in its housing stock has not kept up. The number of private dwellings grew 5.7 per cent from 2016 to 2021....
...April 5 to 7; further information and tickets here Sport End of the NBA and NHL regular seasons — and Toronto in the playoffs?...
...Participants can choose between distances of 1.6, 5 and 10km — and you might even spot the royal family....
...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....
...Return on equity — a key industry metric for profitability — was 13.6 per cent, down from 14.8 per cent the year before....
...London was again the weakest-performing English region, with annual price growth slowing to 4.1 per cent in the final three months, from 6.7 per cent in the previous quarter....
...Kashmir Loom cashmere kani pashmina, from £1,800Few people can narrate the history of the pashmina with the authority that Kashmir Loom founders Jenny Housego and Asaf Ali can....
...July 13-16, fiberfib.com BBC Proms, UK The Beeb’s annual knees-up is likely to contain something for everyone — from “Berlioz to Bollywood” as the organisers put it....
...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....
...They grew 5.7 per cent, compared with 7 per cent in August, and a further slowdown would reduce the effect of this key booster of GDP....
...About 5 per cent of its population was undernourished in 2014, according to Berdegué, rising to 7.1 per cent in 2017....
...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....
...Output this year is predicted to grow just 0.7 per cent, according to a central bank survey of market economists. The prediction for next year is barely any better, at just 1 per cent....
...BBVA said the transaction would increase profit per share by 13.7 per cent in 2022....
...Art Basel has also created a 1.5m Swiss franc ($1.6m) “one-time solidarity fund” for the equivalent of a 10 per cent fee reduction per gallery after the event....
...“Hong Kong is still seen as the Monte Carlo of China.”...
...Bitcoin ATM operator Athena is reportedly setting up 13 machines in shopping centres....
...Underlying profit dropped almost a third to $5bn from $7.2bn a year earlier....
...“Hedge funds are coming back, but it is a different industry now,” says Carlo Trabattoni, chief executive of Generali Investments, the asset management arm of the Italian insurer....
...In 2020, Bluebell Capital’s first full year, the fund gained 5.7 per cent, according to investors....
...The average cost of a gallon of conventional jet fuel, for instance, is $2.22, while jet biofuels cost about $5.35, so the green premium adds up to $3.13....
...(FT) Slice of Tokyo The FT’s Tokyo correspondent Kana Inagaki typically unearths the latest stories on SoftBank, Carlos Ghosn and Japanese tech....
...It lost that mantle recently to Mexico, but with only 13 members the Mexican billionaire elite is tiny....
...The hit has not only been severe, with joblessness rising to 14.7 per cent in April and about 39m Americans left unemployed....
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