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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....
...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....
...When the exchange rate hit $1.13, they thought it was a good time to buy. The other is a three-bedroom apartment in a mansion block south of the high street for £3.5mn....
...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....
...Economists had expected it to fall even further to 6.7 per cent, according to a poll by Reuters....
...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....
...Bootle, which has neighbourhoods in the top 1 per cent most-deprived in the UK, has no such attractions....
...The Swiss lender said on Thursday it would sell 203m convertible notes to existing shareholders as it seeks to lift its common equity tier 1 ratio from 12.2 per cent to 13 per cent....
...The hit has not only been severe, with joblessness rising to 14.7 per cent in April and about 39m Americans left unemployed....
...On a seven-day rolling average, the per cent positive rate is 7.9 per cent, the highest since mid-May....
...Temps gris” (1887), sold in the room for £1.1m (£1.3m with fees, est £600,000-£800,000)....
...In the US, the number of deaths was predicted to hit 1.2 million....
...He joins a growing list of casualties: Germán Martínez quit as head of the state social security agency IMSS, Guillermo García Alcocer as head of energy regulator CRE and Tonatiuh Guillén as head of the...
...When Sovereign Capital bought Greenwich School of Management on April 1, 2011, the London college earned just £8m a year in revenue....
...“We’re talking about several thousand sexual assaults, we’re talking about 1,200 murders, two-thirds of which theoretically could have been prevented. That’s why we passed SB4,” he says....
...Last year the bank produced $1.65 in the same period....
...Japan’s Seven & i Holdings plans to have 1,000 7-Eleven stores in Vietnam by 2027, and Thailand’s B’s Mart chain is aiming for 3,000 locations....
...In North America, sales were down 0.8 per cent to 93,375 in the first quarter. Last month the decline was more stark, falling 2.7 per cent....
...Before you laugh (they lost the semi-final 7-1 to Germany), they were the bookmakers’ favourites too. World Cups are too random to predict....
...The trading operating profit margin in confectionery of 13.7 per cent compared with Nestlé’s overall margin of 15.3 per cent....
...0.00 (0.00%) at 13,368 Currencies €/$ 1.20 (1.20) $/¥ 112.79 (113.05) £/$ 1.36 (1.36) €/£ 0.8825 (0.8817) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.31 at 68.09 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.42 at 62.15 100...
...unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,203 Currencies €/$ 1.21 (1.20) $/¥ 111.31 (111.24) £/$ 1.35 (1.35) €/£ 0.8897 (0.8886) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.29 at 68.97 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.45...
...The FTSE 100 ended off 5.12 points, or 0.1 per cent, at 7,487.96 as Glencore rose 3.5 per cent to 375.6p, BHP Billiton added 3.3 per cent to £14.07 and Anglo American added 3.4 per cent to £14.69....
...Overall tourist arrivals to South Korea dropped 22.7 per cent in 2017, to 13.3m....
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