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...Germany European Parliament preliminary result CDU, centre right: 29 per cent (- 7) Greens: 21 per cent (+10) SPD, centre left: 16 per cent (-11) AfD, far right: 11 per cent (+ 3) Die Linke, far left...
...Jaime Rodríguez, an independent, was typically provocative but has single digit support only....
...Mr Rodriguez, who attended Harvard at the same time as Mr Ackman, said the two first spoke on August 1....
...Its share price total return has been 64.1 per cent over three years, compared to 16.7 per cent on the FTSE Europe....
...Japan’s yen was trimming declines from early in the session to be 0.1 per cent stronger at ¥102.71 per dollar, while the euro weakened by 0.1 per cent to $1.1117....
...Using census data, John Burns Real Estate Consultants estimates the number of Mexican-born construction workers in the US fell from 1.89m in 2007 to 1.32m by 2014....
...“If oil were to one day become worthless, Venezuela would go back to the stone age,” says Francisco Rodríguez, a BofA economist....
...As a result, only 16 per cent of total imports are consumer goods, including cars....
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...Shares in Cencosud, Chile’s largest retailer by sales, fell 1.3 per cent on Thursday to 2,567.70 pesos ($5.22). The stock is down more than 16 per cent from its March peak....
...Used copies of the first book are listed on Amazon for upwards of $1,295....
...The national economy is expected to shrink about 1.7 per cent this year....
...Crude oil lost 1.1% in New York. Corn futures jumped 1.7% while wheat snapped a two-day loss....
...Its debt is in excess of 80 per cent of GDP and the budget deficit this year is projected at 5.7 per cent of GDP....
...On a national level, by contrast, it jumped an alarming 16.6 per cent....
...Gross domestic product figures for the second quarter, released on Friday for many of the 16 countries in the bloc, are expected to show a two-speed recovery, with Germany having grown by as much as 1.3...
...At the close, the S&P 500 was up 0.1 per cent to 1,116.03, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.2 per cent to 10,434.17 and the Nasdaq Composite was 0.1 per cent higher to 2,307.16....
...But Qatar’s bid is backed by just 16 per cent while Japan trails badly on 5 per cent, followed by South Korea on a miserable 1.4 per cent....
...Mr Osborne said the budget deficit would fall from 10.1 per cent, or £149bn, this year to 1.1 per cent, or £20bn, in 2015-16....
...With the Commission calculating that the eurozone’s potential economic growth will average just 0.7 per cent this year and 1.5 per cent in the future, the sense of anxiety is palpable....
...It is now known that, in the hours before eurozone leaders put together a €750bn international rescue package on May 7-10 to prevent the 16-nation area’s collapse, Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, received...
...Winston Churchill 7. Dalai Lama 8. David Cameron 9. John McCain, US senator 10. “Che” Guevara 11. Omar al-Bashir, president of Sudan 12. Queen Elizabeth I 13. Gordon Brown 14....
...Spain’s gross domestic product shrank by 1 per cent in the fourth quarter of last year from the previous quarter, and was down 0.7 per cent on the fourth quarter of 2007, according to official statistics...
...The mishandling of the banking crisis led to the suspension of an agreement with the IMF, a sharp drop in prices on about $1.1bn in outstanding bonds and a renegotiation of Paris Club debt....
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