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...Germany emerged as one of Israel’s most vocal supporters in the wake of the surprise attack by Hamas on October 7, during which militants killed 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage, according to Israeli...
...Until April 7. further information and tickets here Gary Simmons: Public Enemy presents the most in-depth showcase to date of the multidisciplinary artist, spanning three decades and featuring 70 works....
...Mountain 16-18 Beak Street, London W1F 9RD Apart from, possibly, The Devonshire, the launch of Mountain was the most insanely hyped and talked-about London opening of 2023....
...A simple tapas plate is available for €16....
...UK residents put £75bn into 13m adult Isas in the 2019-20 tax year — £7.1bn more than the year before....
...With 16 candidates in the race, that is a tall order. If no one reaches either threshold, the election will go to a second round in April....
...Inditex, the world’s biggest clothing retailer, has slumped to its first quarterly loss as a public company and announced a €2.7bn plan that will see up to 1,200 stores closed as part of a push to drive...
...In the run-up to M&G’s fund suspension, its valuers, Knight Frank, slashed £75.6m, or 7.7 per cent, from the value of its retail assets, which make up almost 40 per cent of the portfolio....
...Nicaragua’s central bank said the economic activity index for July contracted 4.2 per cent and the year-to-date contraction was 1.7 per cent....
...That left the gauges down 13.1 per cent and 16.7 per cent from their respective peaks....
...(Nikkei Asian Review) Land-owning gentry Half of England is owned by less than 1 per cent of its population....
...Consumer staples were close behind with a 1.7 per cent drop, while energy led the way with a 1.5 per cent gain on the back of higher oil prices....
...Incidents on buses run by Arriva London rose 31 per cent to 1,600 between 2015-16 and 2017-18, and on Abellio’s 47 routes they more than doubled, albeit from a much lower number....
...It aims to cut 2,000 out of 16,000 staff, more than halve its non-performing asset ratio to below 6 per cent of total loans and boost return on equity from 6.7 per cent to 10.8 per cent....
...The Queen has the plate A 7. Who knows what that’s worth? A 1 was secured by Earl Russell and Buck House must have been seventh in the queue....
...The country’s major equity index, the Ibex 35, is up 16 per cent over the past year, despite the Catalonia crisis....
...300 up +2.99 (+0.20%) at 1,534 FTSE100 down -14.98 (-0.20%) at 7,508 CAC 40 up +5.93 (+0.11%) at 5,366 Dax up +20.46 (+0.16%) at 12,976 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.17) $/¥ 112.65 (112.66) £/$ 1.32 (1.31) Commodities...
...Like for like sales growth in the 15 weeks to January 7 increased to 1.7 per cent, with particularly strong growth of 4.7 per cent over the Christmas period....
...Populist anti-elitist Congressman Henry Gonzalez (D-TX) successfully pushed the notoriously secretive Federal Reserve to release transcripts of its monetary policy meetings and staff presentation materials...
...The markets at 07:31 Indices Topix: -1.02% at 1,336 Hang Seng: -0.92% at 23,469 Nikkei: -1.25% at 16,545 S&P 500: -0.57% at 2,165 DJIA: -0.71% at 18,261 Nasdaq: -0.63% at 5,306 Eurofirst 300: -0.72% at 1,360...
...The number of billionaires worldwide fell by 16 to 1,810, with overall wealth also falling to $6.48tn — down from $7.05tn the year before....
...Mr Gonzalez said Cemex was stepping up asset sales plans, with a further $1bn to $1.5bn divestment target on top of the $700m achieved by December 2015 under the previous 18-month divestment plan....
...At Christie’s New York on December 16, a 1957 Audemars Piguet perpetual calendar wrist watch with a low presale estimate of $150,000 sold for $545,000, while a 1937 chronograph by the same maker realised...
...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....
...Printed silk pyjama shirt, £1,160; printed silk boxing shorts, £545; Match-Up sneaker, £390; all Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.co.uk 2 Twenty million surfers can’t be wrong....
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