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...Real GDP fell by 3 per cent in 1726 and by 0.6 per cent in 1727. The downturn was quite diffuse....
...Its US business, however, has been hit by the spread of the virus and lack of urban trade, forcing it to close its 17 sites in Boston and Chicago....
...After the bloc’s unemployment rate hit a 12-year low of 6.4 per cent in March, it then only inched up to 6.7 per cent in May....
...JPMorgan, the biggest US bank by assets, has been caught up in the maelstrom, losing 17 per cent of its market value since the turn of the year....
...Minouche Shafik Deputy governor, markets and banking, Bank of England 7. Ajay Banga President and CEO, Mastercard 8. Stacy Brown-Philpot CEO, TaskRabbit 9....
...Compared with the second quarter, net profits were down 1.7 per cent, to €1.68bn, but without exchange rate fluctuation they would have been up 3.8 per cent....
...Reduced provisions for bad loans in the UK, Spain, and Portugal helped drive Banco Santander’s second quarter net profits up 17.6 per cent year on year to €1.71bn, but worries about the Spanish part of the...
...Germany’s 10-year bond yields were also on the move, climbing 17 basis points to 0.7 per cent....
...Just Retirement, an annuity specialist, turned around from losses to rise 2.7 per cent to 155.7p....
...The share of big SUVs such as the Escalade increased 0.3 percentage points to 7.4 per cent, while that of pick-up trucks rose 0.8 percentage points to 14.5 per cent....
...+5.90 (+0.46%) at 1,286 FTSE100 up +38.70 (+0.58%) at 6,713 CAC 40 up +15.03 (+0.35%) at 4,276 Dax up +60.77 (+0.68%) at 8,981 Currencies €/$ 1.38 (1.38) $/¥ 97.21 (97.27) £/$ 1.62 (1.62) Commodities...
...… The Devil in the Marshalsea, by Antonia Hodgson, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£17.99/ Mariner, RRP$15.95 Hodgson’s territory is London in 1727....
...Net income for the quarter fell by 13.1 per cent to €1.15bn....
...by the loans of more than €1tn from the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund still estimates the banks could shed as much as €2tn of assets by 2013, contracting the supply of credit by 1.7...
...Sue Foxley, Cluttons property consultants and estate agents “A 7 per cent stamp duty level would hit Londoners hard....
...A plan filed in the New York bankruptcy court in March by Lehman’s advisers Alvarez & Marsal, the restructuring group, proposes recoveries of 17.4 cents on the dollar for holders of bonds issued by LBHI,...
...Sir Fred remained confident: on October 17 he invested £1.4m in RBS shares, more than doubling his own shareholding in the bank. But this confidence was looking increasingly reckless....
...a $1.9bn deal to bail out Sovereign Bancorp in the US and buy the shares that it did not already own....
...However, the contribution from continental Europe was down 7 per cent at €1.2bn, as weakness in wholesale banking, asset management and insurance activities offset steady growth in the retail operations....
...The civilian unemployment rate climbed 1/2 percentage point in February, to 8.1 percent....
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