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...Average total pay over the three months to August was down from 8.5 to 8.1 per cent and excluding bonuses was down from 7.9 per cent to 7.8 per cent....
...Public auction sales rose 25 per cent in the first half of this year to a record $7.4bn, up from $5.9bn in the same period in 2021 and $1.8bn in the pandemic-struck first half of 2020, according to a new...
...The S&P 500 closed down by 2.1 per cent at a 17-month low and is now off by 17.5 per cent from its September 20 peak....
...Wetherby Prep school currently charges £7,525 a term....
...The betting duty that makes it Hong Kong’s biggest taxpayer — it contributed 7 per cent of the total in 2017 — dates from 1931 and transformed the club, founded in 1884 by business magnates and equestrian...
...A year of elections Feb 4 Costa Rican conservative Fabricio Alvarado Munoz won 25% of the first-round vote, against Carlos Alvarado Quesada’s 22% and they go to the second round Apr 1 Second round in...
...Prices range from $1.49m for a one-bedroom apartment to $7.87m for a four-bedroom home, available through Douglas Elliman....
...The Catalan regional government, of which he is a senior member, has vowed to hold a referendum on secession on October 1....
...Who Corcoran, corcoran.com, tel: +1 212 836 1055 Oceana Southern, the Palm Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, $7.48m Where On a frond of Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, an artificial archipelago just off the...
...——————- ROUND 1 NAME THAT FINANCE MINISTER 1....
...A more cumbersome and recent client was the Aga Khan III, who dropped almost half a stone to 16st 7¼ in 1931 “after influenza”....
...Assets under management $1.4tn (as at June 2014) Employees More than 7,000 Headquarters Los Angeles, with 26 offices around the world Ownership Privately held...
...They include M&G Investments, which created the UK’s first unit trust in 1931, and Standard Life, the Scottish insurer....
...Books must have been published – in the UK or US – after January 1 2014. Lorien Kite is the FT’s books editor Illustrations by Chris Wormell...
...… The Devil in the Marshalsea, by Antonia Hodgson, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£17.99/ Mariner, RRP$15.95 Hodgson’s territory is London in 1727....
...When Britain abandoned gold in September 1931, it unleashed a wave of competitive devaluations....
...At 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning the BBC’s business editor Robert Peston publishes an account on his blog.1 Peston had been briefed late the night before and then again first thing that morning....
...27.89 (-0.78%) at 3,554 Dax down -8.44 (-0.11%) at 7,404 Currencies €/$ 1.31 (1.31) $/¥ 78.55 (78.68) £/$ 1.63 (1.62) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.47 at 114.26 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.44 at...
...Suppose that in June 2007 you had been told that the UK 10-year bond would be yielding 1.54 per cent, the US Treasury 10-year 1.47 per cent and the German 10-year 1.17 per cent on June 1 2012....
...The “Evans” in point one is Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, who laid out his proposal in a speech on October 17....
...fallen (current account deficit just 0.5 per cent of GDP) ii) the OECD expects only GER and CAN among the G7 to have lower debt/GDP than the UK in 2013 iii) the UK budget deficit is expected to fall to 1.7...
...In New York, the S&P 500 has already fallen 41 per cent this year, marking its worst run since a drop of 47.1 per cent in 1931 during the Great Depression....
...The Dow lost 33.8 per cent, its worst annual decline since the index fell 52.7 per cent in 1931....
...Consumer staples, healthcare and utilities were the best performing sectors, yet still dropped 17.7 per cent, 24.5 per cent and 31.6 per cent, respectively....
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