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...Hungary’s central bank reduced its main policy rate by 1 percentage point last week to 17 per cent, despite headline inflation running at 24 per cent in April....
...Friday–Sunday at 7.30pm, 9pm and 10.30pm Website; Directions With its striking façade of illustrated tiles and mosaics created by Sevillian tiler Alfonso Romero Mesa, this tablao lays claim to be the oldest...
...There are 1.2 acres of gardens with oak trees, a citrus grove, shrubbery and succulents. Why The property is a 20-minute walk from the start of the Romero Canyon Trail....
...In 2021, China’s birth rate fell for the fifth year in a row, to a record low of 7.52 per 1,000 people....
...One standout performance in the city of Buenos Aires was Javier Milei, a 51-year-old outsider who won a congressional seat with 17 per cent of the vote....
...Centuries-old national champions Barclays (€17.4bn), Deutsche Bank (€15.6bn) and Italy’s UniCredit (€17.2bn) are collectively worth less than Zoom, the $72bn (€61bn) videoconferencing company founded in...
...The yield on the three-year government bond due in 2021 steadied at 17.9 per cent, having surged to 20.1 per cent earlier on Thursday....
...His net worth today is estimated at $1.1bn. Unlike many of his peers, Blankfein came from the wrong side of the tracks. He was born in the Bronx in 1954 and grew up in public housing....
...The budget forecast GDP growth of 2 per cent in 2019, slightly higher than market forecasts of 1.8 to 1.9 per cent of GDP....
...Should the administration further vex investors and deter even more investment, GDP growth could fall below 1 per cent....
...The currency, which had been down as much as 1.7 per cent this morning, cut back its losses to just 0.4 per cent to 20.63 after the interest rate move....
...The country has 22 reactors providing up 2.1 per cent of the country’s overall capacity, compared with 17.7 per cent from renewable sources and 58.7 per cent from coal....
...The preliminary result generated a strong rally, pushing the currency 1.7 per cent upwards to trade as high as 18.32 pesos and beyond the May 25 level of 18.34, its previous high of the year....
...Some forecasts are now for 1.7 per cent growth or lower, compared with average market expectations of 2.3 per cent expansion in 2017....
...Jesus Romero, the head of corporate strategy, will take over from Mr Escrig, who had been with Telefónica for 17 years. The shake-up follows a number of blows for the Spanish company....
...That appraisal led to a writedown of their stake from $4m to just $1.24m....
...With official inflation at 181 per cent and the economy shrinking 5.7 per cent in 2015, tensions continue to rise in oil-rich Venezuela....
...The African operation produced an attractive 17 per cent return on equity last year in local currency, but this fell to 8.7 per cent at group level, below its 10 per cent target....
...In Europe, companies excluding financials are expected to see earnings decline 1.2 per cent — while revenues decline by a thumping 5.7 per cent....
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...The peso has recently been hitting low after low, and has sunk 4.8 per cent since the start of this year and 1.7 per cent alone since March 6, Luis Videgaray, the finance minister, noted (though he was quick...
...In 1954, Quandt and his half-brother Herbert inherited an industrial empire built by their father, Günther, a former member of the Nazi party....
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