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...Last month, the average price of a home listed in La Salle on Idealista, an Italian property portal, was €3,033 per sq m; in Courmayeur it was €7,575 per sq m....
...Completions totalled 13,575, down 14 per cent year on year, while the average selling price increased by 7 per cent to £230,534....
...Bastian convened a meeting with American Airlines chief executive Doug Parker and former United Airlines chief executive Oscar Munoz....
...The exceptions in Europe are the UK, which was late imposing restrictions, and Sweden, which never implemented any: both were still detecting more than 1,000 new daily cases in the week through June 17....
...So important is it that he has developed a whole saving and investment theory, the “Seven Dollar Millionaire”, to explain how compound interest, combined with a $7 daily savings habit, can yield $1,000 in...
...Employees paid 2.7 per cent to defined contribution schemes. There were 17.3m active members of occupational pension schemes in 2018. Many are not saving enough....
...Assuming bond yields drop to 1%, the resulting 16.7x forward P/E means the S&P 500 would trade at 2900 (7% below the current level)....
...Ten new paintings will be on show, priced between $450,000 and $575,000 each, and two bronze sculptures ($850,000 each)....
...In the UK, the raises benefit about 17,000 employees and 20,000 temporary staff. Amazon employs more than 575,000 worldwide....
...The bank’s most recently raised capital bond — a €1bn additional tier 1 note priced at 5.375 per cent yield in December — fell three cents to 87.5 cents on the euro, equating to a yield of 7.7 per cent....
...In Madrid, for example, the equivalent figures were 9 per cent and 17 per cent; across Spain prices gained 4 per cent in the year and lost 1 per cent over the past three....
...Hot topic 1 In New York, the S&P 500 equity index ended 0.1 per cent higher at 2,575 while the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.4 per cent to a record close of 6,727 as Apple gained 1.4 per cent....
...European markets Eurofirst 300 up +3.72 (+0.24%) at 1,534 FTSE100 up +0.19 (0.00%) at 7,523 CAC 40 up +4.09 (+0.08%) at 5,372 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,991 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.18) $/¥ 113.63...
...A year of elections Feb 4 Costa Rican conservative Fabricio Alvarado Munoz won 25% of the first-round vote, against Carlos Alvarado Quesada’s 22% and they go to the second round Apr 1 Second round in...
...0.44%) at 1,477 FTSE100 up +24.00 (+0.33%) at 7,367 CAC 40 up +6.28 (+0.13%) at 5,000 Dax up +26.85 (+0.22%) at 11,990 Currencies €/$ 1.06 (1.07) $/¥ 115.11 (114.87) £/$ 1.21 (1.22) €/£ 0.8766 (0.8718)...
...Toshi Yoroizuka 9-7-2 Akasaka, 107-0052 (+813-5413 3650; grand-patissier.info), from about £8 for dessert SHOPSDaikanyama Tsutaya 17-5 Sarugakucho, 150-0033 (+813-3770 2525; real.tsite.jp/daikanyama/english...
...It didn’t quite manage that and is now at about $1,750. It’s low point in November last year was $1,575, a drop of 30 per cent since SocGen’s original call....
...By the close, the S&P 500 had nudged up 0.23 per cent to 2,052.23, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.47 per cent to 17,574.75, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.44 per cent to 5,045.17....
...(-0.02%) at 17,863 Nasdaq down -14.74 (-0.29%) at 5,128 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -6.05 (-0.40%) at 1,495 FTSE100 down -47.98 (-0.75%) at 6,365 CAC 40 down -17.79 (-0.36%) at 4,962 Dax down -...
...Software and cloud revenues rose 1 per cent to $7.2bn in the latest quarter, although the company said sales growth would have been 7 per cent if currencies were held constant....
...down -86.22 (-0.48%) at 17,842 Nasdaq down -19.68 (-0.40%) at 4,920 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -7.74 (-0.50%) at 1,548 FTSE100 up +6.16 (+0.09%) at 6,934 CAC 40 up +7.52 (+0.15%) at 4,982 Dax...
...-26.99 (-0.15%) at 18,285 Nasdaq up +1.71 (+0.03%) at 5,072 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +7.60 (+0.47%) at 1,614 FTSE100 up +12.16 (+0.17%) at 7,007 CAC 40 up +16.00 (+0.31%) at 5,133 Dax down -4.86...
...down -195.01 (-1.08%) at 17,841 Nasdaq down -82.22 (-1.64%) at 4,941 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -6.66 (-0.42%) at 1,575 FTSE100 up +14.35 (+0.21%) at 6,961 CAC 40 up +7.10 (+0.14%) at 5,046 Dax...
...(FT) In defence of eReaders They can help to engage and excite children to read, rather than putting them off books (The Conversation) Markets data: Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +114.96 (+0.66%) at 17,575...
...“Nova” is a space for galleries to show new pieces, and this year features work by Oscar Muñoz, Shinro Ohtake and Pedro Reyes....
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