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...The average price of a house there is €3,664 per sq m, according to Meilleurs Agents, up 23.6 per cent in five years, yet down 2.7 per cent over the past two, since interest rates have risen....
...It’s all in the price,” said Tatjana Greil-Castro, co-head of public markets at Muzinich & Co....
...As you say, he's had a pretty substantive record in the 2 and 1/2 years. He's in Japan. He's at Hiroshima for the G7....
...“If you look back to . . . 2015, 16, 17, 18, when we were raising rates, inflation was very close to 2 per cent, even below,” he said....
...Spaghetti with oil and garlic £5 Suckling pig porchetta £28 Borlotti beans £7 Glass of Sagrantino x 2 £30 Sparkling water x 2 £8 Almond granita £7 Gelato £4 Americano £3 Total (inc service) £272.25...
...Conceived as a small art fair of about 24 booths within another fair (Fine Art Asia, October 4-7), the inaugural Masterpiece Pavilion in Hong Kong will now instead be a showcase of objects sent by a dozen...
...Dubbed the underground superhighway, it is going to cost $7.2bn. 10. Deepfakes are an El Dorado for online swindlers....
...Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,184 Currencies €/$ 1.17 (1.17) $/¥ 113.43 (113.53) £/$ 1.33 (1.33) €/£ 0.8812 (0.8814) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.72 at 64.06 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.45...
...Even communist Cuba will get a new president when Raúl Castro steps down on April 19, the first time in 60 years that a Castro brother has not held the post....
...Latin America is not compellingly cheap at present, trading at a trailing price/earnings multiple of 17.7, according to MSCI. The p/e for emerging markets as a whole is 15.1....
...But while the Brazilian football team is expected to do well this year — it could hardly get worse than the 7-1 defeat Brazil suffered to Germany in 2014 — the 2018 election could go either way....
...The region as a whole trades at a trailing price/earnings multiple of 17.7, according to MSCI, which is above the p/e for emerging markets as a whole, of 15.1....
...São Paulo’s benchmark Ibovespa equity index closed at 62,188.09 points, up 1.8 per cent on the day but down nearly 8 per cent since the JBS scandal broke on May 17....
...DJIA down -19.04 (-0.09%) at 20,052 Nasdaq down -3.21 (-0.06%) at 5,664 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -8.67 (-0.60%) at 1,428 FTSE100 down -16.15 (-0.22%) at 7,172 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at...
...December 1: Cubans line the streets as Fidel Castro’s funeral cortege makes its cross-country journey from Havana to Santiago de Cuba....
...markets Eurofirst 300 down -2.78 (-0.21%) at 1,337 FTSE100 down -43.02 (-0.63%) at 6,750 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,501 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,664 Currencies €/$ 1.07 (1.07) $/¥ 109.28...
...The Colombian peso, having tumbled by as much as 3 per cent earlier in the day, is now down just 1.7 per cent at 2,931.17 per dollar....
...as 0.7 per cent....
...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....
...-92.26 (-0.52%) at 17,664 Nasdaq down -20.53 (-0.40%) at 5,054 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +0.18 (+0.01%) at 1,484 FTSE100 down -34.71 (-0.54%) at 6,361 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,898 Dax...
...At July 4, it had 1,664 shops. Its target is 2,000, with net growth this year of 20-30, rising to 30-50 in 2016....
...iTraxx SovX Western Europe +1.89bps at 23.7bp Markit iTraxx Europe +1.26bps at 61.2bp Markit iTraxx Xover +7.42bps at 274.83bp Markit CDX IG +1.98bps at 68.54bp Sources: FT, Bloomberg, Markit...
...Markets Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +50.38 (+0.24%) at 20,664 Topix up +7.73 (+0.46%) at 1,674 Hang Seng down -155.02 (-0.63%) at 24,359 US markets DJIA down -10.22 (-0.06%) at 17,540 Nasdaq up +34.40...
...A parallel 1.3 per cent fall in like-for-like UK sales compares with 1.7 per cent in the fourth quarter....
...The S&P 500 fell 0.8 per cent to 2,028.26, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5 per cent to 17,640.84. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.8 per cent to 4,664.71....
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