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...The majority of funds (67 per cent) said QE had been a beneficial force at first, stabilising financial markets after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and supporting the longest bull run in history....
...Prices have risen by 34 per cent in Boston, 55 per cent in Houston, 67 per cent in Los Angeles and a whopping 96 per cent in San Francisco. The young are locked out....
...at the IPO price and are now selling 67% higher....
...67 percent of Americans turn to social media for news, according to a 2017 Pew Research Center survey....
...However distressed debt has bounced to nearly 70 cents on the dollar, from a seven-year low of 51 cents in January....
...The central bank is widely expected to keep interest rates on hold, but markets will be closely watching if the RBA tweaks its language toward the Australian dollar, which hit a seven-month high in March...
...significant changes since January in such areas as yen appreciation and the Bank of Japan’s adoption of a negative interest rate policy [Nirp]”....
...The pound fell as much as 2.4 per cent to a low of $1.4058, its weakest level versus the US currency in seven years, after Boris Johnson, London’s mayor, added his support to a push to leave the EU....
...The US central bank’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged on Thursday hardly came as a surprise — indeed, the futures market had priced in a less than 30 per cent chance of a rise....
...Even the 1970s, a decade associated with stagflation and an energy crisis, generated a 27 percent increase in jobs....
...traded small cap common stock index.Of eighty-eight venture funds in our sample, sixty-six failed to deliver expected venture rates of return in the first twenty-seven months (prior to serial fundraises...
...(Reuters) “China needs to sustain economic growth of 7.2 percent to ensure a stable job market, Premier Li Keqiang said in remarks published on Monday, one of the few times a top official has stated the...
...(FastFT) Australia holds interest rate steady at a record low 2.5 per cent....
...(WSJ) “China’s benchmark money-market rate dropped to the lowest level in more than a week after the central bank injected cash into the financial system… The seven-day repurchase rate, a gauge of funding...
...Officials also left the band for the benchmark interest rate unchanged at zero percent to 0.25 per cent (Bloomberg)....
...However, Glencore Xstrata’s interest in a bid may take a back seat to its need to integrate itself fully after its recent merger (Wall Street Journal)....
...(Financial Times) A fire at a garment factory in Dhaka killed at least seven people, highlighting the dangers plaguing the Bangladeshi clothing industry two weeks after another factory collapsed in the...
...The western baby boom itself began after the second world war and ended with the swinging sixties in 1970. In some countries, it came in a shorter and more concentrated form....
...Gross domestic product eased to an annualized 1.2 percent in the third quarter from the previous three months, when it grew a revised 3.4 percent, Statistics South Africa said in report released in Pretoria...
...In less than two weeks last month, Sri Lanka let its currency weaken to a record low by shifting toward a more freely floating exchange rate, raised fuel prices and boosted interest rates for the first time...
...for owner-occupied housing by seven percent....
...A small increase in the Fed’s interest rate had triggered an increase in foreclosures....
...The government employment report disappointed as the unemployment rate rose to a seven-month high of 9.8 per cent....
...2.85 percent), along with the Reno-Sparks metro area in Nevada (2.67 percent) and the Florida metro areas of Port St....
...Italy’s biggest bank, UniCredit , rose to a seven-week high after its 2009 net profit beat forecasts and the bank returned a cash dividend to its shareholders....
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