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...Iron Bar owns more than 25,000 acres in Wyoming, according to analysis of property records by the FT, nearly all of it on or around Elk Mountain and purchased in 2005....
...According to appraiser Miller Samuel, the median price for a Miami Beach condo rose 4.5 per cent in the third quarter from the same period a year earlier. The number of sales dropped 13.8 per cent....
...In the EU, a wine labelled 13.5 per cent could actually be less than 13 per cent or more than 14 per cent. 117. Should natural wine production be legislated?...
...Two-speed cycle The UK is often described as having a two-speed market, with London and the Southeast portending recovery or stagnation ahead of the rest of the country....
...All but six of the FTSE 100 have an expected dividend yield of 1 per cent or more, along with 363 of the 623 stocks in the FTSE All-Share....
...The discount was at the time 67.8 per cent to the day-before price, or a 39 per cent discount versus a theoretical ex rights of 11.3p....
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...Tax revenues from different types of wealth taxes in the UK or the US is around 4 per cent of GDP; in Germany it’s one-quarter of that....
...“We are [now] more or less advisers,” she said, referring to family members. “Some of us are nonexecutives so that it will go beyond a family business,” she told the Nikkei Asian Review....
...Our survey found that 60.8 per cent of respondents expect an annual return of 5 per cent or less on their overseas investment....
...• The FT reserves the right to publish the names of the firm or lawyers contained in the shortlist of outstanding entries, details and description of all entries and details of winners....
...of under-25s in countries such as Indonesia....
...Today I am announcing a complete reform of a tax that has been described as one of our worst-designed and most damaging of all taxes....
...Recent figures from the CML show that London has 25 per cent of the UK’s mortgage debt and only 13 per cent of the population with a substantially larger rental sector....
...After doing so, decide if you like one or more areas better than the others, and focus there....
...Then it will fall to 4.2 per cent, 2.4 per cent and reach 0.8 per cent in 2017-18. In 2018-19, they are forecasting no deficit at all – instead, at plus 0.2 per cent, a small surplus....
...UK property over all other indicators of wellbeing....
...We are a small island nation with not enough of the right type of properties in the right areas....
...But in most other respects Plan A has already mutated in Plan B, though no one in the government or opposition has an interest in saying so....
...This does not include the 400 or so tonnes of gold sold a decade ago for £2 billion, and which would now be worth six times that at over £13 billion pounds....
...An economy where prosperity is shared among all sections of society and all parts of the country. In this Budget everyone will be asked to contribute. But in return we make this commitment....
...The economy stabilised in the first quarter of 2009-10 itself, when it clocked a GDP growth of 6.1 per cent, as against 5.8 per cent in the fourth quarter of the preceding year....
...On June 8, Real Madrid (who else?) signed Brazilian international Kaká from AC Milan for £56m....
...The revenue deficit as a percentage of GDP is projected at 4.8% compared to 1% in BE 2008-09 and 4.6% as per provisional accounts of 2008-09....
...There are millions of people out there playing the markets in more or less random fashion – at any one time a few of them will get rich by being in the right place at the right time....
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