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...“All of those things are still very conducive to locating our regional headquarters here.” Citi said it had added more than 1,000 jobs in London since Brexit, taking the total to 9,000....
...Given the regional distribution of income, this will also act as a regional-specific shock that will increase the pressure to act on “levelling up”....
...The “Oxford-Cambridge Arc”, a regional project designed to connect the UK’s two leading universities and the manufacturing and logistics centre of Milton Keynes by building east-west transport links, was...
...They threaten to be a complicating factor as Biden seeks to depart from Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran, reduce regional tensions and rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran....
...It also identified its Argentina unit and plant-based protein shake Vega brand as candidates to be sold....
...Regional bias towards London and the South East needs addressing in all areas of policy from infrastructure to sport, the arts and banking....
...and Munira Mirza, head of the Number 10 Policy Unit....
...The company is a major buyer in the crude oil market, where prices have collapsed in 2020....
...Many of the Iraqi militias that joined a paramilitary force, known as the Popular Mobilisation Units, had been armed and trained by Iran....
...What’s left of Kier will focus on regional building, infrastructure, utilities and highways....
...At the same time, a major new customer emerged: China....
...Additional reporting by Andrew England Appetite for assets PIF’s dealmaking timeline Jun 2015 Agrees to buy a 38 per cent stake in the engineering unit of Posco, the South Korean steelmaker Jun 2016...
...Here’s a story that relieves a major disappointment from DD’s childhood....
...Wage growth is showing more signs of life recently, and with weak productivity growth, this is pushing unit labour costs higher....
...Dawn Holland, chief of global economic monitoring unit, United Nations Feel about the same as 12 months ago....
...Steve Hughes, Head of Economic and Social Policy, Policy Exchange The regional imbalance, with London and the South East still being the engine room of the UK economy....
...Crest Nicholson also has a very large land bank of more than 33,000 units, with a gross development value in excess of £10bn....
...So in London and the South East prices will continue to rise....
...Aengus Collins, Country Forecast Director, The Economist Intelligence Unit I expect the UK to record another year of growth above 2%, which in a regional context can easily be categorised as "decent"....
...In January, the group opened a new regional office in Dubai, its fifth global “business unit”, to serve the region....
...“It’s extremely significant and it could be a harbinger of things to come, not just in the Kurdish region but elsewhere,” said Andrew Tabler, a Syria expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...
...“I could stack shelves in Tesco for that.” ——————————————- Andrew Hill is an FT associate editor and management editor. Gill Plimmer is an FT correspondent....
...But Michael Jones, leader of Cheshire East council, said things could have been worse....
...As David Willetts, the science minister, said on Monday of AstraZeneca’s decision to invest in Cambridge: “They chose to make this major investment in the UK after considering options around the world....
...But she has found working in the various units and department at RBS akin to working in smaller companies, where close teamwork is essential....
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