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...China’s renminbi rose 0.8 per cent on Monday, rebounding from a 16-month low, after the central bank stepped in to support the flagging currency, setting a stronger than expected trading fix....
...In other words, well, the west has faced another threat from a sort of rising rival power. But of course the system doesn’t work and we’ve seen them off....
...Money collected this way normally bypasses tax collection accounts and is instead sent to charity funds or bank accounts directly controlled by the presidential palace, which people with insight into the...
...From South Korea to Japan and the US to China, countries are increasing exposure to Asean....
...power over decision-making in the Tory party to its approximately 172,000 members....
...I’m Andrew England, Middle East editor, standing in for Gideon Rachman....
...The approximately 2 per cent peak-to-trough fall in GDP seen back then isn’t so dissimilar from our forecasts for the 2023 downturn....
...They’ll have their bank accounts in the west frozen, and they won’t be able to travel to the west, which if you apply the sanctions to their families as well as the individuals concerned, might be quite...
...banks....
...This will impact more on regions away from the south-east....
...Brent crude, the international oil marker, was down 6.5 per cent at $64.55 a barrel on Tuesday, while West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, settled 5.7 per cent lower at $59.34 as they reversed some...
...vacancies, rising unemployment in some regions, such as the West Midlands, and a real-term decline in wages in areas like the North-East....
...It also passed on information about bank accounts held by North Korean fronts, including names and amounts, according to a person briefed on the letter....
...Consultations included meeting people without bank accounts in a homeless centre in Sheffield, heavily indebted people in east London, customers of banks that closed the last bank branch in town and bosses...
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of peers, was up 0.1 per cent at 96.206....
...Intraday Today the world’s eyes are, of course, on the US. The presidential candidates have made their final speeches, ending the most divisive electoral campaign in memory....
...Furthermore, a hard Brexit would require either a north/south or east/west hard border in Ireland, and this will be politically impossible to deliver....
...In America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (Random House), Andrew Bacevich connects the numerous American interventions in the region — from Afghanistan to Somalia and from Lebanon...
...The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria, by Janine di Giovanni, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99 / Liveright, RRP$26.95 A prize-winning journalist delivers an account of the civil war in Syria....
...(FT) A strengthened US dollar rocked US stocks overnight, taking the biggest dent out of the S&P 500 in two months. Asian markets were in turn weaker this morning....
...It is receiving the lowest price in the world for oil, which accounts for 95 per cent of government revenues....
...In the 12 months ending March 2015, Chinese citizens bought $28.6bn worth of US residential property, a jump from $7bn in 2011, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR) (see chart 7)....
...’s central bank cuts rates to 8.75% | The central bank in Turkey has cut interest rates by a more than expected 75 basis points to 8.75%, following sustained pressure from the government ** FT Opinion *...
...As in other countries where the US currency has been heavily used, a debate rages about its pros and cons....
...(Financial Times) Deutsche Bank has been criticised for regulatory reports that were “low quality, inaccurate and unreliable”, in a private letter from the New York Federal Reserve concerning the US operations...
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