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...Its new Goldman Sachs-run savings account offers a 4.15 per cent interest rate. Bank of America and Chase are still only paying a few basis points....
...While the 25 biggest banks account for over 63 per cent of the industry’s total assets, smaller banks account for 70 per cent of commercial real estate loans and 95 per cent of loans secured by farmland....
...The promissory notes are guaranteed by PDVSA Petróleo, a subsidiary that receives payments of about $30m a day from buyers of Venezuelan oil in several bank accounts situated outside Venezuela, which Mr...
...Pitchon estimates that Thai buyers account for approximately 80 per cent of high-end property sales, but international interest is rising, according to Lalita Siriboon of Knight Frank....
...Ahead of its capital markets day, it has reported a step-up in new account bookings at its credit card issuer Vanquis Bank....
...The top rate of tax would come down from 39.6 per cent as the Republican reduced the number of tax brackets from seven to three: 12 per cent, 25 per cent and 33 per cent....
...House prices have already tumbled 50 per cent from their peak and unemployment has spiralled above 25 per cent....
...Allowing for approximately 8,000 people who now trade both, the total number of active traders is estimated to have grown from 91,000 to 98,000 over the nine-month period....
...The largest of these was an M 7.8 earthquake approximately 260 km to the north of the March 11 event, in December 1994, which caused 3 fatalities and almost 700 injuries....
...Companies looking to diversify sources of funding away from bank lending, which was receding, led to one of the busiest years in the European market with $37bn (£24bn, €27bn) of issuance from 96 deals, according...
...Risk-weighted assets increased CHF 3.4 billion to CHF 260.8 billion as of the end of 1Q09, primarily due to the US dollar translation impact of approximately CHF 14 billion that more than offset the credit...
...Indian banks on Friday also began distancing themselves from the group amid concerns they might also be affected if the company was found to be bankrupt....
...From an unassailable position of strength in the Indian mobile telecommunications market, where it has a market share of over 25 per cent, Bharti is not only itself going global but also becoming the partner...
...Russo will be the person held to account if it goes wrong....
...All along the Mediterranean coast, Britons can shop for British groceries at ”Spainsbury’s”, a local supermarket, and open accounts with the same high-street banks they used back home....
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