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...In April, about 371,000 patients had been waiting for more than a year for treatment, according to NHS data....
...In April, the IMF said that fully accounting for unrealised HTM losses would have a “modest” impact on regulatory ratios of the median bank in Europe, Japan, and emerging markets....
...South African inflation moderated to 6.8 per cent in April, down from 7.1 per cent in March. Rolling blackouts have been forced on the economy by the broken coal plants of the Eskom power monopoly....
...Higher prices for the grain — a staple for billions of people worldwide — are likely to stoke global food inflation, analysts said....
...Her comments jolted markets, which had fully priced in a cut to the central bank’s record high benchmark interest rate of 4 per cent by April....
...Before the April 2021 sale to Reliance, another prospective buyer abandoned a bid because it was too difficult to turn the property into a private residence, according to a real estate agent with knowledge...
...Biden is due to host Kishida at the White House on April 10 when the plan is expected to be announced....
...Finland, which joined Nato in April, claims the rapid increase is “hybrid warfare”, a tactic used to stoke tensions and increase pressure on the country without resorting to open conflict....
...I live in Stoke Newington, where to be blunt the most consequential elections take place within the Labour party, so my grip on what the political parties are saying to voters in marginal seats would be...
...Paul Scott’s “sampler” collages use details of original patterns drawn from hand-engraved copper plates in the Spode Works archives in Stoke-on-Trent....
...Alongside the moral qualms, critics claim “shorting” stokes panic, crashes stock prices and punishes the public....
...Meanwhile, far-right politicians have visited the border to back Polish drivers and stoke anti-Ukraine feelings before local elections in April....
...But Stokes is enthusiastic. “I’m really excited about this compound. I love this compound,” he says....
...The pause stokes the risk of an unprecedented national default back on the table. Gains on Wall Street from earlier in the session had evaporated by late morning....
...More than 4,600 fatalities were reported in the first few months of 2020 and about 600 during Shanghai’s lockdown in April and May this year....
...In April, Australia announced its biggest strategic shift in military posture since the second world war to counter China’s military build-up....
...According to an April survey by YouGov, most Brits are not interested in the coronation. A cost of living crisis and high inflation could turn a national party into a damp squib....
...So instead, I have listened again to my RHFs for Stoke-on-Trent North, Dudley North, Witham and others, as well as the Sun Newspaper’s “Keep it Down” campaign....
...Down nearer the river, woodland plantings and walks vary the style: it sounds a great day out, at Stoke Gabriel near Totnes. The teas are home made and dogs are allowed in....
...During the long decades of deflation, there was no compelling incentive against holding cash: it would hold its value, resiliently and at low risk, as long as efforts to stoke inflation failed....
...In the latest weekly data, which runs to April 10, speculators added to their short positions, bringing the total to $10.73bn....
...David Wang, owner of a discount food store in Beijing, said that he bought 5,000 cakes in April with a shelf life of less than a week from a global fast-food chain for Rmb20 each — half the regular wholesale...
...Thus the Fed balance sheet shrunk from $8.96tn in April to $8.38tn today....
...I was appalled to read William Skidelsky’s thesis that the cause of divorce “in most cases” is that husbands are so irritating (“Divine tedium”, Life & Arts, April 23)....
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