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...L&G posted an operating profit of £1.7bn, broadly flat on the previous year but below analysts’ consensus estimates....
...He joins from Distributed Solar Development, where he served as chief operating officer....
...The decision to include operating expenses in the subsidy has ruffled some feathers among German economists....
...The risk was not a precipitous crash but rather a slow-burn (S&L-style) squeeze on asset returns and bank profitability. That squeeze will continue....
...In 2017, a 37m-high rocket inscribed with Chanel’s double-C logo almost did, rising up like a NASA simulator at the end of its AW17 presentation....
...David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C, said: “I don’t think we’re out of the woods in terms of the movement in fixed rates at the moment.”...
...A week later, the firm admitted that it had “become aware” that Bao was co-operating with an investigation....
...On an interest-only deal, that would fall to £917 a month, according to broker L&C Mortgages....
...For example, the company is part of the so-called Mansion House Compact which also includes L&G, Aviva and Scottish Widows....
...Drawing à l’infini presents nearly a thousand works — notebooks, drawings and engravings. The drawings illustrate Picasso’s constant process of reinvention and renewal....
...Customers buy L’Oréal products in response to the pitch “because you’re worth it”. They need to be: the SkinCeuticals Vitamin C antioxidant serum is hardly a snip at £165 for 30ml....
...However, “If people do lock in a rate, it doesn’t mean they have to take it when the time comes,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at L&C Mortgages....
...Casinos Austria, the state-backed gambling company, has held a monopoly on casino operations since 2016 and Austria’s three highest courts have since ruled that other betting companies are operating illegally...
...Central banks are obviously pretty unique institutions. On one hand they have a balance sheet and a P&L like anyone else, and right now they’re not looking great....
...Indemnity arrangements (Table 1, Part C) may reflect a desire to insulate the central bank from the financial consequences of some policy measures....
...Businesses don’t want nitwits handling their operating accounts, even when there is no risk of loss....
...After 26 years of crafting catered chalet holidays with childcare, the company knows that it’s the little things — complimentary nappies, free babysitting on the chalet chef’s weekly night off and quiet...
...The team tackled varying state laws to secure 11 operating licences in its first year....
...Its model has been widely adopted across Canada’s public sector — CPP Investments, established in 1999 to oversee and invest the assets of the Canada Pension Plan, has grown from just C$12mn to C$536bn and...
...The five-day collaboration with art-tech company Acute Art will see students immersed in the burgeoning field at locations across the capital, including the Serpentine Gallery for a talk by curator and director...
...Lebanon’s currency has been pegged to the US dollar since 1997 at a rate fixed by the central bank of L£1,507....
...He was joined by his C&C colleague George Kyle....
...The inflation problem looks less severe than in the run-up to the S&L crisis, meaning rate cuts can still intervene if and when inflation comes under control....
...There’s only so much a city by itself can do to repel tourists, but the Dutch state is now co-operating too....
...Similar facilities have been operating in the US, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. Manchester City Council is working with several partners on such a care home too....
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