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...Farhad Diba Marbella, Spain Letter in response to this letter: Contemplating the history of the ‘Christian’ garden / From David A McM Wilson, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK...
...Farhad Diba (Letters, FT Weekend, July 3) writes that “there are no ‘Islamic’ gardens, just as there are no Christian, Jewish or atheist gardens”....
...Focusing on housing, an area where the city can point to a clear history of racial discrimination, will make the programme more likely to survive the inevitable constitutional challenges, says Alvin Tillery...
...debt to Persia / From Farhad Diba, Marbella, Spain...
...Hat-tip to ING-DiBa’s Carsten Brzeski for spotting this, and for this interpretation: The suspension of the obligation to file for bankruptcy has meant that banks and business partners of companies in difficulty...
...And ING-DiBa: Today’s PMI numbers provide further evidence of what initially looks like a textbook V-shaped recovery....
...Some diba are driven less by nationalism than by the thrill of flooding social media accounts with comments, according to Ocean Huang, who became a diba in his first year of university in 2013....
...“Most of these defendants have seen the writing on the wall, and a large number have settled,” said John Libra, a lawyer at the law firm Korein Tillery with experience in RMBS litigation....
...Mr Beevers alleged that after he informed Mr Harvey that Deutsche stood accused by Axiom’s lawyers, Korein Tillery, of attempting to manipulate a standards body, Mr Harvey said he “ought to resign from his...
...“Macron’s concessions and the Italian fiscal fiasco show that the fundamental controversy in the eurozone on the right policy mix is far from being solved,” said Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa....
...Carsten Brzeski, chief economist at ING-DiBa, said it is a credible claim that these are just temporary, supply-side problems rather the harbinger of something to come....
...Mr Brzeski at ING-DiBa says that if oil prices stay at current levels, it could increase 2019 inflation to 1.8 per cent compared with the ECB’s estimates of 1.4 per cent for next year....
...“Today’s decision is a truly Solomonic compromise between the hawks and the doves,” said Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DIBA....
...“I can see the ECB carrying on buying bonds in the first quarter of 2019,” said Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa, a bank....
...Inga Fechner, economist at ING-DiBa, says there is little question that the Germans can build great EVs — they just choose not to, citing high battery costs and poor infrastructure....
...“There are still two weeks to go before Riga, but naming an end date for QE right now would be like the ECB shooting itself in the Italian boot,” said Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa....
...Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DIBA, said: “The key thing to watch [is] whether Draghi confirms the October statement that there will be no sudden end to QE.”...
...Carsten Brzeski, chief economist for Germany at ING Diba, described the agreement as “pretty timid” — a catalogue of “cautious steps forward, rather than any visionary experiments”....
...“After years of stagnation, 2017 has become a year that you would never want to see end,” said Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa....
...Profits at subsidiary DKB, Germany’s second-biggest online bank after ING’s DiBa, fell to €116m from €241m last year....
...Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBA, said the “very gentle” exit plan “illustrates that the ECB wants to start the exit as cautiously as possible, ideally without seeing the euro appreciate or bond yields...
...That’s what is on the council’s mind the most,” said Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa, a bank....
...Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa, said the ECB could reduce its monthly purchases “by more than markets currently expect” to about €20bn or €25bn each month, while extending QE until the end of 2018...
...Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-DiBa, a bank, said the minutes presented a picture of “an ECB which wants to steer . . . towards tapering extremely cautiously”....
...“The fear is spreading that a stronger euro could harm the German economy,” said Carsten Brzeski, economist at ING-Diba, a bank. “In our view, this fear is exaggerated....
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