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...Of the 35 offers this year, nine — including Albion, Octopus Aim and Apollo and British Smaller Companies — have closed before the pre-tax deadline, compared with eight out of 28 the previous year....
...Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Quizbisco (45 points) 5 (tied). BERDs of a feather (44 points) 5 (tied). CREVille (44 points) 5 (tied). Speckled Hens (44 points) 8....
...“Many live there all year round to avoid the mayhem of the main ski resort.”...
...Essentially, you know, there are 8,000 Conservative voters in my home constituency of Hackney and indeed 8,000 in my hometown Bow where I was born....
...Edouard Dujardin from Versailles says low mortgage rates this summer were the main incentive for his purchase of an eight-bedroom chalet — he has seven children to accommodate — in Les Contamines, a traditional...
...“It’s not enough for me . . . to say the war can’t last longer than eight days because I don’t have enough ammunition for longer,” says Papperger of Rheinmetall. “That’s just not on.”...
...So I will proceed with round 2 of the levelling up fund, at least matching the £1.7 billion value of Round One....
...It will entail the wholesale reconstruction of Ukraine’s private sector and reforms to an economy that, after suffering from eight years of simmering conflict, is in line for a 45 per cent crash in output...
...Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s finance minister, argued that every rupee of capital expenditure would yield 2.45 rupees in subsequent spending....
...to the tune of 8.8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), the IMF estimates that support in 2021is likely to have fallen back to 7.9 per cent and on present budgetary plans to fall further in 2022 to...
...One hive is chilled for fresh food, and both have eight-metre-high tunnels running through the middle....
...of more than $50bn (just eight years ago, SoftBank tried to buy the company for $8.5bn)....
...Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Helen Grime and Nico Muhly are in the mix, each contributing a mini-opera, adding up to about 45 minutes for the set of eight....
...Shell plans to shed up to 9,000 jobs in the latest round of large job cuts....
...In 2011, only 8 per cent of Americans believed “there are other countries that are better than the US”, according to the Pew Research Center....
...Eight new freeports in eight English regions, unlocking billions of pounds of private sector investment, generating trade and jobs up and down the country....
...Eight new Freeports in eight English regions unlocking billions of pounds of private sector investment, generating trade and jobs up and down the country....
...The arb spread for Apollo’s buyout of Tech Data had blown out to 45 per cent on March 18. Caesars Entertainment was trading 60 per cent below its implied buyout price from Eldorado Resorts....
...Within 45 minutes of the website going live, Mr Xu said, they had their first order — a delivery of Thai food for an author visiting the area....
...Central banks are not “out of ammunition.” Many investors believe the central banks are “out of ammunition” at low or zero interest rates....
...A minimum of 45 per cent of votes is required to secure an outright victory....
...We don’t know anything about the eight people tested from the 45 person trial group, including why they were at the front of the queue....
...In light of today’s PMI and other recent surveys, there is perhaps more value in waiting for more data before using up valuable and limited monetary policy ammunition....
...Round one? Possibly, though with the caveat that there’s no possibility of anything much beyond round two apart from QE....
...Paul Hollingsworth: The pandemic has reduced the Bank of England’s scope for further policy stimulus, but it is not out of ammunition yet....
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