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...The share of global financial assets held by these non-bank financial institutions has risen from 25 per cent after the 2007-08 crisis to 47.2 per cent in 2022, higher than the 39.7 per cent of conventional...
...But the government’s oft-repeated position that it would only increase defence spending from 2.2 to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product when “economic conditions allow” appears to rule out that option...
...its defence budget to 2 per cent by 2027....
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...The FTSE 100 company posted a 7.2 per cent increase in sales for the year to February, to £61.5bn, as inflationary pressures “lessened substantially”, while retail adjusted operating profit — which excludes...
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...The immense destruction caused by the fighting in Gaza has driven most of the strip’s 2.3mn people out of their homes in just two months, and left residents desperately short of water, food and shelter....
...“Even so, it has been striking how often the Israeli army has reached for 2,000lb bombs.”...
...The bank forecast the territory’s economy would grow 4.2 per cent this year....
...Urban and rural regions both registered a drop in the share of people living below the international poverty line of $2.15 a day....
...The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight....
...Net income for the full year rose 12 per cent to $10.7bn, or $2.48 a share....
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...As it seeks to eradicate Hamas and its military capabilities in Gaza while minimising losses among its own soldiers, the IDF has destroyed vast swaths of the strip, which is home to 2.3mn people....
...But he warned that if the high court was split 7-2, “you go from a captured court to a full MAGA court”. Other Democrats have refused to weigh in publicly — including the White House....
...New fourth quarter data showed it fell 1.2 per cent in the eurozone but rose 2.6 per cent in the US, thanks to green fiscal stimulus, frenzied rehiring and a surge in new businesses....
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