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...Deforestation for palm oil plantation is a fifth of what it was at its peak — because of government action and companies’ voluntary initiatives to reduce or eliminate deforestation....
...“El Niño is still in its developing stages and typically peaks in December-January-February and therefore there is likely more extreme events and heat to come globally,” said Dr Melissa Lazenby, Senior Lecturer...
...As peak-season summer travel gets under way, some frequent flyers are lightening their carry-on-only luggage even further by embracing a wheels-free approach....
...Melissa Aldana’s cultured, light-toned tenor saxophone is steeped in the winding pathways, dynamic contrasts and harmonic thickets of contemporary narrative jazz....
...As recently as last week, they had been expecting a peak of about 5 per cent in May, with two interest rate cuts by the end of 2023....
...That was at the peak of the streaming boom, which has lost steam this year. But Papandrea is not worried about a bust. “We have been beneficiaries of this big growth in the streamers,” she says....
...Retailers are planning for “buy online, pick-up in store” — BOPIS in the industry jargon — to play an even larger role in the upcoming peak shopping season....
...Melissa Davies, chief economist at the broker Redburn, said there were two divergent forces at play....
...Melissa Davis: This is unlikely....
...Melissa Hodgman will return as acting director....
...Homes in the middle “D” council tax band currently incur an annual charge of £1,512 There were 94 sales of £1m-plus homes in the 12 months to June 2019 — below the peak of 104 in the same period in 2016,...
...In 2018, there were 163 sales of £1m-plus homes in South Kensington’s SW7 postcode, a 15.1 per cent drop on 2017 and 43.6 per cent below 2014 levels when the market was at its peak, according to Land Registry...
...Transactions have fallen since their 2014 peak and prices have gone with them....
...New-build prices have dropped by about 20 per cent since the 2014-15 market peak, says Ormonde, while second-hand sale prices have come off by 15 per cent....
...Latvian Timofej Andrijashenko was flown in from La Scala at short notice but slotted effortlessly into the Verona townscape, and was an assured and ardent partner for Melissa Hamilton’s doomy, intelligent...
...“The UK can afford to spend and invest more . . . but politicians are not taking full advantage of this fiscal space,” said Melissa Davies, chief economist at Redburn....
...As of July, prices for homes in prime central London had dropped by 3.8 per cent in a year, according to Savills, and are 18.4 per cent down from their peak in 2014....
...Large houses still achieve similar prices to what they did at the market peak in 2014, says Jack Graham-Lindsey, senior sales manager at Marsh & Parsons Camden....
...The buyer could keep them to themselves or let them out together in peak holiday season for £7,500 per week, according to the agent....
...In April, house prices across the US were nearly 13 per cent above their pre-crisis peak in 2006, according to CoreLogic. In Chicago, they were still 14 per cent below that peak....
...At its peak, in January 2017, inflation hit 18.72 per cent (in August this year it was down to 11.23 per cent). The effect on Lagos’s prime property market has been marked....
...The buy-to-let market share has dropped from 50 per cent at the market peak in 2014 to less than 20 per cent today, says Michael Keating, manager at Dexters Bloomsbury and Covent Garden....
...Today, “we are just over peak prices in 2007”, he says. Prices per sq ft are currently up 7.2 per cent on the year to March 2016, according to Hamptons International....
...Last year, values in Soho had dropped 10 per cent from their peak in 2014, says Riveros....
...Londoners have dropped off by “at least half, if not more” since the market’s peak in 2014, says Rupert Reeves, partner and head of residential sales at Carter Jonas Newbury....
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