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...More than 50 years ago, James and Norma McCarthy built their “beachcomber” home overlooking Macmasters Beach, 90km north of Sydney, despite friends and family warning them they were mad to invest in such...
...She goes flat on ascending phrases, sharp on descending, and shows an insecure tendency to rush a little ahead of the orchestra....
...However, he cautioned that retail investors who realise they have bought “dogs” should not necessarily rush to sell them because it is possible that the fund management group already has measures under way...
...Nor do trading volumes on the London Stock Exchange point to a rush into equities; overall volumes were down about 3 per cent in 2012....
...“In the rush to get there, companies have been taking unhedged risk, which has gone unrewarded for over a decade.”...
...Philip Rush, an economist at Nomura, said it was strange that imports rose 1.4 per cent from the previous quarter while domestic demand fell....
...Philip Rush, an economist at Nomura, said: “With the [construction data] especially prone to revisions and GDP itself tending to look nothing like the first release after a few years of revisions, the ‘news...
...By the time she was 16, the young Norma Jeane had lived in 11 foster families and an orphanage....
...“If this [a rush to take advantage of the stamp duty break] is so, this may continue to support activity and prices in the near term before cooling over the summer,” Mr Gardner said....
...Gross mortgage lending was 10 per cent higher in January than in the same month last year – a rise likely to reflect a last-minute rush to beat the expiry of a tax break for first-time buyers, according...
...concerns about the historically wide spread over the London Interbank Offered Rate that is being charged to households and businesses and has cited it as one reason why monetary authorities are unlikely to rush...
...“Because of this, borrowing has been broadly consistent with the Office for Budget Responsibility's forecast so far this fiscal year,” said Philip Rush, economist at Nomura....
...“It’s very difficult to say concretely at the moment how it does affect the Bank forecasts,” said Philip Rush at Nomura....
...Additional reporting by Norma Cohen...
...The Bank’s rate-setting body appeared to be in no rush to raise rates when minutes of its latest meeting were revealed. But there were some very upbeat messages for some parts of the economy....
...It also said last year’s rush to hire in the financial services industry appears to be slowing. Its smaller rival, Robert Walters, agreed....
...The concern for the regulator is that if it cannot take tough action in a case such as Silentnight, it may open the floodgates to a rush of similar deals that threaten to swamp its finances....
...Philip Rush, economist at Nomura, said the latest reading appeared more than a bounce back from December’s poor figures, almost halving the record total trade deficit in that month....
...Philip Rush, economist at Nomura, noted that revisions to earlier data make modest changes in headline data but not enough to prompt any significant change to GDP in the last quarter of 2010....
...in investment worrying If businesses are investing in plant, machinery and equipment, as industry surveys show, they do not appear to be doing it in Britain, say the latest economic statistics, writes Norma...
...“Sales have proved stubbornly strong despite the previous strength being exaggerated by the World Cup,” said Philip Rush, economist at Nomura....
...Meanwhile, demand for luxury products seems to be making a comeback; Burberry had to rush out a mini-collection of its “April Showers” medley of waterproof Wellies and capes in its traditional plaid because...
...But the expectation that the private sector will rush in to replace government demand may be misplaced, he says. “We really don’t see that growth coming from anywhere,” he added....
...David Dooks, statistics director at the BBA, said April is normally noted for large inflows of deposits as customers rush to set up tax-advantaged savings accounts at the start of the year....
...By Norma Cohen The Bank of England may have lowered its forecast for economic growth, but even its revised outlook is more optimistic than the predictions of many private sector economists....
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