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...It took until December for the Federal Reserve to admit that it may have finished its tightening campaign, following 11 rate rises that lifted the benchmark interest rate to a 22-year high of 5.25-5.5 per...
...A general meeting will be held in London for Hotel Chocolat shareholders to vote on the proposed acquisition of the company by Mars....
...Weihrauch sees “a lot of societal trends” pointing to further growth in services, which went from 5 per cent of Mars’s revenues to 20 per cent under Reid....
...The BMA said that following “repeated government interference with the so-called independent review body”, take-home pay for consultants in England had fallen by 35 per cent since 2008-09....
...So, for example, Poland has hosted three COPs in the last 10 years — in 2008, 2013, 2018. Qatar has hosted a COP. Egypt, although it’s not an Opec member, I think has hosted very recently a COP....
...I mean, for the numbers to work, the NHS has to raise productivity by 1.5 to 2 per cent....
...Ian Plenderleith, former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee: Worse: take-home pay may be a bit higher, but poor public services and lingering effects of the inflationary surge will...
...Between 2015 and 2020, London accounted for only 5 per cent of IPOs globally and the number of listed companies in the UK has fallen by about 40 per cent since 2008, with many succumbing to foreign takeovers...
...The agency, he said, had issued more than 5,000 subpoenas and search warrants, seized approximately 2,000 devices and examined more than 20,000 hours of video footage....
...Danny Blanchflower, professor of economics at Dartmouth College and former member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee: The UK is likely to be in a deep recession through all of 2023 and likely...
...We were having dinner with an unnamed member of the shadow cabinet when that YouGov poll came through, putting Labour 17 points ahead of the Conservatives and that is a 21-year record....
...But al-Jabri was to receive 5 per cent of the companies’ profits as compensation, according to court documents, which the plaintiffs say would be illegal under Saudi law....
...The two Republican board members suggested in affidavits filed in the case that they wanted to rescind their votes to certify Wayne County’s results. The affidavits had no legal effect....
...Pakistan’s central bank expects gross domestic product to contract by 1.5 per cent in 2020, after growing 3.3 per cent last year....
...When it stopped, capacity was only about 5,000 a day and frequently only about half of that number were carried out....
...Samuel Tombs: The unemployment rate will rise further in the first half of 2021, but the 6.5 per cent peak that we expect is well below its 8.5 per cent peak after the 2008-to-09 recession....
...Buying in much bigger size, with openness to review self-imposed constraints is a strong commitment from the ECB....
...Ian Plenderleith , former executive director, Bank of England; member of Monetary Policy Committee 1997-2002 Not perceptibly....
...His elder son, Crown Prince Naruhito, will assume the throne the following day — starting Year 1 of a new, as-yet-unnamed era....
...The range of opinions offered by commentators means that there are always some who with hindsight made “better” judgments than the members of the MPC but that does not mean that members of the committee...
...When LASPO was implemented in 2013, the government promised to review the legislation five years later....
..., a Democrat and ranking member of the US’s House Committee on Financial Services....
...All committee members subscribed to that balance sheet normalisation plan. It shows you that the committee is quite united....
...On Monday, the two fund houses announced a deal to merge their businesses and create one of the top 20 largest independent investment houses in the world with more than $320bn in assets....
...We have more retirees than we have active members. That imbalance is a big cause of our problem. Also, we got hit in 2008/2009,” he says, speaking by phone from the local government offices....
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