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...Immigration to the UK rose, even allowing for the one-off effects of admitting large numbers of Ukrainians and Hongkongers for humanitarian reasons....
...What you eat (meat bad, grains and veg good) and how it’s raised or grown (roses in the Kenyan sun rather than in heated Dutch greenhouses) can matter more than where it’s from or how it got there....
...Charted waters Oil prices rose after the Hamas attacks on Israel, but not massively, suggesting that for the moment investors are not pricing in a major regional conflict in the Middle East....
...Global wheat prices rose by 12 per cent last week, but are still not much more than half the levels of a year ago....
...In fact, the gap remained constant until after the financial crisis, when services inflation actually fell while goods inflation rose....
...But the latest Houthi attacks show the risks of this dependence, writes Alan Beattie....
...The FT’s Alan Beattie surveys the damage....
...That might be a tricky sell to IMF creditor shareholders, Beattie writes, especially the US....
...Bonds also rose, although remaining at levels that indicated investor scepticism about returns....
...alan.beattie@ft.com...
...But whether the crisis heralds a severe blow to globalisation is doubtful, argues FT senior trade writer Alan Beattie....
...‘Global South’: Public debate would be better off without the patronising, factually inaccurate and contradictory term, argues Alan Beattie....
...I’d have to agree with my colleague Alan Beattie who writes that the term “Global South” is both limited and patronising....
...Doug Beattie, leader of the UUP, said he was disappointed with the results....
...The best hope, writes Alan Beattie, might be a lengthy litigation process between nations at the World Trade Organization....
...Spain’s economy grew by a greater than expected 0.2 per cent at the end of last year even as inflation and borrowing costs rose....
...Durable goods orders unexpectedly rose in June because of a surge in orders for defence aircraft and parts....
...But the balls Marichal threw, as the likes of Henry Aaron and Pete Rose told him, were the epitome of perfect control....
...Doug Beattie, leader of the UUP, which had been the fourth largest in the outgoing assembly, and Greens leader Clare Bailey were under pressure to retain their seats....
...“Unsustainable” is not something that seems to apply to UK house prices, which new data showed rose in June at the fastest rate in 18 years, driving the typical UK house price to a record £294,845....
...The Malaysian rubber-glove manufacturer — the world’s largest — rose to prominence on the back of a pandemic-related boost in sales....
...It is in everyone’s interest to keep exports flowing, writes Alan Beattie....
...Data released yesterday ahead of the Fed’s decision showed US producer prices rose 10 per cent in February, the fastest year-on-year rate since the data were first collected in 2010....
...Total retail sales, excluding cars, rose 30 per cent, driven by clothing and department store sales, with online receipts set to pass last year’s record $9bn....
...And despite much of the US being distracted by Thanksgiving weekend, the Vix index — a measure of expected volatility in Wall Street stocks over the next month — rose 7.6 points on Friday to 26, the biggest...
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