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...The appeal of Michael Oakley’s production is the casting of real-life mother and daughter Caroline and Rose Quentin in the roles....
...Bilal Gilani, executive director of pollster Gallup Pakistan, said the army may tacitly encourage rivals like these in order to weaken the PTI’s support....
...“In some senses, it was an absolute game changer,” says Bilal Gilani, executive director of Gallup Pakistan, a consultancy....
...“Our industry should take these findings very seriously,” said Oliver Bilal, head of Emea distribution at Invesco....
...The number of terrorist attacks rose 42 per cent in 2021, according to the Pak Institute for Peace Studies think-tank, the first increase since 2013....
...“The inflation problem is still not addressed, it has to do with how supply chains have been disrupted but also governance issues,” said Bilal Gilani, executive director of Gallup International’s Pakistani...
...Bilal Hafeez at Nomura says: Bond yields are marching higher not just in the US, but also in Germany and Japan....
...European stocks rose with the benchmark Stoxx 600 closing 1 per cent higher....
...French banks rose nearly 10 per cent, helping the benchmark CAC 40 share index in Paris climb 4 per cent....
...Still, the European version of political risk is complex, says Bilal Hafeez, FX strategist at Nomura....
...Foreign holdings of Treasury bills rose to $1.2bn in January, according to data from the central bank, as investors were tempted by yields of 19 per cent....
...Bilal Hafeez, Nomura’s G10 FX strategist, points out the Trump-Reagan parallels are not entirely clean....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, gained 0.8 per cent to $46.27 a barrel and West Texas Intermediate rose 0.7 per cent to $44.81....
...Bilal Hafeez, analyst at Nomura, points out that at the end of last week, pretty much every market on the planet was tracking sterling....
...He gave his speech flanked by his son Bilal, one of the targets of the corruption investigation, who denies any wrongdoing. The government also says many of the leaked tapes have been doctored....
...A new breed of “Anatolian tiger” entrepreneurs rose up against the incumbent handful of business conglomerates....
...Dutch-owned ABN Amro, which has been on the island since the early 1970s, is increasing revenues and remains solidly profitable, says Bilal Majid, its chief executive in Jersey....
...Brent rose to within a whisker of $120 a barrel in early trade on Thursday and West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, pushed through $100....
...Performance rose steadily from 1999 to mid-2007, with a brief dip in May 2004 and a sharper, but short-lived reversal in May 2006....
...Bilal Hafeez, global head of FX strategy at Deutsche Bank, says the spike in FX trading volume that occurred at the end of the fourth quarter of 2008 was partly caused by a rush of hedge funds unwinding...
...Bilal Hafeez, of Deutsche Bank, said that, for many, the outlook for the dollar was now very confusing....
...“Despite seismic shifts occurring in financial markets, the dollar’s performance has been somewhat muted,” said Bilal Hafeez of Deutsche Bank....
...The competing muezzins’ calls to prayer sound as if they were still the voice of Bilal, picked by the Prophet Muhammad for his mellifluous voice....
...The dollar rose 0.8 per cent to $2.0020 against the pound, climbed 2 per cent to $0.9185 against the Australian dollar and rose 1.5 per cent to $0.8012 against the New Zealand dollar....
...Bilal Hafeez, global head of FX strategy at Deutsche Bank, predicted rates of $1.43 and Y93 by December 2005 and $1.50 and Y87 by December 2006....
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