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...UK rents rose by a record 9 per cent last month despite stagnant house prices, as higher borrowing costs squeezed both landlords and tenants....
...Wages in Japan rose 3.8 per cent last year, the largest increase in three decades....
...Russia’s revenue from fertiliser exports soared last year despite a decline in sales volumes, as crop nutrient prices rose sharply after its invasion of Ukraine....
...There is definitely a demand for convenience: even in the densely packed Japanese market, konbini revenues rose by 4 per cent last year, with a hot summer increasing drink and ice-cream sales....
...Ireland-domiciled ETFs rose above €1tn in assets under management at the end of June, making up 68 per cent of the nearly €1.5tn European market, according to Morningstar data....
...He was forced to uncap sterling in March 1988, and the pound perversely rose for a time, throwing exchange rate and monetary policy into disarray in the midst of a credit-driven domestic economic boom....
...“Sprinkle with rose-water, lemon juice, and sugar and serve iced.” I cast around for more answers....
...“We are at the bottom of the potash price cycle again,” said Chris Lawson, head of fertilisers at consultancy CRU....
...In the 1980s he was a special adviser to then chancellor of the exchequer Nigel Lawson....
...Nigella Lawson rose to brilliance as a food writer pirouetting the fine line between aspiration and effortlessness. Her TV shows were a masterclass in simultaneous evocation of parallel realities....
...Convenience store sales in Japan rose 4 per cent from 2021 to a record ¥11.2tn ($87bn) last year....
...Other readables Nigel Lawson, one of the UK’s most renowned chancellors of the exchequer, died this week. Our obit. Investors in the pound are quids in. Want to buy a dinosaur? Here’s how....
...Lawson blamed the higher price on the soaring cost of raw materials as well as packaging and transport....
...His father Norman — a brilliantly memorable presence here — designed ceramics, and rose to become managing director of Wedgwood....
...In 1988, chancellor Nigel Lawson announced couples could no longer pool tax relief on their mortgage interest, but didn’t wind up the scheme for another six months....
...ampersandgelato.com Rosanna Dodds Gelupo, London Run by the same team behind Italian restaurant Bocca di Lupo across the street, this artisan gelateria and espresso bar in Soho – deemed “divine” by Nigella Lawson...
...Prices rose to as high as $13.40 a bushel on Friday, while European milling wheat in Paris hit a record of €406 per tonne....
...Yet, while the average price paid for all residential properties in Wiltshire rose over that period by 14 per cent to £323,890, it remains below Hampshire’s £376,544, Berkshire’s £467,652 and Oxfordshire...
...The Bessemer index of cloud companies rose nearly three-fold from the start of the pandemic, before falling back nearly 20 per cent over the past month....
...From ‘Midnight Chicken (& other recipes worth living for)’, published by Bloomsbury and available now in paperback, £9.99 Rebecca Rose is editor of FT Globetrotter Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out...
...And Laurent-Perrier rosé, so we are always ready to party. The grooming staple I’m never without is my perfume, Penhaligon’s Blenheim Bouquet....
...Nigel Lawson made the City of London one of the world’s top financial centres by competitive deregulation. With our Brexit autonomy, we can do the same for our high growth sectors....
...“Our P&Ls just don’t have that much wriggle room,” Lawson said....
...“This has been a key driver of the 30 per cent increase in the price of the metal in 2021,” Nick Lawson, chief executive at brokerage Ocean Wall, said....
...Thus director Rose pays £108,817 less tax over five years than self-employed Geoff doing the same job for the same income. Stupid Geoff, you might say. No....
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