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...Nearest five. What major economic data series did the Chinese state statistics agency discontinue earlier this year?...
...The pound fell 4.7 per cent to $1.035 against the US currency in Asian trading, the lowest since the decimalisation of the currency in 1971....
...He didn't really want to be extradited to the United States, but I think after a short period in jail in the Bahamas that idea became a little bit more appealing to him. He was flown to the US....
...So we have to have technologies that help . . . the United States is now sitting at 3.4 per cent unemployment, the lowest in 60 years....
...Trump managed to buy it for about $10mn — it had been listed at $20mn — in 1985 and turned it into a club in the mid-1990s. Nowadays it is reckoned to be worth a few hundred million dollars....
...seven years....
...We expect this recession to be the same length, five quarters, and similar in depth — a 2.5 per cent fall in GDP this time versus a 2.7 per cent fall in the 1990s....
...Iranian businessmen tell apocryphal tales of middlemen traversing the region with suitcases packed with hundreds of thousands of dollars; of developing a complex web of trading routes; and setting up offshore...
...All this is cheaper than waiting for disaster and then rebuilding: the World Bank estimates that every dollar spent on flood defences yields returns of $7 to $10....
...Regional currencies lost ground as the US dollar was firmer and oil edged lower....
...The United Nations has since confirmed that thousands of Yazidi men have been executed, and 7,000 women and girls sold into sexual slavery....
...“It is an extremely important counterterrorism platform for the United States; within striking distance of two active affiliates — AQIP [al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula] and al-Shabaab in Somalia.”...
...Her children are now five and eight, and after her experience she now believes that “flexibility is as valuable as compensation.”...
...“When Lidl comes in . . . I think that is where it gets scary for the Dollar Generals and Walmart,” he says....
...One thousand three hundred and twenty one. One thousand three hundred and twenty two. One thousand three hundred and twenty three . . ....
...(Financial Times) “Core consumer prices in Tokyo, a leading indicator of nationwide inflation, rose 2.7 percent in April from a year earlier to mark the biggest gain in more than two decades, offering the...
...Day Six/Seven Namibia Windhoek – Walvis Bay We are pulling every string to secure more high-level meetings in Angola, to little avail....
...(Financial Times) IPOs in UK head for best year since crisis reaching $7.16bn this year – more than eight times the amount raised by the same stage in 2012, according to Dealogic....
...“If you rewind five years, people from all over Nigeria drove to Kano to buy currency,” says Farouk Gumel, a partner in accountancy firm PwC who hails from the city....
...Today in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the developed world, women are better off than ever....
...Software maker Oracle Corp., for instance, disclosed more than 400 subsidiaries in its 2010 annual report. By 2012 the list had been whittled to eight—five of which were located in Ireland....
...Shares in Italy’s third-largest bank by assets, which has requested a second state bailout in four years, have fallen more than 22% in the past few days since revelations five days ago of derivatives transactions...
...Twenty-five years later, the Carlyle Group has $150bn in assets under management and is among the most successful alternative investment firms, investing in real estate and hedge funds as well as taking...
...In early May, Glencore promised hundred of millions of dollars of extra savings above previous targets....
..., while the government has spent billions of dollars on educating an elite of tens of thousands of Saudis abroad....
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