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...This exuberant concerto will be back in the UK when it gets a further performance at this summer’s Edinburgh Festival....
...because already valuations were more stretched”, said Gardner....
...BoE data also showed mortgage rates falling further from their peaks in the summer of 2023....
...Nationwide said on Friday that prices had been flat between November and December, leaving them almost 4.5 per cent below the peak reached in the summer of 2022....
...Prices have been under pressure for much of 2023, but rose over the summer after Saudi Arabia and Russia led Opec+ in cutting output....
...In the summer, financial markets were pricing in a peak BoE interest rate of 6 per cent....
...Vines that produce dessert grapes have the appeal of abundant foliage and a delicious late summer crop....
...Robert Gardner, Nationwide’s chief economist, said: “There have been some encouraging signs for potential buyers recently with mortgage rates continuing to trend down.”...
...Mortgage rates have declined from their peak this summer as the Bank of England signalled it had reached the end of a blistering series of interest rate increases....
...The cuts “have been simply resulting in a lower market share from Opec+”, said Edward Gardner, a commodities economist at Capital Economics....
...But Flyvbjerg and Gardner also manage to extract valuable lessons about how to plan, forecast and execute any size of project, be it a kitchen remodelling or a high-speed trainlink....
...Janine Gibson FT Weekend editor You’ve finished Succession — now you’re looking for a relevant follow-up to read this summer....
...The physical planting of these is less strenuous than digging big holes for hefty root-balls, and trying to establish potted plants during spring and summer can be a thankless task....
...Andrew Gardner, chair of Ineos Grangemouth, said that the Labour opposition’s plans to stop new exploration licences in the North Sea if it wins power could increase reliance on imports....
...Property prices fell 0.8 per cent between February and March, also a larger drop than expected, continuing the uninterrupted decline seen since last summer....
...He teaches an online programme but also increasingly educates in his own garden, hosting “Let’s Talk Plants” evenings in summer and a more advanced “Plantspersons” course held one day a month over the course...
...“Buyers just weren’t in town last summer. It has given me some anxiety, carrying two homes with two mortgages,” he says. At least for Haas, those mortgage rates are relatively low....
...Markets’ expectations of Bank of England interest rates by the summer 2023 year spiked to 6 per cent after the chancellor’s announcement on September 23, from 4.6 per cent in mid-September....
...He earns money over the summer that he contributes. He’s a pretty frugal chap.” If parents give money each term, the income will be fairly lumpy....
...In addition to the family photos, Malcolm riffs on cameo appearances: a summer crush, a character actor, her Czech language teacher....
...The UK’s largest accounting firms have been told to split into separate business units by next summer, to increase competition and minimise conflicts of interest....
...Like some other summer festivals this year, the BBC Proms have been a story of safety first....
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...It’s one of the more user-friendly trekking networks in South America, offering far less punishing altitudes than in the Andes (its highest point, the John Gardner Pass, is just 800m), staggering scenery...
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