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...“I still don’t believe it, today, that that’s what happened to us,” says Tania. “If I hear a loud boom or a balloon pop, I scream and jump....
...The first of three programmes, a mixed bill devoted to the Portuguese choreographer Tânia Carvalho, was uneven but infused with a sense of company spirit....
...Based on a compound annual growth rate of about 17 per cent in recent years, the body expects this to jump in 2020....
...“Growth in this market is not explained by GDP and never was,” says Tânia César, marketing director at Diageo, the drinksmaker. “Brazilian consumers are optimistic by nature, this is a fact....
...A jump in retail prices was also likely to raise concerns at the Bank of England. The retail price index rose to an annual 3.6 per cent in September, an eight-year high....
...The euro did manage to draw sustenance from strong data, namely a jump in the eurozone manufacturing purchasing managers’ index to a six-year high of 57.7 in June, from 57.0 in May, and a fall in unemployment...
...Tania Kotsos, senior emerging markets strategist at RBC Capital Markets, recommended her clients sell the rand, eyeing a target of R6.30 to the dollar....
...Strong retail sales data allowed the US dollar jump to a six-month high against the euro on Thursday, pushing through the key technical barrier of $1.2730 on the way....
..."ECB rate hike expectations are likely to be priced out," said Tania Kotsos, forex strategist at RBC Capital Markets....
...A desultory 0.1 per cent rise in producer prices in July was bad enough but a sharp jump in the US trade deficit was worse still....
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