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...This would be well below the 1.3 per cent jump a year earlier, bringing the annual rate of increase down to 3.0 per cent from 3.8 per cent in October....
...borrowers owe remarkably little of their dollar debt to banks or investors that reside in the United States.”...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Naming and shaming in Japan: David notes another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...in a restive district in the state of Uttar Pradesh where at least 26 people, including a television camera man and a police photographer, were killed in a weekend of deadly communal riots between Hindus...
...(97.33) £/$ 1.59 (1.60) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.03 at 109.09 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.15 at 101.76 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -3.50 at 1,303 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 3.22 10-year...
...(0.00%) at 3,669 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +3.31 (+0.27%) at 1,240 FTSE100 down -24.51 (-0.37%) at 6,587 CAC 40 up +21.70 (+0.53%) at 4,114 Dax up +22.36 (+0.27%) at 8,438 Currencies €/$ 1.33...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...Although contrast GMO et al: That’s rather more convoluted. In fact, it’s a recipe for a sovereign bankruptcy regime in US courts....
...Asian stocks were little changed as investors were cautious ahead of the ECB’s meeting later in the day....
...“[B]y being a passive investor in the $1.5bn equity investment in Cheniere led by Blackstone, alongside Government of Singapore Investment Corp, and the state of Louisiana, CIC hopes to avoid the sort of...
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...An attempt to put together a consortium to make a €7bn bid for a stake in uranium processor Urenco has been launched by a former director of the state-controlled company (Financial Times)....
..., with a total investment amount of 20 billion yuan ($3.14 billion), the companies said on Tuesday. http://reut.rs/OK6SwO UAE unveils tighter rules for funds The United Arab Emirates has introduced new...
...of national unity and scorned Gulf nations for walking out of a peace mission in protest at the behaviour of president Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the FT reports. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/20250018-4683...
...) at 11,478 Nasdaq up +15.51 (+0.60%) at 2,620 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -10.65 (-1.09%) at 966.37 FTSE100 down -38.42 (-0.71%) at 5,403 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 3,187 Dax unchanged 0.00...
...India revises up trade gap estimate as exports struggle Indian imports continued to outpace exports in February as demand remained weak in major exports markets like the United States and Europe, nudging...
...The holdings, the world’s biggest, fell to $3.18 trillion at the end of December from $3.2 trillion at the end of September, People’s Bank of China data released in Beijing showed today....
...Comex) up +36.00 at 1,656...
...currency market to hold down the value of the renminbi, the FT reports....
...defence Brazil has intervened to defend its plunging currency, the real, against a resurgent dollar for the first time in two years, in a sudden reversal of policy for Latin America`s largest economy, the...
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