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...The new partygoers were “95 per cent men, young . . . with a kind of nerdy style,” he said. “You couldn’t tell they had a lot of money if they were just walking around.”...
...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....
...Read more The coronavirus risks the return of currency wars: but US monetary easing should be done with Japan and the eurozone and not to them, argues Robin Harding in the FT....
...John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum by Alison Morris (£49.95, Phaidon)The latest in this Phaidon series explores the creative principles of the architectural designer John Pawson....
...“Very unfair to the United States!” he tweeted after the ECB signalled plans for a fresh round of stimulus....
...We should also note this guy, who’s doing his thing: A reminder that Donald Trump, who despite everything remains The Actual President of the United States, tweeted on April 2 that a deal to end the oil...
...in a bid to fracture the rightwing vote — giving him power over the fate of Israel’s prime minister since 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu, who also faces a united Arab opposition....
...European stocks also fell, and the FTSE was down 1 per cent in advance of a parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plan....
...Forex and fixed income China’s currency enjoyed its best week against the dollar in more than a decade....
...The DXY dollar index, which measures the greenback against other currencies, dropped 0.4 per cent to 95.757. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was down 1.6 basis points at 2.6428 per cent....
...Canada has agreed to join a US deal with Mexico to revamp the pact, ending months of uncertainty over trade in North America that had been hanging over the economies of all three countries...
...Here's the problem as they see it (emphasis ours):If even a small group of unpaid creditors were to find an effective legal strategy in the United States that resulted in seizures of Venezuelan oil or the...
...The dollar index, measuring the greenback against a basket of peers, was 0.15 per cent stronger at 95.280....
...The dollar meanwhile was trading down around 0.4 per cent against a basket of its peers at 95.913....
...The new trilateral pact is to be called the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, they said....
...It suffers the highest annual inflation rate ever recorded in Latin America. To try to reverse this state of affairs, President Nicolás Maduro announced an economic package over the weekend....
...Yet Illinois has, for now, a top state income tax rate of 4.95 per cent....
...There's evidence of the Alphaville team in several places today -- not just here on the blog, but also in the Palace of Westminster where Izabella Kaminska will give evidence on digital currencies to the...
...In 1914 there were just over 50 internationally recognised states, mostly in Europe and the Americas....
...cuts in the United States, which was partially offset by growth in macaroni cheese....
...In the same period, the price per square foot has risen from $560 to $705, an all-time high....
...The price of hot rolled coil steel index futures dipped 6.8 per cent to $590 per contract this year with a drop of 7 per cent since the start of September putting pressure on steel companies in the near...
...That’s a 5 per cent increase from the prior year period and ahead of the $95.5m, or 76 cents a share, analysts were expecting....
...The economic calendar for Friday has a bit of holiday spirit about it (all times London): 7.00: Turkey consumer price index9.30: UK Markit-CIPS construction purchasing managers’ index10.00: eurozone producer...
...If information is indeed the new currency of the networked age then it too requires a “sovereign guarantee”. “Somebody knowing my blood type isn’t a big deal,” Ilves tells the author....
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