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...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...Let someone else take care of it. And we have evidence that this is starting to happen in the United States as well. That's right....
...Average selling prices have exceeded £273,000 per unit for the first time in the company’s history....
...Comex: -0.73% at 2.17...
...recurrent cancers have more than 17,000 trials....
...Akzo Nobel has warned of a “challenging” market environment as the Dutch paints and chemicals company said revenues were down 4 per cent to €3.43bn in the first quarter, because of “adverse currency effects...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...This is Peppa Pig’s chance to jump in puddles with ET....
...(+0.94%) at 17,829 Nasdaq up +73.40 (+1.45%) at 5,127 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +3.96 (+0.27%) at 1,488 FTSE100 up +0.71 (+0.01%) at 6,362 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,916 Dax unchanged 0.00...
...There’s plenty more in the BIS note too, of course, including the fact that while “dollar credit to non-banks outside the United States represents about 17 per cent of non-US GDP” (or $9.8tn) while “non-US...
...Intraday Chinese president Xi Jinping is set to attend a state banquet at Buckingham Palace and give an address to MPs and peers at Westminster on Tuesday, at the start of his four-day state visit....
...At the same time, August housing starts should fall to to a 1,160,000 rate from a previous 1,206,000....
...$17.25 per share in cash)....
...(Bloomberg) In the news Baltimore riots The US state of Maryland declared a state of emergency and deployed national guard troops as rioters clashed with police in the city of Baltimore....
...Friday 20:00 GMT....
...(0.00%) at 5,013 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +23.73 (+1.57%) at 1,534 FTSE100 up +87.61 (+1.34%) at 6,609 CAC 40 up +11.47 (+0.23%) at 4,895 Dax up +9.20 (+0.08%) at 11,190 Currencies €/$ 1.11 (...
...(FT) Forex woes deepen for UBS and Barclays The US Department of Justice is scrutinising currency-linked investments marketed by the two banks....
...(FT) Video of the day Martin Wolf on Grexit The Greek state is running out of cash and there may be no rescue this time. Martin Wolf talks about what happens in the case of a default....
...(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....
...be raised and where the official rate will end up in a couple of years’ time....
...A Pentagon think-tank spends roughly $300,000 a year interpreting the body language of foreign leaders while the US has spent $900m since 2007 trying to read the body language of passengers in airports....
...300: -2.25% at 1,332 | FTSE 100: -2.00% at 6,417 Currencies €/$ 1.1947 | $/¥ 119.2300 | £/$ 1.5258 | €/£ 0.7829 Commodities ($) Brent Crude ICE +0.28% at 53.26 100 oz Gold Comex +0.34% at 1,208 Copper...
...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...The prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (Isis), which operates in Iraq and neighbouring...
...(0.7928) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.01 at 106.01 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.17 at 98.00 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +2.20 at 1,284 Copper (Comex) up +0.05% at 3.22 10-year government bond yields...
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