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...Letter in response to this report:America’s foreign worker influx is two-edged sword / From Nestor Enrique Cruz, Attorney and Counsellor, Falls Church, VA, US...
...The mayor’s office said the claims were “complete nonsense, the Labour leader of Redcar and Cleveland council has made clear, with advice from officers, that no funding has been withheld”....
...How and whether Diamond’s business of regional sports networks emerges from this year remains an open question....
...The pressure is easing on regional banks in the US, but they are not out of the woods yet....
...The Korean campaign has coincided with efforts by rival regional chipmakers to increase their US lobbying presence....
...In a speech to be made in the midlands, Mr Johnson will look beyond the coronavirus crisis and map out an agenda for recovery and regional revival....
...It has also fed a wider regional backlash against the anti-corruption crusades of recent years....
...Regulators have broadly been seeking to ease burdens on banks since Mr Trump assumed office, especially for smaller lenders....
...A spokesperson for the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto US embassy in Taipei, said China’s efforts to alter the status quo were “unhelpful” and did not “contribute to regional stability”....
...spokesman said: “Our new project lead for the MDC will be a crucial link between Whitehall and our existing team in the region who are working closely with the new mayor of Tees Valley Ben Houchen and his office...
...With $139bn in assets at the end of June, Fifth Third ranked as the 15th biggest in the country, according to FDIC data, just behind Goldman’s banking arm and ahead of KeyCorp of Cleveland....
...Wednesday US economy The Federal Reserve releases its Beige Book — a report that includes anecdotal evidence on the health of the US economy from 12 regional Fed districts....
...This week, the Office for National Statistics published economic data on the six areas that show the different challenges each directly elected mayor will face....
...Among them are Cleveland’s Loretta Mester and John Williams of San Francisco, giving the committee a hawkish hue....
...Contacts in Boston and Portland note that office leasing activity is roughly flat since late summer, whereas the typical seasonal pattern involves an uptick after Labor Day....
...The Afghan army was being rebuilt at the same time as it was battling local insurgents and regional, Pakistani and international terrorists, often in 15 theatres at the same time....
...HM Revenue & Customs also announced on Thursday that, as part of a shift in focus to regional centres, it is closing three offices in Teesside, shedding more than 700 jobs there during the next five years...
...Republican Donald Trump announced his running mate, Indiana governor Mike Pence, just ahead of the GOP meeting in Cleveland....
...Transamerica, an arm of the Dutch insurer Aegon, and Paris-based Axa rank among the 10 biggest VA providers....
...Is this regional or sectoral?...
...Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser, CEBR Lack of enough new build has been a long term problem keeping house prices up in the UK but there are large regional variations....
...“Investment into new high growth sectors and economic clusters will generate new jobs that in turn will boost demand for housing and office space,” said David Dudley, the regional director....
...Tyson, Director of the SEC’s Los Angeles Regional Office. “They used coded e-mails and other covert methods of communication in a deliberate effort to hide their illegal insider trading scheme.”...
...Meanwhile, a complex overlapping web of decision-makers are in office in the regional governments (representing Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders) and in linguistic community governments (representing French-speakers...
...Mr Leterme and his ministerial team all remain in office in a caretaker capacity....
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