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...“The financing gap is staggering, it’s trillions, but you don’t hear about trillions coming into the continent, it’s just trickling in,” Hassatou Diop N’Sele, vice-president of the African Development Bank...
...President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. heads to Australia for his first official visit....
...Inbound foreign investment to the Philippines dropped 6.6 per cent to $8.8bn last year, according to the country’s central bank — the second straight annual decline....
...According to the 2023 Direct to Consumer Wine Survey by the Silicon Valley Bank, the average cost of a “reserve tasting” in Napa Valley was $128....
...terms from Deutsche Bank and other lenders....
...Judge Arthur Engoron has already found that the former president and his adult sons, Donald Jr and Eric, inflated their wealth by as much as $2.2bn in order to secure loans for their family business on advantageous...
...Allianz was the underwriter of historic PPI sold to customers by mail order catalogue firm JD Williams, an N Brown subsidiary....
...US markets were closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr holiday....
...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...Hawaii: US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and Philippine counterpart Jose Faustino Jr will join bilateral military co-ordination talks in Hawaii, the first time such senior government figures have participated...
...John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said he expected growth to slow to a “modest” pace of roughly 1 per cent in 2023, while Christine Lagarde, head of the European Central Bank...
...Philippines: Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the country’s new president, delivers his first state of the nation address....
...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...In “The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders” (2014-present) — the names were the Marcoses’ aliases on their offshore bank accounts — Abad and his wife Frances Wadsworth Jones, who is a jewellery designer...
...Martin Luther King Day Banks, stock markets and Congress will be closed in the US today as the country observes a national holiday to honour civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr....
...Some abolitionist activists, among them Benjamin Brodie and William Wilberforce, then suggested that Crummell should enter the university....
...UBS veteran Mark Lewisohn is leaving the Swiss bank after 33 years, per Financial News....
...Philippines election: The country’s official campaign period of the presidential race is set to kick off amid questions over whether frontrunner Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, the son of the late dictator...
...We even met a “bank walker”, Adam, one of an endangered breed employed to patrol the banks looking for weak spots. In winter the canal is drained for maintenance....
...Texas’ 34th District holds a special election to fill the House seat vacated by Democratic Representative Filemon Vela Jr....
..., according to a court filing that seeks to compel the former president and two of his children, Donald Jr and Ivanka, to testify under oath....
...And that did win plaudits from the likes of the World Bank, who said it did a lot to prevent poverty from rising....
...JPMorgan reported the trade to US authorities after the deal was announced, as the US bank is obliged to disclose any transaction where it has evidence or is concerned about any potentially illegal activity...
...And major banks such as JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are relocating executives from Hong Kong. None of this has deterred EQT....
...Related read: China and Russia’s hypersonic weaponry threatens the US early warning system, warns William Schneider, Hudson Institute senior fellow....
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