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...Diageo and United Utilities have both released trading updates. The drinks group warns that currencies will reduce operating profits in the current financial year by £150m....
...If you live in China, or Russia, or Venezuela and you need to get your currency out of there . . . buying real estate in New York has proven [in] every cycle as the safest investment.”...
...) at 5,137 Dax down -87.66 (-0.72%) at 12,036 Currencies €/$ 1.08 (1.08) $/¥ 120.18 (120.12) £/$ 1.49 (1.49) €/£ 0.7242 (0.7249) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.54 at 56.09 Light Crude (Nymex)...
...“With currency moves uncertain, we’re not in a position to celebrate record profits,” says one Toyota worker. His boss echoes the caution: “There is still much left to be done,” says Mr Toyoda....
...Mr Grambling added that a likely re-acceleration in same-store sales would not be enough to offset inflation and the impact from competitors....
...On average companies that listed in Hong Kong this year rose 28 percent by the end of their first day of trading.”...
...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 and...
...of the most shameful episodes of the British empire. http://on.ft.com/Y5d2vv Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.66% at 1,071 Americas DJIA up +0.39% at 14,036 S&P 500 up +0.73% at 1,531...
...China offered on Tuesday to talk with the United States about cyber security amid an escalating war of words between the two sides on computer hacking, but suspicion is as deep in Beijing as it is in Washington...
...Originally published in 2006 in two separate volumes, they are here united in one book. Collect it while you can....
...Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index down -0.61% at 995.73 Americas DJIA down -0.75% at 13,458 S&P 500 down -1.05% at 1,442 Bovespa down -2.28% at 60,501 Asia Nikkei 225 down -1.71% at 8,936 Topix...
...HSBC buys Lloyds assets in UAE HSBC has bought Lloyds Banking Group’s onshore business in the United Arab Emirates as it seeks to expand in its most profitable Middle Eastern market, the FT reports....
...The volumes being extracted by miners in South Africa, Australia, China and the western United States are falling....
...I propose to increase the plan allocation for school education from Rs.26,800 crore in 2009-10 to Rs.31,036 crore in 2010-11....
...By midday in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.8 per cent to 12,195.48....
...In currencies, the yen hit a new record low of Y165.87 against the euro in late afternoon London trade. Sterling also rose to a fresh 15-year high against the Japanese currency of Y245.23....
...The biggest risk to the global economy at the moment is arguably the twin deficits in the United States, which could still see the economy suffer a hard landing and result in a sharp fall in the US dollar...
...December Nymex WTI dropped climbed 73 cents to $46.84 a barrel in New York, following a 76 cent slide in the previous session....
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