Brexit Bulletin: The Tricky Part

Paul Oakden makes being Ukip party chairman sound like a barrel of laughs in his resignation email to members pic.twitter.com/Peb4AzFJ3S. — John Stevens (@johnestevens) February 12, 2018. For more on Brexit follow Bloomberg on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Before it's here, it's on the
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You probably remember Peter Rabbit as the lovable, impish star of wholesome childhood stories, but is he now a bully? That's what some parents are arguing after seeing the new Peter Rabbit film starring James Corden and directed by Will Gluck. The film, released on Friday in the U.S., grossed an
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Julian Evans-Pritchard, an economist at Capital Economics, said China logs record lending at the start of almost every year. The more important story is that broader credit growth has fallen to a new multi-year low. Policymakers have argued that the economy should hold up well this year despite slower
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has deviated from the normal central banking practice, having opted for “inflation anchoring” instead of “inflation targeting” to keep inflation low and stable. Inflation targeting was considered the international best practice in monetary policy framework for years before the
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The optimism expressed by commercial real estate executives in the last three months of last year has continued into 2018. The Real Estate Roundtable's Q1 2018 Economic Sentiment Index reveals that leaders are confident in the economy and current real estate markets but are more concerned about
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This video is an awesome segment from last year's Success Summit where I got super deep with an attendee who had the guts to stand up in front 6,000 Summit attendees and admit publicly, “I'm exhausted!” “I'm in my third year in the business, and I'm exhausted!” she said. Side note: this is very
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“It is the newest multi-tenant Class A office building in the area, and the fact that PGIM invested in a mortgage loan on this asset is a testament to its strength.” 833 East Michigan boasts vast windows with waterfront views, marble-finished lobbies, a state-of-the-art fitness center and conference center.
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New Delhi: Inflation is peaking off and the Reserve Bank of India is expected to cut rates by 25 bps in August if monsoon is normal, says a report. According to global financial services major Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML), inflation risks are overdone. January inflation stood at 5.1 percent,
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Ctrip.Com International logo Traders bought shares of Ctrip.Com International Ltd (NASDAQ:CTRP) on weakness during trading hours on Monday. $56.01 million flowed into the stock on the tick-up and $34.85 million flowed out of the stock on the tick-down, for a money net flow of $21.16 million into the
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Hong Kong was named the least affordable housing market for the eighth year in a study by Demographia, an urban planning policy consultancy. Home prices are more than double their 1997 levels, when the city's housing bubble burst. Secondary residential prices have climbed 14.5 percent in the
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The Bay Area's median home prices shot up 12 percent in January from the prior year amid a worsening housing shortage. Single-family home inventory hit a three-year low, pushing the Bay Area's median price for single-family homes and condos to $880,000, compared to around $774,000 in January
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Known as the “CCAR czar,” Saltzman came over to Deutsche Bank (DB +3%) in 2015 to oversee the lender's efforts at getting through the Fed's stress tests. He then moved on to his current role with Deutsche. Globally, transaction banking generated $4.8B for the bank last year, down 11% from 2016.
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Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's president, looks on during a panel session on day two of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg. Robert Mugabe's fall as Zimbabwe president is setting the scene for the return of a London mining listing for
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HSBC Holdings Plc and BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Ltd. are offering fixed rates of 1.68 percent for the first year of a new mortgage, lower than the 2.15 percent rate that currently prevails in the industry, according to data from Centaline Mortgage Broker Ltd. Fixed-rate loans have surged as a share of
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Small businesses tend to feel the pain of rising borrowing costs more than medium and large businesses due to their general constraints on capital. Last week the Fed released their report on Commercial and Industrial (C&I) loans which fell on a weekly basis to $2.122 trillion. However, the overall trend
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In his keynote presentation, the author said the peculiarities and emerging trends in the thriving real estate sector in Nigeria motivated the necessity to put together resource materials on varying subject matters in the real estate practice in Nigeria, with focus on addressing industrial challenges. The book
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Botswana's central bank left its benchmark lending rate unchanged at 5 percent on Tuesday, saying the outlook for price st…
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In October 2008, almost a decade ago, the British banking system stood on the brink of collapse. Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group were rescued by a government bailout, while a third bank – Barclays – avoided the need to take taxpayers' money through its own fundraising efforts in the
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For Morgan Olsen it circles back to the well-worn adage of 'teach a man to fish.' But the problem for Olsen — CFO at Arizona State University — is that some fiscal conservatives at the Arizona Legislature don't want the school to fish for real estate deals and its own revenue streams even after the same
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I got a mortgage from EBS. When filling out my application, I was told by the loan officer that I would not qualify for a tracker as this option was not available to me due to it being an affordable housing scheme. As a result, I had to select the variable interest option and subsequently signed the mortgage
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