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“The Commerce Department said total retail sales rose by 0.4% following an upwardly revised 2.1% rise in March.”
“Compared to April 2009, sales were 8.8% higher, and have now increased for seventh straight months.”
“Motor vehicle and parts purchases unexpectedly rose 0.5%, following a 6.7% increase in March.”
“Excluding this category, sales rose 0.4% in April after rising 1.2% in March.”
“Meanwhile, another report on Friday - from the Federal Reserve - showed industrial production rose 0.8% in April, better than economists' prediction of 0.6%.”
“Last week, manufacturers added 44,000 jobs in April, the most since 1998.”
“consumer spending, which accounts for two thirds of the US economy”
“Unite members rejected a fresh deal for cabin crew earlier this month.”
“The Unite union said there was a turnout of 71% of the cabin crew it represents, and 81% voted against BA's offer last week, which sought to resolve the dispute over pay and working conditions.”
“All flights from Gatwick and London City airports are expected to operate as normal, BA said, while a 'substantial' number of long-haul flights from Heathrow will run as planned. There will be daily flights from Heathrow to all short-haul …”
“As with the strikes in March, the airline is also planning to lease extra aircraft from other carriers and re-book passengers on cancelled flights onto other airlines.”
“Balpa said it had written to the transport secretary and Business Secretary Vince Cable, warning that a wave of strikes from next week would risk jobs.”
“Nigeria's state-run oil firm NNPC and China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) have signed a $23bn (£16bn; 18bn euros) deal.”
“The project would add 750,000 barrels per day of extra refining capacity.”
“But the country imports roughly 85% of its fuel needs because of the disrepair and mismanagement of its four state-owned refineries.”
“Worldwide sales across the Land Rover marque - which includes the Range Rover models - totalled 14,350 in April, 89% higher than the same month last year.”
“Sales at Jaguar, the other part of the Jaguar Land Rover business, were flat, said Indian parent firm Tata Motors.”
“Global sales of Tata brand passenger vehicles hit 25,353, a rise of 71%.”
“Tata's group-wide total sales in April - which include its range of commercial vehicles - totalled 77,732 last month, 53% higher than a year before.”
“In March, Land Rover saw its largest UK sales in the brand's 62-year history, boosted by heavy snow across Britain during the winter.”
“Rusal plans to continue its sustainable development by introducing new, efficient aluminium and energy production capacities, reducing operating costs, diminishing our debt and further expanding our presence in Asia, the most promising mar…”
“It plans to turn a small public park into a park for futsal, a variant of football, and build rock-climbing facilities and skateboard ramps. Homeless people have been moved from the park, but dozens of activists have since moved in to oppo…”
“Construction work was originally scheduled to have started last September, but was delayed to April and has since been blocked by protesters.”
“The Japanese firm has had to recall more than 8.5 million vehicles around the world because of three main problems - sticking accelerator pedals, accelerator pedals getting stuck in floor mats and braking problems.”
“operating profit more than doubled in the three months to the end of April, largely thanks to cost-cutting - including axing more than 14,000 jobs worldwide”
“profits of £374m in the year to 31 July”
“raised £1bn”
“including axing more than 14,000 jobs worldwide”
“largely thanks to cost-cutting - including axing more than 14,000 jobs worldwide”
“cancelled a merger that would have created the country's sixth-largest bank”
“since they announced merger plans in July 2009”
“It is one-third owned by US buyout firm JC Flowers and 24% owned by the government”
“Japan's Shinsei Bank and Aozora Bank have cancelled a merger that would have created the country's sixth-largest bank.”
“The firms said they were calling off the deal after considering changes in the business environment since they announced merger plans in July 2009.”
“Iberia is in the process of merging with British Airways (BA), has reduced its quarterly losses by 44% after a rise in its passenger revenues.”
“its net loss for the January to March period was 52m euros ($65m; £45m).”
“Iberia's revenues per passenger rose by 3.7% from a year earlier”
“it trimmed its workforce by 5.2%.”
“BA and Iberia signed a deal to merge last month, expecting it to be completed by the end of this year.”
“They hope that the merger will save the two airlines a combined 400m euros a year.”
“BA shareholders will own 55% of the business”
“The world's airlines lost a collective $9.4bn (£6.5bn) last year, as customers reduced air travel during the recession, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).”
“IATA expects this loss to narrow to $2.8bn this year, as the sector slowly recovers.”
“UK betting firm Ladbrokes has seen revenue fall by 6% in the first four months of 2010.”
“And it said that amounts staked by customers across its UK stores had dropped by 10%.”
“Profits from gaming machines were also lower after VAT reverted to 17.5% in January.”
“Mr Wallace added he expected more than £500m to be wagered on next month's World Cup.”
“European aerospace group EADS, the parent company of Airbus, has seen a 39% fall in quarterly profits.”
“The figures included a profit of 7m euros for the Airbus commercial planemaking unit, from 89m a year earlier.”
“Earlier this week, Airbus doubled its target for 2010 sales of its A380 superjumbo to more than 20, pointing to a rebound in passenger traffic.”
“Jana Kossiabati is editor of the blog Hijab Style, which gets as many as 2,300 visits a day from across the world, including Africa, Middle East and the United States.”
“"I started two-and-a-half years ago," says Jana, who is British of Lebanese origin.”
“the underground system aims to catch up with the city's development scale by 2020.”
“According to Mr Gayev, the Moscow Metro made an operating profit of "a bit more than 1bn roubles" ($33.4m, £22.6m) in 2009.”
“London Underground, the operator of the London Tube system and part of the state‑run Transport for London (TfL) corporation, generated revenue from fares of £1.6bn in the 2008/09 financial year, while total revenue reached £1.8bn.”
“At the same time, operating expenses amounted to £2.2bn, while capital works undertaken on the London Underground stood at £1.6bn.”
“Mr Gayev says the Moscow Metro needs to build 50-70bn roubles' worth of new stations and tracks annually to be able to catch up with the Russian capital's development scale by 2020.”
“In 2008, the Moscow local government paid 41.6bn roubles to finance the Metro expansion, while the Russian Finance Ministry provided 3.2bn roubles.”
“Mr Gayev stresses that the London Underground is 1.6 times larger than the Moscow one.”
“It went into administration in January 2009 after being badly hit by the economic slowdown.”
“open 9am-5pm Mon-Fri and 10am-5pm Sat & Sun”
“The adverts have been bought in the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle as well as the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal. Online, they appear on Wired, Techcrunch and Engadget.”
“The annual rate of house price increases reached its highest level since November 2007, the government's own data shows.”
“Property prices rose by 9.7% year-on-year in March - the 12th consecutive month of annual price rises, the Department for Communities said.”
“The average value of a UK home rose by 0.7% compared with February.”
“The cost of the average home reached £205,598 in March, although the typical sale price for those getting on to the property ladder was lower.”
“The average house price paid by first time buyers was £151,749, 12.6% higher than a year ago, and the average price paid by former owner occupiers was £238,794, some 8.6% up on 12 months earlier.”
“Annual house price growth was 10.1% in England, 7.2% in Scotland and 8.1% in Wales. In Northern Ireland, prices fell by 6.9% on average in the year to March.”
“This put the cost of the typical home at £212,266 in England, £165,106 in Scotland, £150,648 in Wales and £174,172 in Northern Ireland.”
“In the regions of England, annual house price inflation rose in every area. The largest was in London (15.6%) and the smallest in the North West (5.1%).”
“Annual price growth was 11.3% in the South East of England, 9.7% in the South West, 9% in the West Midlands, 8.4% in the East, 8.3% in Yorkshire and the Humber, 5.7% in the North East and 5.2% in the East Midlands.”
“mark 50 years of Coronation Street”
“25 years of EastEnders”
“annual three-day festival in August”
“six teams from channels and independent producers will perform”
“The festival will take place from 27-29 August”
“British Airways plans to run at least half its flights from Heathrow Airport during next week's cabin crew strike.”
“The airline said it intends to operate at least 60% of long-haul services and 50% of short-haul flights.”
“If the planned industrial action goes ahead, it will disrupt BA's services from Heathrow for at least 20 days.”
“In total, it hopes to fly more than 70% of passengers during the strikes.”
“BA said that while most of its revised short-haul flights from Heathrow next week will be operated by its own aircraft and crews, it was leasing up to eight aircraft and pilots and cabin crew from five different airlines from the UK and ma…”
“It has further made arrangements with more than 50 other carriers so that it can re-book customers onto their flights if need be.”
“The previous strikes in March grounded hundreds of BA fights and cost the company an estimated £45m.”
“BT has announced that it will expand its roll‑out of next‑generation broadband to bring super‑fast services to two‑thirds of the UK.”
“Originally its fibre services, offering speeds of up to 40 megabits per second (Mbps), were due to reach around 40% of the population by 2012.”
“After successfully 'unbundling' the Lyddington telephone cabinet, locally‑based Rutland Telecom has had enquiries from 200 other villages keen to do the same thing.”
“Over the past two years, BT has cut cost, including the lay-off of about 35,000 staff - a fifth of its workforce.”
“Some 20,000 of the jobs cut came during the past year.”
“BT operates in 170 countries”
“Over the past two years, BT has cut cost, including the lay-off of about 35,000 staff - a fifth of its workforce.”
“UK telecoms company BT said it made a profit of just over £1bn ($1.49bn) in the year to 31 March, compared with a loss of £244m during the previous year.”
“Consumer product sales fell by 20%.”
“Underlying pre-tax profit from core operations rose 17.5% to £671m ($1bn).”
“Same-store sales, which strip out the effect of new store openings, rose by 4.3%.”
“The UK's third-biggest supermarket chain opened 51 new convenience stores over the year.”
“Some 127,000 of Sainsbury's staff will share a record bonus pot of £80m.”
“the chain added 38 new supermarkets and has almost 900 outlets across the country.”
“sales here were up by 20%.”
“Sainsbury has said both sales and profits rose over the year to 31 March.”
“Same-store sales, which strip out the effect of new store openings, rose by 4.3%. The figure also excludes fuel sales.”
