13,379 source-backed finance facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 102 of 134.
“Thirty four billion is the figure that dominates the front pages of both the Financial Times and the Guardian. For the FT, it is the amount in pounds George Osborne is expected to look for in additional cuts and tax increases in next week'…”
“Worth an estimated $53.5bn, Mr Slim - a Mexican telecom mogul - is the world's richest man, according to this year's Forbes magazine "rich list".”
“Mr Gates, founder of Microsoft, is said to be worth $53bn.”
“Bill Gates and Carlos Slim each gave about one-thousandth of their fortunes”
“Worth an estimated $53.5bn, Mr Slim - a Mexican telecom mogul - is the world's richest man, according to this year's Forbes magazine 'rich list'.”
“Research in Germany shows 80% support for lending money to the real economy, rather than speculating with it.”
“We assess the person, rather than the project, and create a credit file on them and put them into one of five different credit markets - A, B,C, Why and No”
“The most popular reason to borrow money is to buy a car, followed by home improvements and debt consolidation.”
“39% of its shares owned in the United States, against 40% in the United Kingdom.”
“G20 finance ministers had distanced themselves from bank taxes at a meeting earlier this month.”
“A number of countries have been calling for taxes on banks since governments spent billions of dollars bailing out banks across the world following the financial crisis that began in 2008.”
“German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have renewed calls for a global bank levy and a financial transaction tax. The two leaders said they would call for the measures in a joint letter to the president of the…”
“A bank tax would protect taxpayers from having to bail-out banks in the future. Proceeds from the taxes would go into a fund that could be accessed during any future financial crises.”
“The Catholic Church in Ireland has paid damages believed to be well in excess of 250,000 euros (about £207,000) to a female victim of paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth.”
“Eurozone industrial production rose by 0.8% in April”
“the euro up 2 cents against the dollar, to $1.2252”
“Against the pound, it was slightly stronger at 83.108 pence”
“leading French shares up almost 2%, German shares up more than 1% and UK shares up 0.7%”
“leading US shares also rose by 1%, before slipping after Moody's, one of the three main international credit rating agencies, downgraded Greek government debt”
“They ended the day down 20 points, or 0.2%, at 10,191”
“The company had moved from a position where it had an excess of assets over liabilities of more than 200 million euros to a position where it had 200 million euros of liabilities over assets.”
“Ipsa is offering interest-free advances of £4,000 to be repaid later in the financial year for members struggling with cash flow problems.”
“Col Thiam said the management of the funds had been "opaque". "You know, when you're managing the funds of others, you have to keep and show accounts," "In the Guinean army, we grew used to embezzlement, we have accused our elders of finan…”
“The authority hopes selling to developers will raise £30m to revamp parks and open spaces, and enable about 10,000 new homes to be built.”
“Each laptop ordered by Uruguay cost $209.”
“there is a profound opportunity for Afghanistan with its gross domestic product of $12bn”
“But if fears over instability and corruption can be averted there is a profound opportunity for Afghanistan with its gross domestic product of $12bn, says Ms Sanok.”
“It is hoped the swim will raise £15,000 for Sussex Air Ambulance, the Surtees family's nominated charity Headway and the Matthew Elvidge Trust.”
“Qatari Diar CPC consortium bought the Chelsea Barracks site for £959m”
“Infrastructure firm Network Rail says it has reduced costs by £6bn.”
“Civil engineering costs in the UK are typically up to double those in Europe, according to a study by the department and the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).”
“This is a journey on which Network Rail has already made good progress with over £6bn, or 27%, cut from the cost of running the rail network over the past five years and a further 24% targeted by 2014,”
“This is a journey on which Network Rail has already made good progress with over £6bn, or 27%, cut from the cost of running the rail network over the past five years and a further 24% targeted by 2014”
“Support for the costs of studying is also provided via loans and grants for those with household incomes up to £50,000.”
“planned £30m academy”
“In an earlier statement, put out in April, the partnership said it had got £3m from the Home Office to improve community safety and crime reduction in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook wards.”
“The report found that London and the south-east of England contributes 43% of the nation's taxes.”
“It also said London has produced more in tax than it consumed in public revenue in every year but one since 1989.”
“Greek government bonds have been downgraded four notches to 'junk' status by Moody's credit rating agency.”
“Greece is looking to slash its deficit from 14% of GDP to 3% by 2014.”
“But Moody's said that the outlook on Greece's rating is now stable, and that it would likely remain unchanged over the next 12 to 18 months.”
“In April, Standard & Poor's, one the three main international credit rating agencies alongside Moody's and Fitch, also downgraded Greek government debt to junk status.”
“The auditors will spend a week assessing progress, talking to government ministers, officials and independent experts in the country.”
“Last month, the EU, IMF and European Central Bank pledged 110bn euros ($134bn; £91bn) to help avert financial collapse in Greece.”
“According to official figures, the deficit for January to May was 8.9bn euros compared with 14.6bn euros over the same period in 2009.”
“Under the first phase of its recovery plan, Greece must get the deficit down to 8.1% by the end of this year.”
“Meanwhile, the Bank of Italy said on Monday that the country's public debt reached a record 1.8 trillion euros in April.”
“Last year, Italy's public debt - the sum of all borrowing - reached 115.8% of GDP, and is predicted to rise to 118.4% this year.”
“Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has announced an austerity package designed to bring the deficit down from the current 5.3% to 2.7% by 2012.”
“Spain, with a jobless rate approaching 20%, faces a wave of strikes.”
“Last month, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's government narrowly avoided a crisis when the legislature passed a 15bn-euro deficit reduction programme by just one vote.”
“Greek government bonds have been downgraded four notches to "junk" status by Moody's credit rating agency.”
“Last year, Italy's public debt - the sum of all borrowing - reached 115.8% of GDP, and is predicted to rise to 118.4% this year.”
“EU leaders are anxious to avoid having to rescue another member state, following the emergency bail-out for debt-laden Greece.”
“Mrs Merkel and Mr Sarkozy have jointly urged the European Commission to speed up measures to tighten financial regulation.”
“They called for an EU-wide ban on naked short-selling - a type of high-risk trading - and tight controls on credit default swaps.”
“However the Commission appears to have rejected that demand in a draft od new laws presented on Monday, Reuters reported.”
“"The euro's decline triggered by the Greek debt crisis doesn't seem to have had much impact, at least for now."”
“BP saw its shares fall by some 9% in afternoon trading in London”
“BP said the cost of cleaning up the oil spillage had risen to $1.6bn (£1bn)”
“It said it now expected adjusted pre-tax profit for the first half to be about £140m, £20m more than originally expected.”
“The £500,000 first phase of the scheme will include the installation of special burner filters to help cut mercury emissions into the atmosphere.”
“Sometimes we get 400CFA (about 70 US cents, 50 pence) a day.”
“Resolution said it would pay £2.75bn, funded by a £2bn rights issue.”
“At its request, trading in Resolution shares on the London Stock Exchange has been suspended.”
“The inquiry, led by Lord Saville, was announced in 1998 and cost about £195m.”
“The wine retailer made a pre-tax profit of £16m in the 12 months to 29 March, up from £7.4m a year earlier.”
“Like-for-like sales, which pulls out new store openings, and the purchase of Lay & Wheeler in March of last year, were up 8.4%.”
“Majestic's total sales for the year were up 16% to £233.2m.”
“The average amount spent on a bottle of still wine also increased, up to £6.56 from £6.35 in 2009.”
“Its sales of wines costing £20 or more a bottle increased by 23%, and Majestic said it would now stock more expensive wines across all of its stores over the next two years.”
“Cardiff's STC is 50% funded by the Welsh Assembly Government, which sees sustainable travel as key to achieving the ambitious target it has set itself of cutting transport carbon emissions by 3% by 2011.”
“The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicts the economy will expand 2.6% in 2011, down from the 3% to 3.5% estimate given in Labour's last Budget.”
“It predicts that the UK's public deficit will fall, down to 10.5% of GDP in the 2010-11 financial year, from the 11.1% estimated by Labour.”
“For overall net government debt - the sum of all borrowing - the OBR estimates this will decline to 62.2% of GDP in 2010-11 from the previous estimate of 63.6%.”
“the structural deficit - the part of the deficit that is not automatically reduced by economic growth - will widen from Labour's prediction of 7.3% of GDP in 2010-11 to 8%.”
“dealing with the deficit - which totalled £156bn in the last financial year - would affect 'our whole way of life'.”
“the taxpayer cost is set to rise from £4bn to £9bn”
“average increase of 20% a year in real terms”
“estimated at £155bn this year”
“The OBR is predicting that the UK's public deficit will fall to 10.5% of GDP - or £155bn - in the 2010-11 financial year, from the 11.1% estimated by Labour”
“the structural deficit ... will widen from the Labour prediction of 7.3% of GDP in 2010-11 to 8%”
“Chancellor George Osborne has identified £6.2bn of government Whitehall savings this year”
“The Strathspey Railway Company officially launched an appeal in March to raise £5m to lay the remaining track needed to link two towns in the Highlands.”
“The £2.4m scheme will enable firms across the Highlands and Islands to take on the extra staff to focus on innovative projects.”
“Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has invested £1.37m into the initiative.”
“Overall, output is gaining pace with 11 straight months of growth, according to the latest Bank of Scotland Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) report.”
“Prof MacRae said the output growth was the fastest seen in the last three months.”
“After a worrying two-month period of decline, service sector activity has returned to growth in May, reporting a promising rise in new business for the first time in three months.”
“However, the sharp rise in average input costs during May is of concern, with the pace of inflation again faster than that seen in the wider UK economy.”
“At present CGT is 18%, whereas income tax on higher earners runs at 40% and 50%.”
“Chancellor George Osborne is expected to spell out how it might be brought closer into line with income tax in the forthcoming Budget on 22 June.”
“The BCC has also urged the coalition government to impose an immediate two-year freeze on the total public sector pay bill.”
“Chancellor George Osborne has identified £6.2bn of savings and outlined cuts to quangos, spending on consultancy and big IT projects, and a civil service recruitment freeze.”
“£6.2bn”
“The MoD's annual budget is some £38 billion.”
“at least £36bn of equipment has been ordered for which the department has no budget”
“The Government Office for the South East (GOSE) has since been considering whether to allow the £25m development or to call it in for a public inquiry.”
“the French government has now promised a 150m euro rescue package to tide the industry through the next three years.”
“Frank Skinner says he is not 'extravagant' [...] Skinner said he had become a 'victim of the credit crunch' after investing in the American International Group (AIG), which nearly went bust two years ago.”
