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“£1.8bn of dividends per quarter”
“BP's shares closed up 7.2%”
“about 1.5% of their total assets, which are worth more than £800bn”
“BP shares closed at 390p”
“has almost halved since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on 20 April”
“The annual rate of consumer price inflation rose to 3.1% in May, the National Bureau of Statistics said.”
“More importantly, producer price inflation - the cost of goods at the factory gate - hit 7.1%.”
“Output from the country's millions of factories and workshops rose 16.5% in May from a year earlier, down from a growth rate of 17.8% in April.”
“Urban fixed investment - a measure of construction of houses and factories - also slowed in May, while bank lending fell 17% versus the previous month.”
“Mr Pettis estimates that low interest rates in China transfer 5%-10% of GDP from households to borrowers each year.”
“The yuan has been pegged to the US dollar since 2008.”
“US President Barack Obama, announcing $400m (£273m) worth of aid for the West Bank and Gaza, said the situation in the territory was "unsustainable".”
“after reporting a 17% rise in annual profits.”
“Adjusted pre-tax profits were £26.6m for the year to 27 March.”
“Revenues climbed 8% to £227.7m.”
“Sales of its own beer rose 2% and were 'particularly pleasing', Fuller said.”
“We have made a solid start to the new financial year with like-for-like sales in our managed pubs and hotels growing by 3.5% for the 10 weeks to 5 June 2010," chairman Michael Turner said.”
“we are providing councils with increasing levels of funding, £35bn for the period 2008-11.”
“After years of borrowing, Japan's debt is twice its gross domestic product.”
“He forecasts that the government's budget deficit will be 8% of GDP this year”
“a number that Mr Kan has promised to reduce to zero by the end of the decade.”
“Unlike Greece or Spain, Japan is a net lender to the rest of the world, to the tune of 2.5% of its GDP last year.”
“Some 95% of the government's debts are held by Japanese investors”
“and the government can currently borrow for 30 years at a mere 2% interest rate.”
“If we maintain the current level of issuance of new bonds, outstanding debt will surpass 200% of GDP in a few years.”
“Germany has announced plans to cut its budget deficit by 3% of GDP over the next four years”
“Japan's debt is twice its gross domestic product.”
“It's been 20 years since the collapse of the bubble economy in the early 1990s.”
“Yet Germany has announced plans to cut its budget deficit by 3% of GDP over the next four years”
“Hundreds of millions of pounds are being pumped into the ambitious Titanic Quarter project,”
“She has cost about £4,000 - but she is well worth it.”
“Cambridge University has raised more than £1bn in a fund-raising campaign, two years ahead of schedule.”
“On the markets BP's shares closed down 6% in London on Thursday, having earlier fallen as much as 12%.”
“For football's governing body Fifa it is already a winning situation on the sponsorship front, where revenues are estimated to be up by 80% on the 2006 tournament in Germany. That estimated $1bn (£700m) in sponsorship revenues should more …”
“Mr Currie says that, on average, each of the top partners now pays £75m to be associated with one World Cup tournament.”
“Underneath these six firms are the second tier of firms, called 'sponsors' as opposed to 'partners', paying about £20m per tournament.”
“These are not Fifa sponsorships but local partnerships with the event, with the quintet paying £100m in total to support the World Cup.”
“for the biggest major sporting event in Africa, one which dwarves the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa, there is also a tier of five national suppliers. These are not Fifa sponsorships but local partnerships with the event, with …”
“Libya cancelled oil supplies, withdrew billions of dollars from Swiss banks, refused visas to Swiss citizens and recalled some of its diplomats.”
“Arjun has won £25,000 - which will be controlled by Lord Sugar - to launch his business career.”
“Trade between Turkey and all 22 members of the Arab League has more than doubled over the past five years to just under $30bn (24.7bn euros) a year.”
“Cornwall Council is to review the services it provides after being told it must cut more than £3m from its budget this year.”
“Last month the chancellor announced that savings of £6bn needed to be made”
“and that about £1.2bn of this should come from local authorities.”
“As a result, Cornwall Council has been told to cut its budget by 0.7%, which will enable it to save about £3.8m.”
“plunge in share values on 6 May.”
“These will halt trading in some stocks for five minutes, if they fall more than 10% in five minutes.”
“The new trading breaks will apply to selected stocks from Friday.”
“The unexpected crash on 6 May drove the Dow Jones down some 700 points within minutes.”
“The £3.3m raised to keep the Staffordshire Hoard in the Midlands has now been paid to the British Museum.”
“A National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) grant of £1,285,000 was added to money raised by a campaign involving Stoke and Birmingham councils.”
“Devon's three biggest councils have been told they must each save more than £6m this year from their budgets.”
“The cuts are part of national measures involving a reduction of more than £6bn in public spending.”
“Devon County Council, Plymouth City Council and Torbay Council will all see a 0.6% cut in funding.”
“Devon County Council will have £3.9m less to spend”
“Plymouth City Council's budget will shrink by £1.8m”
“Torbay Council's budget will be cut by £1m.”
“Last month the chancellor announced that about £1.2bn of the nationwide £6bn cuts had to come from local government.”
“Walsall Council leases Bryntysilio activity centre for £500,000 a year but said it was losing money.”
“The council said it paid a £364 subsidy for every child that spends a week at the centre.”
“When a nurse earns less in a year than a banker earns in a week and it's the banker that caused the credit crunch, and the gap grows wider every year, it is unjust, it is bad for society, it is bad for our economy and we should say so.”
“The differentials of 80, 100 or more between those at the top of a company and those at the bottom are just too high and we should say it.”
“Mr Miliband also said he wanted the 50p top rate of income tax to be kept in place permanently.”
“Work on the £20m Gosport to Fareham route was halted in December after a campaigner won the right to appeal.”
“Mr Kerviel, 33, is blamed for losses of 4.9bn euros (then worth £4.3bn).”
“He has been under investigation since SocGen unveiled the losses in 2008, which it said were caused by unauthorised deals carried out by him.”
“The trial in Paris is expected to last three weeks.”
“Mr Kerviel could face five years in prison as well as a fine of 375,000 euros if convicted.”
“SocGen was fined 4m euros by the French regulator for weaknesses in its internal controls and has since spent about 130m euros on tightening its systems.”
“SocGen is also expected to submit a symbolic claim against its former employee for the recovery of the full 4.9bn euros that his trading position cost them.”
“A Sussex man claimed his firm was effectively shut down because £730,000 in VAT repayments were withheld during an investigation into "carousel" fraud.”
“Crawley-based Dave Fisher, who exports computer chips, said he had waited almost five years for HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to return his funds.”
“From our small company they've withheld around about £730,000.”
“Three men have been arrested in connection with an alleged £300,000 VAT fraud linked to the chainsaw industry.”
“Pre-tax profits for the year to March rose to £20.4m from £14.1m a year ago.”
“International sales almost doubled to £63m, while UK sales rose 20% to £160m, the company said.”
“Details of £1.1bn cuts in funding for English councils have been announced - with the communities secretary pledging to minimise the impact on services.”
“no council would see central funding drop by more than 2%”
“cut £6.2bn in expenditure this year”
“savings of its own of £780m by cutting running costs and programme budgets”
“cut by £1.166bn, comprising of £805m in revenue grant cuts and £360m in lower capital spending”
“annual £29bn general grant”
“Budgets for housing programmes - including affordable homes - are to fall by £150m”
“spending on regional development agencies by £186m”
“Birmingham (£12.6m), Liverpool (£9m), Kent (£8.7m) Essex (£7.5m) and Durham (£6.3m)”
“Currently, he said, O2 was spending around £1m a day to upgrade its network to cope with the 'exponential demand' for data on smartphones.”
“O2's cheapest tariff will cost £25 per month for two years and will allow a user to download 500MB per month. After that, it will cost £5 for every additional 500 megabytes of data consumed.”
“39% of BP's shares are held by US institutions and individuals, according to figures on the oil giant's website.”
“The value of the Chinese yuan has been pegged to the dollar since 2008”
“Some analysts argue the yuan is undervalued by as much as 40%.”
“BP shares in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since 1997 amid fears of huge US penalties.”
“Shares in the British oil giant have nearly halved over the last couple of months.”
“The NHS has been told to find up to £20bn of savings by 2014 even though the health service is due to see rises in its budget in the coming years.”
“They are highly experienced, able, well-trained and paid more than £40,000 a year.”
“Its stock market value has fallen from about £125bn to about £70bn”
“BP paid £930m in UK tax on its profits in 2009, which was well down on the £1.7bn it had paid in each of the previous three years.”
“The employees paid £490m in income tax and National Insurance on their earnings”
“while BP paid £110m in employer's National Insurance contributions.”
“If you add together the corporation tax and production tax paid by BP, together with the National Insurance and income tax paid by its employees and the VAT and fuel excise duty paid by its customers, you get £5.8bn, which is about enough …”
“He adds that those US shareholders might not be happy that every time the US president lays into BP, they find themselves a bit poorer.”
