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“Its latest report forecasts global GDP will expand by between 2.9% and 3.3% in 2010 and 2011 - then strengthen to between 3.2% and 3.5% in 2012.”
“Developing economies are forecast to grow between 5.7% and 6.2% each year from 2010 to 2012, according to the report.”
“High income nations, which saw their economies contract by 3.3% in 2009, are set to grow more slowly this year the report says, at a rate of between 2.1% and 2.3%.”
“European finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week moved closer to sealing a 750bn euro (£620bn)stabilisation package that would offer loans to struggling eurozone nations.”
“Australia was the only major developed nation to avoid entering recession.”
“It cannot be denied that the potential for further financial turmoil exists.”
“Professor Michael Gratzel of the Lausanne Federal Technology Institute received the €800,000 (£660,000) prize at a ceremony in Helsinki.”
“Two British inventors also won prizes of €150,000 (£124,000) each.”
“The Russian government is planning steep increases in alcohol taxes which would double the price of vodka over two years.”
“in the year 2012, the minimum price for a bottle of vodka would again double in price.”
“On Tuesday, public service union Unison criticised the council's spending on creating the senior posts and the recruitment campaign, which came at a time when the authority was aiming to find £15m in savings.”
“Brighton council has not revealed how much it spent on the job advert.”
“Staff at Companies House in Cardiff have been told to expect 11% cuts this financial year.”
“Companies House says the cuts are necessary as part of £836m savings.”
“Companies House forms part of the department of Business, Innovation and Skills. It has got to find savings of £836m this financial year, or 3.9% of its total budget.”
“Companies House, together with all other parts of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, is required to find 11% this year.”
“jobless rate, now 9.7%”
“the US economy will grow by 3.5% this year”
“first time this has happened since December 2007”
“budget deficit - which hit $1.4tn (£962bn) last year”
“cost taxpayers £11m in compensation.”
“Almost £23m had been spent on the project to upgrade the Royal Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital and Leicester City Hospital when the plans were dropped.”
“Triskelion consortium agreed to accept £11m from University Hospitals of Leicester and the Department of Health.”
“The Department of Health said the original claim for wasted bid costs from the consortium, which included construction giants John Laing, Laing O'Rourke and Serco, was £26m.”
“The Pathway project was shelved by the University Hospitals of Leicester Trust (UHL) when the £711m projected cost rose by £200m.”
“contract costing £90m a year”
“The court heard the local council spent £1,300 improving security at his home.”
“They will have to respond to the Budget within a fortnight and how they react might well define their campaigns.”
“The council said it gave £90,000 a year to Church Farm Museum”
“Church Farm Museum, which shows aspects of rural life, costs the council about £90,000 and gets about 15,000 visitors a year, according to official figures.”
“Earlier this year, Scotgold Resources floated on the London stock market and raised more than £700,000 towards the mine's development.”
“They say the bank was formed in 1980 with the merger of 10 smaller private banks, which then came under the control of the government.”
“which has been under sanction from the US government, external since 2005.”
“According to the annex of the UN resolution, this Malaysian-based bank has handled millions of dollars in transactions for Iranian 'nuclear, missile, and defence entities'.”
“The UN document says that the bank is wholly-owned and controlled by Bank Mellat, which has been under sanction from the US government, external since 2005.”
“Clydesdale Bank worker has admitted embezzling more than £27,000 at the firm's head office branch in Glasgow.”
“He later admitted embezzling £27,411.40 from the bank at St Vincent Place, Glasgow, between November 2007 and October 2008.”
“Ipswich Borough Council saves £2m from budget”
“Ipswich Borough Council had planned to spend £24.7 million in 2009/10”
“Income from the council-owned Regent Theatre increased by almost £150,000.”
“The new operating regime at the Corn Exchange and a management restructure in the Council's cultural services operation has saved another £158,000.”
“Torby Council and Devon County Council have spent £6m to date”
“Funding for the £130m Kingskerswell bypass cannot be guaranteed”
“Shares in BP have slumped almost 40% since the Deep Horizon oil rig exploded on 20 April, while the clean-up operation has so far cost the company $1.25bn (£862m).”
“A high cost certainly, but considering the company made a profit of $14bn last year, down from $25bn in 2008, one that BP can afford to pay.”
“The 2009 profit was generated from revenues of $239bn and, even after its recent share price slump, BP's market capitalisation stands at $107bn.”
“The company is 44%-owned in the UK, split largely between 33 institutions and seven large individual investors.”
“US investors own 39% of the company, including 25 institutional and 14 big individual investors.”
“The Welsh Assembly Government is working with local authorities to increase the number public toilets across Wales by providing funding for them to offer grants of up £500 to local businesses that are willing to open their toilets to the g…”
“Shares in BP fell a further 4.2% on Wednesday”
“The company's market value has now tumbled by almost 40% since April's oil spill.”
“Before the disaster, they were trading at 648p, but ended Wednesday's session at 391.5p.”
“The oil company has claimed that it pays £1 in every £7 of dividends that the pension funds receive from FTSE 100 companies.”
“BP shares sliding 5% on Tuesday after US President Barack Obama said he would have fired chief executive Tony Hayward over remarks he made.”
“Shares in BP fell a further 4.2% on Wednesday amid fears that it will cut its dividend to help pay for the Gulf of Mexico disaster.”
“Wednesday's losses followed BP shares sliding 5% on Tuesday after US President Barack Obama said he would have fired chief executive Tony Hayward over remarks he made.”
“Mark O'Dowd, a solicitor with international law firm, HBJ Gateley Wareing, said that in order to meet Scottish government and European Union objectives, £6.5bn would have to be spent up to 2025 to deliver a zero waste target.”
“For every tonne of waste we could make about £600 in recycled products if we could get all the system working.”
“If we burn it, we are only going to get £20 worth of electricity out of it.”
“EADS's shares were trading up more than 5% at 17.09 euros, a 52-week high.”
“The coalition government plans to cut £200m from the higher education budget as it seeks to reduce the national deficit.”
“Berlin and Paris are calling on the European Commission to speed up work on stricter financial regulation, including proposals for an EU-wide ban of naked short-selling by July.”
“Last month, Germany surprised its EU partners by imposing a unilateral ban on the risky financial bets, blaming speculators for worsening the Greek debt crisis.”
“The last-minute cancellation led to renewed speculation that the chancellor and the president do not see eye-to-eye about how to deal with the crisis, just as the euro plummeted to a four-year low.”
“BP shares fell 3.4% on Wednesday over worries that the company will have to suspend its dividend payments to pay for legal claims and cleaning up the spill.”
“BP shares fell 3.4% on Wednesday”
“Labour had under-estimated how much the extension to the pilot would cost over three years, he said, by nearly £200m.”
“Suspending this support is the same as an income-tax hike of £600 a year for a working poor family with two children.”
“The £37m five-storey building will form part of a £300m development in the Waterdale area of the town.”
“The Workhouse Festival in Llanfyllin, Powys, is facing losses of about £15,000 after a lower than expected turnout at last year's event.”
“because it was losing about £1,000 a week.”
“75% of the club's membership needed to agree with the plans.”
“75% of the town branch's 358 members that needed to approve the plans, not 75% of the club's 220 members.”
“We have over 10,000 members in Cornwall and 358 members in Redruth.”
“A new £45m terminal building has opened at Bournemouth Airport”
“in a letter to shadow education secretary Ed Balls, Mr Gove said he had decided to cut the pilot project as part of his department's £670m contribution to the government's overall £6.2bn deficit reduction.”
“Mr Gove said he was "sympathetic to the arguments for extending eligibility" of free school meals but the £85m budget for this year put aside by the last government "falls far short of the true cost of £125m".”
“Since 2006, the Financial Services for the Poor initiative has spent $500m on similar schemes.”
“The UK government has already unveiled £6bn of cuts before its emergency budget this month.”
“Those findings will inform debate and discussion as we prepare the 2011-12 budget.”
“The Hennessee Hedge index said funds were down on average 2.99% last month, the heaviest fall since October 2008.”
“Charles Gradante said the losses at hedge funds still beat other benchmarks such as the S&P 500 index, which fell 8.2%.”
“Another index tracking hedge funds' performance, from Hedge Fund Research, said average losses in May were down 2.26%, the worst fall since November 2008.”
“The Paulson Recovery Fund, which is backing the US economy to recover strongly, lost 8.67% in May.”
“the S&P 500 index, which fell 8.2%.”
“average losses in May were down 2.26%, the worst fall since November 2008.”
“Last year, there were warnings about financial strains on social work services and it is among departments helping the council make £59m in cuts.”
“Last year, there was a row about the setting up of a temporary management post costing £25,000 to help ease 'severe pressure' on a social work budget.”
“sell a stake of 14%”
“raise at least $17.6bn (£12.2bn), but could reach as high as $30bn”
“The current record amount raised in a share flotation is $21.9bn.”
“This was set in 2006 by fellow Chinese lender Industrial & Commercial Bank of China.”
“owed 300,000 yuan ($44,000: £30,000) to six other people”
“China National Radio said the couple in Wuzhou owed 300,000 yuan ($44,000: £30,000) to six other people but were refusing to pay, so the judges ordered that their house be seized.”
“The trade deficit in goods and services was £3.3bn in April, marking an increase on the previous month after March's figure was revised to £3.2bn.”
“The goods deficit also rose slightly from £7.26bn to £7.28bn, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.”
“But he added: "It is possible the deficit could get a bit worse in the near term because of doubts about the strength of recovery in the eurozone."”
“EMI is now in a particularly precarious position, with major debts and restructuring issues following a takeover by private equity firm Terra Firma in 2007.”
“Britain spends £3bn a year, about half of its overseas aid budget, through international bodies.”
“and has put £150,000 of his own money into it over the years.”
