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“I do not see any problem at all with Hungary. I only see the problem that politicians from Hungary talk too much.”
“Nationwide Building Society customers with cash card accounts will now have to take out a minimum of £100 if they use the counter service in its branches.”
“For example, Santander has a minimum withdrawal of £300 across most of its outlets, which include the Abbey.”
“Alliance and Leicester will introduce the limit at the beginning of July.”
“The change affects a third of Nationwide customers with Flex or Cashbuilder accounts.”
“Nationwide says about a third of all counter transactions are carried out by less than 8% of its customer base.”
“its director of communications, Sandra Quinn, says that 85% of people in the UK use cash machines to take out their money and Nationwide is simply reflecting that fact.”
“She said that the move was not a move against elderly customers, and only 5% of those with the simple cash card account system were over 70.”
“At HSBC, basic bank account holders cannot make cash withdrawals at the counter, but they can make other transactions.”
“Its director of communications, Sandra Quinn, says that 85% of people in the UK use cash machines to take out their money and Nationwide is simply reflecting that fact.”
“She added that people on low incomes often preferred to withdraw small amounts of cash in order to budget more easily - and said £100 was far too high, since it was more than the basic state pension.”
“In March, Prudential agreed to buy AIA for $35.5bn (£24.6bn)”
“Some shareholders are angry at the £450m spent on the aborted deal”
“including a 'break fee' of about £152m”
“Investors delivered a minor blow after 8% of shares voted failed to support the Pru's remuneration report by voting against or abstaining”
“the biggest rebellion came after 31.6% of votes were against renewing the Pru's authority to create new shares for rights issues”
“The original AIA deal had involved a UK record £14.5bn rights issue to finance the purchase by selling new stocks to existing investors”
“Shares in Prudential slipped following the AGM, closing down by 4% - the second largest faller on the FTSE 100”
“Prudential issued a trading update in which it reported sales of £1.35bn between January and May, 27% up on a year ago”
“It also announced 'record' sales in the US and an increase in Asian sales of 33% compared with a year earlier”
“last month, it asked for the price to be cut to nearer $30bn after shareholder opposition”
“paid an extra £32,000 for the 'executive' range of recycling waste bins”
“bought the 'aesthetically pleasing' range at a cost of £148 each - instead of the standard wheelie bins at £57 each”
“The report estimates it would take 5.86 years to pay back the cost of the executive bins, compared with 2.09 years for the wheelie bin option”
“The report admits the same benefits could be achieved with standard wheelie bins, at a total cost of £18,182 for 146, but recommends buying the 'executive' model, with specially moulded lids, at total cost of £51,1182, because they look be…”
“The Executive bins are specifically built for an office environment and are aesthetically pleasing, but cost £32,273 more than the slightly larger and more cumbersome adapted Wheely bin version, which offers a budget option for delivery of…”
“The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs bought the 'aesthetically pleasing' range at a cost of £148 each - instead of the standard wheelie bins at £57 each.”
“It would also save on sacks, bin liners and labour costs - with cleaners spending 13 hours less each week removing bins from under individual desks, adding up to an estimated annual saving of £4,968 across the department's six London offic…”
“The report estimates it would take 5.86 years to pay back the cost of the executive bins, compared with 2.09 years for the wheelie bin option.”
“It adds: 'The Executive bins are specifically built for an office environment and are aesthetically pleasing, but cost £32,273 more than the slightly larger and more cumbersome adapted Wheely bin version, which offers a budget option for d…”
“£20m lottery package to reduce social isolation and loneliness of elderly people in Wales is being unveiled later.”
“The Big Lottery Fund is looking for voluntary projects, which aim to run between three and five years.”
“Grants of between £200,000 and £1m will be available for projects, which either encourage befriending or social interaction, or represent the elderly and develop support services.”
“The closing date for applications is 29 October 2010.”
“He said the national debt - the largest debt of the industrialised world, at nearly twice the country's economic output - should be 'handled as the country's biggest topic'.”
“to provide a government grant of £20.000 for the expedition.”
“He also persuaded the Chancellor David Lloyd George to provide a government grant of £20.000 for the expedition.”
“FTSE 100 closed down 1.1%”
“France's Cac 40 ended 1.2% lower”
“Dax closed 0.6% down”
“some 431,000 jobs were created in May”
“analysts had expected 500,000 new jobs”
“Germany reported a 2.8% increase in industrial orders in April”
“Industrial orders had already risen 5.1% in March”
“factory orders fell 38%”
“they remain 17% below the pre-crisis peak”
“Japan's Nikkei 225 index closed down 3.8%, its biggest one-day fall in over a year”
“Nikkei had been down as much as 4% at one point and its closing level marked its biggest daily fall in 14 months”
“Hong Kong's Hang Seng index also closed more than 2% lower”
“JX Holdings was the biggest faller in Tokyo, down 8.3%”
“The price of Brent crude oil dropped 8% late on Friday and over the weekend to $70.50.”
“ending $72.24 after a strong rally towards the end of the session.”
“US light, sweet crude climbed to $71.64.”
“The euro dropped 2.8% over the weekend to $1.188, before rebounding above $1.196.”
“The single currency hit an 8-year low against the Japanese yen of just over 108 yen, before recovering to nearly 110 yen.”
“the country's currency, the forint, dropped 6% against the dollar on the news.”
“We want people to take the $6bn dollars they make in profit every quarter and we want them to hire whatever technology, whatever company it takes to clean the beaches off.”
“Manchester United's owners are £1.1bn in debt - £400m more than previously known”
“A spokesman for the American family has said it holds more than £2bn in assets.”
“Mortgage documents seen by the BBC show that the Glazers have borrowed £388m ($570m) against shopping malls and £66m ($95m) against their American National Football League team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.”
“they have got somewhere in the order of three-quarters of a billion pounds worth of debt.”
“Mr Green found mortgages - confirmed by the BBC - on 63 of 64 First Allied shopping centres, totalling £388m ($570m).”
“Banks have put 28 of the shopping centres on a watch list”
“Mr Green found that the Glazers had remortgaged 25 of their shopping centres in the six months before the takeover.”
“Premier League debts that have reached a combined total of £3.4bn”
“Mortgage documents seen by the BBC show that the Glazers have borrowed £388m ($570m) against shopping malls”
“a portion of the Glazer family's £700m Manchester United debt will soon see them charged interest at a rate of 16.25%.”
“When they bought Manchester United in 2005, the Glazer family borrowed £500m and paid the remaining £272 million in cash.”
“Four shopping centres - one each in Ohio, New Mexico, Texas and Georgia - have already gone bankrupt.”
“But with properties now worth about £380m ($550m) but mortgages valued at £395m ($570m), the shopping mall company now appears to be worth next to nothing.”
“They are payment in kind loans, or PIKs, worth £200m and the interest owing on them will soon rise to 16.25%.”
“The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is set to be insured for more than £6.2bn ($9bn), estimates Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market.”
“Stadiums and training venues for the World Cup matches are covered to the tune of £3.2bn, underwriters say.”
“But other business opportunities linked to the event account for another £3bn.”
“insurance against sports disability for a top footballer at the height of his career could go as high as £40m.”
“a world-class footballer's brand could be worth as much as £10m in its own right.”
“The Conservative-Lib dem coalition government has already outlined plans for £6.2bn cuts this financial year”
“And he said figures which the Labour government had refused to publish showed the UK would be paying £70bn in debt interest within five years”
“The only thing that has changed is we are borrowing about £11bn less than we forecast at that time”
“Greece, and the rest of the eurozone, gets a $1tn rescue package”
“BP has a third of its market value wiped out by the worst oil spill in US history”
“40% supertax on mining companies”
“Germany's economy would grow 2.1% in 2011”
“predicting 1.9% back in March”
“doubts that the UK's FTSE will rise much above 5,600 before pulling back”
“the euro hits four-year lows”
“the world's biggest stock markets lose all their gains since the beginning of the year”
“Last week, the OECD predicted that Germany's economy would grow 2.1% in 2011”
“It was predicting 1.9% back in March”
“French GDP is forecast at the same level”
“Work by Mirabaud Securities, part of the Swiss Mirabaud banking group, shows that the number of upward revisions on corporate earnings by analysts, calculated by what it calls its earnings momentum indicator, has reached the highest level …”
“Mr Urquhart Stewart believes this could start to happen as early as the second half of the year, and doubts that the UK's FTSE will rise much above 5,600 before pulling back”
“A £65,000 scheme to revamp Leicestershire's paths and bridleways has been completed.”
“Germany faces a deficit of more than 86bn euros ($103bn; £83bn) this year and has to cut 10bn a year until 2016.”
“new elected members eligible for £8,000 each”
“At a cost of almost £3m and with the new elected members eligible for £8,000 each, the pilots come at time when thousands of health workers are losing their jobs”
“The £36.9m scheme, which will include a leisure centre, swimming pool and multi-storey car park, was approved by Redcar and Cleveland Council.”
“In March, campaigners won a six-year fight to overturn council plans for a £55m development on green space in Redcar.”
“A deal collapsed on 2 June after Prudential failed to negotiate a lower price for AIA.”
“In March, Prudential had agreed to buy AIA for $35.5bn (£24.6bn)”
