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“Growth for the last three months of 2009 was also revised up to 1.1%”
“giving Australia a growth figure of 2.7% for the year to the end of March.”
“Growth in GDP was driven by an 11.6% increase in public investment, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said.”
“On Tuesday, Australia's reserve bank opted to keep rates on hold at 4.5%”
“last week asked for the price to be cut to nearer $30bn after shareholder opposition”
“The Prudential said it faced £450m ($653m) in costs related to the deal, including a break fee of about £152m”
“The company's shares were 3.3% lower in early morning London trading and later closed 2.5% down at 561 pence”
“Prudential had sought to fund the takeover by raising £14.5bn from shareholders through a rights issue, the biggest in the UK's history”
“due to be held on 7 June”
“In March, Prudential agreed to buy AIA for $35.5bn (£24.6bn), but last week asked for the price to be cut to nearer $30bn after shareholder opposition.”
“The Prudential said it faced £450m ($653m) in costs related to the deal, including a break fee of about £152m.”
“The company's shares were 3.3% lower in early morning London trading and later closed 2.5% down at 561 pence.”
“Prudential had sought to fund the takeover by raising £14.5bn from shareholders through a rights issue, the biggest in the UK's history.”
“BP's shares fell sharply on Tuesday following the failure of its previous efforts to "top kill" the leak by pumping mud into the well. At one stage the share price hit its lowest level for 15 months...”
“is owed almost £2m”
“This included the costs of taxis between Manchester and the Chester hotel where they stayed. There was also £388 spent on drinks and food.”
“Mr Wylie repaid 'an amount' of expenses.”
“The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission has already held four hearings”
“the fifth of its hearings”
“with a 13% stake in Moody's according to the latest reports”
“worst recession in 75 years”
“This year, the organisation is expected to spend more than 3.5bn euros on European space activity.”
“Germany this year will fund almost 17% of Esa's budget; France will account for 18%.”
“The other leading nations financially are Italy (9.9%), the UK (6.8%), Spain (5.2%) and Belgium (4.3%).”
“but now Europe is demanding £60m back for payments made in error to farmers in Northern Ireland.”
“In total Europe provides 300m euros to farmers here annually while the individual subsidy claims are administered locally by the Department of Agriculture.”
“At that point the European inspectors had seen enough and imposed heavy fines amounting to £60m on the Department for three years starting in 2005.”
“While the Department of Finance is providing £4.8m to help the Department of Agriculture improve its processes.”
“They say they have evidence he made bank withdrawals amounting to £1.3m ($2m), far more than his declared income.”
“"Having seen around $7bn of taxpayers' money invested in military hardware and anti-drug operations in Colombia since 1999..."”
“"In 1998, we had expected to start with a lot of money and see it gradually reduce over time; and that has happened."”
“Having seen around $7bn of taxpayers' money invested in military hardware and anti-drug operations in Colombia since 1999,”
“The tax free savings plans are to be wound down by the beginning of next year, after a five year lifespan.”
“Any existing Child Trust Funds will continue, but newborn children will cease to qualify from January.”
“In the event, Labour provided a £250 initial payment to each child when the funds were launched in 2005, paid from general taxation.”
“Another £250 followed at the age of seven, while lower income families received more.”
“The government announced last week that it would save £520m a year by scrapping the funds.”
“He stated that 30% of poorer families were topping up their children's funds with extra savings.”
“One London mother, Siobhan Randles, plans to save £10 or £20 a month for her two-year old daughter, Marley.”
“Five million children have already qualified for the plans, so they will remain a significant feature of the investment world.”
“Stakeholders have outperformed cash savings plans in three out of the past five years, and they put on an impressive 40% in 2009-10.”
“including an offer of a $500m (£344m) loan from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China for the construction of the controversial Gibe Three hydroelectric dam.”
“Ethiopia receives aid worth around $2bn a year, mostly from the US and the UK.”
“The government has contributed £20,000 towards the project.”
“£5.1m renovation plans for the Forest Recreation Ground in Nottingham.”
“£2m is coming from the city council”
“£3.1m has been awarded by the Lottery.”
“The Bank of Canada has increased its key lending rate by one quarter of a percentage point to 0.5%.”
“Official figures showed that its economy grew at an annual rate of 6.1% in the first three months of the year.”
“This followed an annual growth rate of 5% during the last quarter of 2009.”
“Harbour commissioners in Newlyn have three months to raise £2.3m to ensure a new fish market can be built.”
“The European Fisheries Fund has agreed a £2.3m grant for Newlyn Fish Market together with a £970,000 grant from the European Regional Development Fund.”
“Newlyn will only receive the grants if the rest of the money for the £5m venture can be found by Newlyn Harbour Commissioners.”
“The commissioners must have proof that the money can be raised by 20 August.”
“A study into plans for a stadium in Cornwall is costing £78,000, Cornwall Council has confirmed.”
“The budget where this [study] is from is specifically designed to enable leverage from other funding sources to enable things to happen.”
“One of the funding opportunities that we're looking at with the stadium is with the European Convergence Programme, as well as private sector investment.”
“The work is part of an £8m water improvement project in the city, which has under way since 2007.”
“The firm said it would record a $1bn financial cost charge in the course of its 2013 financial year.”
“It said the shake-up would make it annual gross savings of about $1bn and net savings "after reinvestment in a range between $500m and $700m".”
“agreed to repay £40,000.”
“Oil services firms led the falls, with Anadarko Petroleum ending down almost 20%”
“Halliburton losing almost 15%.”
“The main Dow Jones index lost 1.1%”
“the Standard & Poor's 500 gave up 1.7%”
“the Nasdaq fell 1.5%.”
“BP shares had earlier finished trading in London down 13%”
“The UK's FTSE 100 was down 2.1% at one point”
“France's Cac was 2.1% lower”
“Germany's Dax down 2%.”
“the FTSE recovered to finish down just 0.5%”
“the Cac closed 0.1% lower”
“the Dax finished up 0.3%.”
“The euro fell to a four-year low against the dollar at one point, hitting $1.2111, before recovering back up to $1.2266.”
“We do not need to make any acquisitions and do not need to, or plan to, issue equity to help meet these dividend targets.”
“£200,000 payment to charities which help consumers”
“£100,000 to the Money Advice Trust”
“£100,000 to the Energy Best Deal campaign”
“Police strength statistics, 31 March 2010 ... Last month, Mr MacAskill was forced to address the issue of police funding at parliament, ... The justice secretary said specific funding was being provided to increase police numbers and, had …”
“It estimates that the Republic, where GDP has declined by 10% since 2008, faces a further 1% fall this year, before returning to 2.8% growth next year.”
“It estimates that the Northern Ireland economy will expand by 0.8% this year, and by 2.2% in 2011.”
“He said that he was predicting cuts in Northern Ireland's public sector of between £750m and £1bn.”
“It says that in the Republic, between the start of 2008 and the end of 2009, there was an increase of nearly 160,000 in the number out of work.”
“Of those, 56% are in the 'prime working age' category of 25-44.”
“For Northern Ireland, the increase in the numbers out of work was 28,000”
“of whom 48% were between the ages 25-44.”
“We believe that between now and 2020,”
“In Northern Ireland we believe that over the next 10 years, they will account for more than 60% of all net new jobs.”
“the number of mortgage deals on offer has risen again to more than 2,000”
“The financial information service Moneyfacts said there were 2,191 deals available at the start of June”
“requiring down payments of between 0% and 40% of the value of the home being purchased.”
“That was a 14% increase in the number of mortgages in past month”
“the proportion of them requiring at least a 25% deposit was steady at 56%.”
“The Land Registry said the cost of the average home in England and Wales now stood at £165,596.”
“France announced the creation of the African Agriculture Fund, an investors' fund, for food distribution and other projects, to initially raise $120 million (£82m) and potentially reach $300 million, according to a final statement.”
“a 28% fall in pre-tax profits to £34m ($49m) for the past year.”
“profit was broadly flat at £54.6m.”
“a 28% fall in pre-tax profits to £34m ($49m) for the past year”
“profit was broadly flat at £54.6m”
“Office of Fair Trading chief executive John Fingleton, whose annual package is up to £279,999, is the top earner”
