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“The upper limit on such payments remains the same at £10,000 a day.”
“about $1.2bn”
“In March, Dublin's High Court heard the company had significantly breached its solvency ratios.”
“The job cuts will be carried out over a 15-month period up until the middle of 2011.”
“A homes exhibition that has asked for up to £100,000 from Highland Council will be a 'stunning success', a councillor has said.”
“£35m arts and innovation centre”
“£15m of Welsh Assembly Government funding”
“It forecast the eurozone's economy would grow by 1.2% this year.”
“That is better than the 0.9% growth estimate the OECD made in its last economic outlook in November.”
“Globally, OECD members are expected to grow by 2.7% this year, and 2.8% in 2011.”
“The UK is forecast to grow by 1.3% this year and 2.5% next year, the OECD said”
“It said the Bank of England should raise the cost of borrowing to 3.5% by the end of 2011 from its current level of 0.5%.”
“Dow Jones index up 0.71%”
“FTSE 100 index finished up 1.97%”
“Japan the Nikkei index rose 0.7%”
“South Korea's Kospi index added 1.4%”
“Australia's main index climbed 1%”
“Oil rallied too, with a 2% gain taking the price of US crude to above $70 a barrel.”
“the euro slipped against the US dollar to $1.221 from $1.237.”
“The pound was up 0.13% at 1.178 euros.”
“Nationwide Building Society has reported a 46% drop in annual profits as it continues to feel the impact of low interest rates.”
“Underlying pre-tax profits fell to £212m for the year to 4 April from £393m a year earlier.”
“The society said it expected that the house prices would stabilise over the coming year, after rising by 9% in the past 12 months.”
“Its share of the mortgage market fell slightly to 8.7% from 9% in 2009, while mortgage lending totalled £12bn in the year to 4 April.”
“Just 0.68% of residential mortgage accounts were more than three months in arrears, up from 0.64% in 2008-09 but still less than the average of 2.22% experienced by all members of the Council of Mortgage Lenders.”
“The amount of money it had to set aside for bad debts on customers' loans rose from £394m to £549m in the past financial year.”
“Little of this reflected defaults by normal mortgage customers, with the majority - £299m - due to bad loans secured on commercial property.”
“Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, has said the Chilean earthquake earlier this year will cost it about $1.4bn (£974m) in net claims.”
“It also estimates claims of some $300m to $600m from the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.”
“It will be a very risky transition if we in any way reduced our commitment to 2% or an approximate 2% inflation target”
“He said that despite increases in inflation a few years ago and declines in inflation now, inflation expectations in the US had been 'remarkably stable'”
“He was responding to a proposal in an IMF paper that the Fed might consider raising its inflation target to 4% to make monetary policy more effective in future deflationary crises”
“The cost of paying substitute teachers has risen by 40% in the past eight years, according to the Audit Office. In 2001 it cost £38m but last year the figure was £66m, the government-spending watchdog said.”
“cheated out of £272,000”
“He said that the government had given a $168m (£117m) bailout to the ailing airline and promised $252m (£175m) more.”
“Its proposals will be presented to EU finance ministers, heads of state, and the G20 in June 2010.”
“A draft EU law would be proposed in early 2011, which would need European Parliament approval.”
“The House bill would create a $150bn fund, financed by big financial firms, which would be used to dissolve failed firms, sparing the tax payer the cost of saving failed firms.”
“This would be about 10% or so - money which was previously given to local authorities to provide services shared among local schools.”
“And that is why we will have a pupil premium - a sum of money from outside the existing schools budget - which will come on top of what we currently spend on schools, in order to help children in disadvantaged circumstances.”
“Earlier this month BT said it had returned to profit, making £1bn ($1.45bn) in the year to 31 March.”
“It had made a loss of £244m the previous year.”
“the company is also battling to reduce a giant £9bn pension deficit.”
“As well as the 'difficult' financial climate referred to in BT's e‑mail, the company is also battling to reduce a giant £9bn pension deficit.”
“The Dow Jones closed barely changed - down 0.2% at 10,043 as nerves stabilised towards the end of the session.”
“The FTSE 100 index in London closed down by 2.54% to an eight-month low of 4,940.68 points.”
“in France the Cac-40 fell 2.9%.”
“In London, the FTSE 100 has now fallen by more than 10% in little more than a month after hitting a 22-month high in April”
“German government bonds - or Bunds - are currently seen as one such place - the ten-year bund yield sank to a record low of 2.55%.”
“The euro fell by 0.8% to $1.228.”
“Against the pound the euro was trading at £0.855, making £1 worth 1.169 euros.”
“The single currency has fallen in value by almost a fifth against the dollar in the last six months.”
“The Italian government has approved austerity measures worth 24 billion euros (£20bn; $29bn) for the years 2011-2012.”
“The cuts are equal to some 1.6% of gross domestic product (GDP).”
“The government hopes to bring its deficit down to below 3% of GDP by 2012 - from 5.3% now”
“The government hopes to bring its deficit down to below 3% of GDP by 2012 - from 5.3% now - in order to help maintain the confidence of international investors and prevent the spread of a Greek-style debt crisis.”
“He said that the return of a portion of the money to his department for redevelopment of town centres would create a "win-win" situation.”
“He said that the return of a portion of the money to his department for redevelopment of town centres would create a "win-win" situation. [...] He added: "I believe I will win the argument with my executive colleagues - that this essential…”
“At current prices, a full charge for a typical electric car might cost about £2 - drawing enough power to drive about 161km (100 miles). Not bad compared to conventional fuel.”
“Proceeds generated from the events will be split between the Yorkshire Cricket Foundation and the Leeds Rugby Foundation.”
“It has also promised $500m (£346m) to study the impact of the spill and response efforts on the environment over the next 10 years.”
“Last week Germany banned naked short-selling at its 10 most important financial institutions.”
“proposals have shown. ... the draft proposal from the Finance Ministry now suggests the ban will be extended to shares and derivatives in all companies.”
“Naked short-selling of stocks and the debt of eurozone states that are listed on a domestic exchange in a regulated marketplace will be forbidden.”
“nearly a million policy holders”
“1% rise in NI contributions”
“She was jailed for 12 months last year after admitting obtaining £16,000 by fraud through tax credits between April 2003 and July 2006.”
“in this school, with about a budget of £4m”
“At the moment local authorities keep back about 10% to 15% to provide services”
“The value of those services we are currently getting is probably £20,000 to £30,000.”
“that would mean £400,000.”
“as part of wider plans to address the UK's national debt. On Tuesday, the health minister Michael McGimpsey presented his plans to the health committee at the Northern Ireland Assembly. He outlined his spending plans for the year ahead, wi…”
“Homecoming Scotland 2009 had generated £53.7m in additional tourism revenue for Scotland, exceeding the £44m target.”
“The state pension age is already scheduled to rise to 68 in stages, between 2024 and 2046.”
“The state pension age was scheduled to rise to 66 between 2024 and 2026, under plans laid down by the previous Labour administration, with two further increases at 10-year intervals to eventually take it to 68.”
“However, it has already said the first move, to 66, "will not be sooner than 2016 for men and 2020 for women".”
“Its value as a proportion of earnings has declined, from 26% to 16%, since the old link between average earnings and the state pension was cut in 1980...”
“the government has also already pledged to raise pensions in any case "by the higher of earnings, prices or 2.5%".”
“The coalition describes its new approach as giving pensioners a "triple-lock" so they will always benefit from a minimum 2.5% annual rise.”
“Also included in the Queen's Speech was a National Insurance Contributions Bill, which will raise national insurance (NI) contribution rates from April 2011.”
“The changes are set to raise an extra £9bn...”
“"Under the full changes, most people would be better off relative to the previous government's plan, and relative to no changes, all low and middle income employees would pay less tax and NI contributions overall," the government said.”
“Separately, the government will also restore a link between the basic state pension and the rise in average earnings, from 2011.”
“Its value as a proportion of earnings has declined, from 26% to 16%, since the old link between average earnings and the state pension was cut in 1980, and replaced with a link to inflation as measured by the Retail Prices Index.”
“It was the Labour government's policy in recent years to raise state pensions by at least 2.5%, even if inflation was lower, though this was a discretionary policy renewed each year.”
“"The logic used to justify a state pension age of 68 by 2046 could now justify a state pension age of 70 by then," he added.”
“The changes are set to raise an extra £9bn and will help to pay for an increase in personal tax allowances, though the exact size of the increase in the allowance will be revealed in the forthcoming Budget.”
“Their 360 Degree tour earned the band about $109m (£75.3m) in 2009, making it the most profitable tour of the year, according to Billboard magazine.”
“U2's 360 Degree tour earned the band about $109m (£75.3m) in 2009, making it the most profitable tour of the year, according to Billboard magazine.”
“It will abolish the tripartite regulation system that Labour introduced in 1997.”
“The Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government announced plans last week in its agreement document to introduce a levy on banks as well as measures to tackle 'unacceptable' bank bonuses.”
“It also said an independent commission would be established to look at breaking up banks into their retail and investment banking arms to reduce risk.”
“However, there was no further mention of either of these in the Queen's Speech, although it is likely that there will be an update on the bank levy in the Budget on 22 June.”
“"Legislation will reform the framework for financial services regulation to learn from the financial crisis,"”
“The coalition government plans to give the Treasury powers to make compensation payments to more than a million Equitable Life members.”
“Savers lost money after the pension company's near-collapse in 2000.”
“After the Equitable closed to new business in 2000, more than a million policyholders suffered large cuts to the value of either their prospective or current pensions.”
“This is welcome news for me, but more importantly, for the thousands of individuals and families who are still enduring financial hardship as a result of the regulatory failure identified in my 2008 report,”
“After the Equitable closed to new business in 2000, more than a million policyholders suffered large cuts to the value of either their prospective or current pensions as the society struggled to stay solvent.”
“The government later confirmed that the dependants of policyholders who have died will be in line for compensation.”
