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“this equates to about $120m in lost productivity, the firm said.”
“152m zlotys (36m euros, £31m)”
“There are also concerns about Prudential's planned £24.6bn ($35.5bn) takeover of AIG's Asia arm, AIA.”
“Prudential wants to attract Asian investors for its £14.5bn rights issue, which will help fund the AIA deal.”
“In Hong Kong, Prudential shares were slightly down from their opening price of $59.70 Hong Kong dollars at HK$58.90.”
“In Singapore, they were also down from the opening price of 7.72 Singapore dollars at SG$7.41.”
“Asian investors have until 4 June to decide whether they want to participate in the rights issue.”
“The cut is part of Chancellor George Osborne's plans to make £6.2bn savings in order to reduce the budget deficit.”
“who get up to $115 (£80) a month, depending on their income and how many children they have.”
“the monthly assistance she receives from Bolsa Familia will now rise to $66.”
“I started with a loan of $340 and now I have $2,800.”
“You spend 0.4% of GDP, and reach 25% of the population, which are the poorest.”
“Unite says strike action so far this year has cost BA at least £63m, based on a loss of £7m a day over the nine days of industrial action.”
“The emergence of competition from European manufacturers has eased due to the current strength of the Euro against sterling.”
“Westminster Council said five signs cost more than £1,000 to correct”
“Luton Council said two errors cost £118”
“The economy grew by a revised 0.3% between January and March, up from the original estimate of 0.2%.”
“Year-on-year, output was down 0.2%, although this was also revised up from the original estimate of a 0.3% fall.”
“Industrial output was revised up to 1.2% growth in the quarter, from the previous estimate of 0.7% growth.”
“Manufacturing output was revised up to show a rise of 1.2% from a rise of 0.7%.”
“Although the quarterly figure has been revised up, it is still lower than the 0.4% growth seen in the fourth quarter of 2009.”
“However, household spending showed no growth in the quarter.”
“Almost $100bn (£69bn) has been written off, or is about to be.”
“28 African countries building up debts again and now classed by the IMF and World Bank as having a high or moderate "debt distress".”
“some $854bn (£593bn) left Africa illicitly between 1970 and 2008.”
“this rises to a staggering $1.8 trillion (£1.2 trillion), with between $37bn (£26bn) and $53bn (£37bn) lost in 2008 alone.”
“on Tuesday began selling its shares in India”
“The price band for the offering is 100 (£1.47; $2.10) to 115 rupees per IDR.”
“will issue 240 million IDRs through the offer”
“When the issue closes on Friday, the bank will list its IDRs in June on the Mumbai and the National stock exchanges.”
“FTSE 100 index in London closed down by 2.54% to an eight-month low of 4,940.68 points.”
“Germany's Dax index was 2.34% lower”
“France's Cac 40 fell 2.9%”
“Dow Jones was down by 1.55%”
“S&P 500 index was 1.51% lower”
“The FTSE 100 has now fallen by more than 10% in little more than a month after hitting a 22-month high in April”
“The FTSE 100 stands at its lowest level since 7 September 2009”
“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”
“Japanese stocks fell by 3.1%”
“shares in South Korea fell by 2.7%”
“Australian shares fell by 3%”
“Taiwanese stocks dropped 3.23%”
“the wider MSCI measure of Asia-Pacific shares outside of Japan fell by 3.6%”
“Dow Jones shedding 1.2%”
“S&P 500 dropping 1.3%”
“The Department of Health has to save £113m as part of cuts imposed by the Executive earlier this year.”
“Mr McGimpsey is planning 2% savings on staffing costs”
“New services will be phased in over a matter of time which will save the department more than £50m”
“This should be known in about two weeks' time.”
“£110m was to have been allocated to it this financial year. However, the department said as the scheme was not as far along as planned the payment was on hold.”
“He said that the return of a portion of the money to his department for redevelopment of town centres would help to relieve pressure on the executive's budget which is facing cuts of £500m.”
“HIE proposes to spend £25m on developing the site at Beechwood.”
“UK Chancellor George Osborne's plan to save £6bn in the first wave of public spending cuts”
“The Queen's Speech came after the Scottish government was told it would be expected to make savings of £332m, as part of UK Chancellor George Osborne's plan to save £6bn in the first wave of public spending cuts to reduce the UK's deficit.”
“The Scottish government was told it would be expected to make savings of £332m, as part of UK Chancellor George Osborne's plan to save £6bn in the first wave of public spending cuts to reduce the UK's deficit.”
“The Calman Commission, established with the support of Labour, Tory and Lib Dem MSPs, recommended new powers should be devolved from Westminster to Holyrood, including responsibility for raising half of Scotland's income tax.”
“According to Khosla, which last year raised $1.3bn (£900m) from private investors, Mr Blair will provide strategic advice regarding investments in environmentally friendly or helpful technologies.”
“in which the insurer will make a discount offer of 11 new shares for every two that they own at £1.04 ($2.09) each.”
“In Prudential's record-breaking offering, the firm wants to raise $21bn towards financing its $35.5bn offer for AIA”
“But the UK's largest insurer faces the risk of rejection by its shareholders on 7 June when it needs 75% of them to approve the rights issue.”
“Prudential also faced a regulatory hurdle earlier this month. It was forced to delay the offering by 12 days when the UK's Financial Services Authority raised concern that the firm would not have enough capital following the takeover.”
“Prudential's chief executive, Tidjane Thiam, has set ambitious growth targets for the proposed merged company, gunning for a pre-tax operating profit of at least £3.26bn ($4.72bn) by 2013.”
“In 2008, only 1.3% of the country's gdp was spent on insurance, compared with 15.7% in the UK.”
“Asia's economic powerhouses - China and India - have slightly higher penetration rates of 3.3% and 4.6% respectively.”
“Asia as a whole currently accounts for 21.9% of the world's insurance business.”
“But once Japan and other newly industrialised nations are excluded, its share falls to 6%.”
“The region has seen double digit growth rates in the last few years and is expected to generate up to 40% of the global growth over the next five years.”
“Broadcaster S4C is to suffer a £2m cut in its funding this year as part of the UK government's budget cuts.”
“S4C's budget is paid annually as a £100m grant through the Department for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport (DCMS).”
“DCMS confirmed the cut saying all organisations it funds would have to help meet its £88m savings target.”
“DCMS spokeswoman said its core funding was being reduced by £61m as a part of £6.2bn spending reductions to tackle the UK's deficit unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne.”
“Another £27m of cuts would come from the budget of the Olympic Delivery Authority, which the department is also responsible for.”
“DCMS's core funding was being reduced by £61m as a part of £6.2bn spending reductions to tackle the UK's deficit unveiled by Chancellor George Osborne.”
“currently equates to 11% of Spain's economic output.”
“the eurozone ceiling of 3%”
“15bn euro austerity plan, including a 5% cut to public sector salaries”
“deficit amounting to 13.6% of GDP”
“emergency package worth 750bn euros ($975bn; £650bn)”
“access to 440bn euros of loan guarantees for struggling nations, and 60bn euros of emergency European Commission funding”
“The remaining 250bn euros comes from the IMF.”
“the official jobless rate stands at 11 percent.”
“AT&T, which paid $3.9bn for Sterling in 2000, said its subsidiary was "no longer core to the company's long-term strategic objectives".”
“Savers with money in the Northern Rock will lose the 100% safety net on their funds from 1700 BST.”
“The official guarantee has been in place since the autumn of 2007, when it was introduced to put a halt on any run on the bank.”
“Now the safety net will revert to the saver's first £50,000 - as is the case with other banks not backed by the government.”
“Money currently held in the Rock's fixed-term accounts which mature in the future will still benefit from the 100% guarantee, but only if this money was invested before 24 February.”
“The announcement of the end of the guarantee was made three months ago.”
“Under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, the first £50,000 of any saver's cash is protected, per institution, if a bank or building society goes bust.”
“Northern Rock has said that some savers have accounts that hold more than £50,000, but that "customer reaction has been as expected" in terms of whether people have withdrawn funds to save elsewhere.”
“Northern Rock has said that some savers have accounts that hold more than £50,000”
“The plans have been put forward as part of a £2m rural development scheme.”
“Ms Davie continued to draw her £159,000 salary without being available for work for about a year.”
“The cross-party committee also recently raised concern that the head of government agency Transport Scotland was paid an extra £30,000 to leave his job early.”
“The block grant for this financial year for Northern Ireland is about £8bn.”
“When Northern Ireland's share is calculated it works out at £128m. That is about 1.6% of the Northern Ireland budget.”
“The cuts announced on Monday are on top of the £393m government departments in Northern Ireland have already been told they must save in this financial year.”
“No. It is very likely that there will be more cuts in the near future. The government in Westminster has said that significant reductions will be necessary over the next three years and that these cuts of £6bn are just the beginning of its…”
