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“There will be less money to spend on social goods”
“we can anticipate significant funding reductions”
“The new EU initiatives include a 125m-euro (£107m; $154m) Latin American Investment Facility”
“could leverage investments well in excess of 3bn euros”
“the 1% that the International Monetary Fund forecasts for the 27-nation EU”
“EU farmers' income is now "below pre-2000 levels" in many areas, the statement said”
“the 1% that the International Monetary Fund forecasts for the 27-nation EU.”
“The new EU initiatives include a 125m-euro (£107m; $154m) Latin American Investment Facility, which EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said "could leverage investments well in excess of 3bn euros".”
“Economic growth in Latin America this year is expected to reach 4% - far above the 1% that the International Monetary Fund forecasts for the 27-nation EU.”
“Economic growth in Latin America this year is expected to reach 4%”
“The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but media reports indicate the price tag for Associated Content was around $100m (£70m).”
“The CBI estimates that selected public sector pay and recruitment freezes could save £18bn over the next two years.”
“The Conservative-Liberal Democrat government plans to reduce public spending by £6bn in the current financial year, and Chancellor George Osborne is due to present an emergency Budget on 22 June.”
“Chancellor George Osborne is due to present an emergency Budget on 22 June.”
“Confidence fell 7% in May - its biggest monthly drop since autumn 2008 - according to study by Westpac bank and the Melbourne Institute.”
“However, confidence levels are still nearly 22% higher than a year ago”
“Australia's central bank raised its main interest rate to 4.5% earlier this month.”
“In October, rates were 3%.”
“The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was unanimous in its decision to keep interest rates on hold at 0.5% in May, minutes have shown.”
“The MPC's nine members all voted to keep interest rates on hold at 0.5%, where they have been since March 2009.”
“The MPC made its latest rates decision on 10 May.”
“The most recent official figures - released on 18 May - showed that UK inflation hit a 17-month high in April. On the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure, inflation hit 3.7% - well above the target of 2% and the highest rate since November…”
“The most recent official figures - released on 18 May - showed that UK inflation hit a 17-month high in April.”
“"There are lots of different issues, but the most important is inflation and spare capacity," said analyst George Buckley of Deutsche Bank.”
“Some members of the MPC are concerned that spare capacity is not going to be as big a drag on inflation as they thought.”
“pre-tax profits for the six months to 10 April were £73m, up from £47m a year earlier”
“total like-for-like sales up 1.8%”
“food sales 4.3% higher”
“drinks, which only rose 0.3%”
“target savings of £25m this year”
“earmarked £25m towards its expansion plans”
“Key share indexes in London, Paris, Frankfurt lost close to 3%.”
“On Wall Street the Dow Jones fell by 0.63%.”
“Earlier, the euro hit another a four-year low against the dollar. It fell to $1.214 before recovering to $1.239.”
“In London the FTSE was down by 2.8% at 5158.08 points”
“At the close in Paris the Cac 40 was 2.9% lower at 3,511.67”
“in Germany the Dax closed behind by 2.7%, at 5,988.67”
“The German ban will run from 19 May to 31 March 2011.”
“The German financial regulator has banned traders in the country from "naked" short-selling of euro-denominated government bonds and of shares in the country's 10 most important financial institutions.”
“These would halt trading in a stock for five minutes if it fell more than 10% in five minutes. The new rules would apply to all stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index.”
“On 6 May, the market fall quickly spread out of control”
“She said Europe needed a "stability culture" to ensure the survival of the Euro. Currency expert Jeremy Stretch of Rabobank said that while Mrs Merkel needed to portray a bleak picture of the state European economy to MPs in Germany, the n…”
“Some 30% of new cases during 2009-10 were about PPI, the service's annual report shows.”
“In total, the ombudsman resolved 46% more finance cases than a year before.”
“It handled 925,095 enquiries from consumers in the last financial year.”
“It resolved 166,321 disputes - a record number.”
“In half of these cases, consumers were given compensation.”
“Some 49,196 new complaints were about PPI”
“Another 15.5% of new cases were about current accounts, 11% were about credit cards, 4.5% were about mortgages, and 4% were about unsecured loans.”
“There was a 27% drop in disputes involving pensions, while motor insurance complaints were down 13%.”
“Some 49,196 new complaints were about PPI, which consumer groups have complained about as often being mis-sold.”
“Mr Gill told the BBC he had lost £40,000 which he thought was going into genuine shares.”
“"The first transaction was for only £5,000, a dry run, then the big one was for £35,000."”
“The first transaction was for only £5,000, a dry run, then the big one was for £35,000.”
“The FSA believes UK investors lose hundreds of millions of pounds a year to boiler rooms, with the average loss per investor being put at £20,000.”
“more than 38,000 people”
“lost £40,000”
“first transaction was for only £5,000, a dry run, then the big one was for £35,000.”
“average loss per investor being put at £20,000.”
“Operation Domingo”
“These would halt trading in a stock for five minutes, if it fell more than 10% in five minutes.”
“The new rules apply to all stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index.”
“It comes after the unexpected crash on 6 May that drove the Dow Jones down some 700 points within minutes.”
“The circuit breakers "would also increase market transparency, bolster investor protection and bring uniformity to decisions regarding trading halts in individual securities".”
“David Cumming, head of UK equities at Standard Life Investments, which owns about 7% of BA's shares, told the BBC's Today programme on Monday that the union was "clearly a malevolent force".”
“David Cumming, head of UK equities at Standard Life Investments, which owns about 7% of BA's shares, told the BBC's Today programme on Monday that the union was 'clearly a malevolent force'.”
“Germany is to ban so-called "naked short-selling" at its 10 most important financial institutions.”
“The German ban will run from 19 May to 31 March 2011, also applying to naked credit default swaps.”
“After the German announcement the euro extended losses against the dollar to hit a fresh four-year low below $1.22.”
“"It tends to suggest desperation on the part of the German officials who want to discourage what they consider speculative attacks on euro zone financial markets."”
“The euro has plummeted against the US dollar, falling below $1.22 for the first time since April 2006.”
“The eurozone's single currency fell more than 1.7% in afternoon trading in New York, to $1.216, before rallying.”
“The single currency dropped by more than 2% against the yen.”
“The German government's ban will apply to the country's 10 most important financial institutions, and aims to stop the short-selling of euro government bonds.”
“The decline came after Germany announced plans to ban naked short-selling of shares from midnight local time (2200 GMT).”
“The student essentially stole $45,000 from Harvard, prosecutors said.”
“The new Conservative-Lib Dem coalition has announced that it will be looking to cut £6bn from the public deficit in its first year in office.”
“More details of where the axe will fall will be announced in an 'emergency budget' on 23 June and in a Comprehensive Spending Review in the autumn.”
“Only health and international aid will be ring-fenced.”
“We cannot sustain for very long the position where for every four pounds the British government spends, one pound is borrowed.”
“Asda posted its first sales fall in four years”
“In the three months to 31 March sales, excluding fuel and VAT, were down 0.3%.”
“17-month high in April”
“50p a month”
“To stop it going bust, RBS had to be nationalised in two stages, with the taxpayer taking stakes in the bank first in October 2008 and then in January 2009 at a cost of £46bn.”
“The former deputy chief executive David Baker was fined £504,000 for misreporting mortgage arrears data.”
“The former credit director Richard Barclay was fined £140,000 for also failing to ensure the accuracy of the bank's financial information.”
“The amount of money paid into personal and stakeholder pension plans fell by £1.1bn, or 5%, during the recession, according to figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).”
“Employees, employers and the self-employed paid in £19.7bn between them in 2008-09, down from £20.8bn the year before.”
“This was the first drop since the mid-1990s and was mainly due to lower employee contributions.”
“The amount of money paid in by the self-employed also fell, by £200m to £3.7bn.”
“while employer contributions rose, from £7.4bn to £7.7bn.”
“UK inflation accelerated again in April to hit its highest rate in 17 months, official figures show. On the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure, inflation hit 3.7% - well above the target of 2% and the highest rate since November 2008. On …”
“The cost of food rose by 2.6%, the ONS said, thanks largely to rising transport costs over the last 12 months. Fuel costs have increased by more than 25% in that time, the ONS said.”
“the official CPI measure remains more than one percentage point above the 2% target.”
“he expected inflation to be higher in the coming months than previously forecast, but insisted that it would slow to below the 2% target before the end of the year.”
“a small number of savings accounts offering interest rates of up to 5% were still available.”
“inflation hit 3.7% - well above the target of 2% and the highest rate since November 2008.”
“inflation was up to 5.3% - its highest rate in 19 years.”
“The cost of food rose by 2.6%, the ONS said, thanks largely to rising transport costs over the last 12 months.”
