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“There were 16.7 million private addresses 50 years ago, compared with 26.6 million last year.”
“Of these, 22.1 million - 83% - are in the private sector with 68% owner-occupied.”
“Fifty years ago, 72% of households were in the private sector, but only 43% were privately owned.”
“At its peak in 1981, the social sector - for example, council housing - accounted for 33% of homes.”
“Average earnings grew by 2% annually, with house price inflation at 2.7% on average.”
“As a result, housing wealth accounts for more than a third of assets, compared with just over a fifth in 1959.”
“The 1980s saw the most notable change in values, when people's collective assets more than doubled.”
“Collective wealth fell by 15% between 2007 and 2008 because of falls in the housing and share markets and despite some recovery over last year, it is still 8% below the peak reached in 2007.”
“average debt ratios of 110% of gross domestic product (gdp) by 2015.”
“potential growth in advanced economies could decline by over half a per cent annually”
“by doing this, the UK could raise revenue worth 3.3% of gdp without having to raise the actual rate of VAT.”
“5% pay cut for public sector workers from June”
“Greece's deficit for this year is estimated by the IMF at 8.1% of gdp.”
“Ireland's is estimated at 12.2%, the UK's at 11.4% and the US's at 11.0% of gdp.”
“the sum, thought to be more than £100m ($145m)”
“The giant bank holds £3.2bn ($4.7bn) of EMI's debt.”
“Terra Firma's Maltby Investments bought EMI, whose acts include Gorillaz, Coldplay, Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, at the peak of the last boom in 2007, paying £4bn ($5.9bn).”
“Guy Hands had been hoping to raise £360m ($532m), which would have seen EMI financially stable through to 2015.”
“Amid fears the crisis may hit the European-wide economy, the UK's main FTSE 100 index ended down 3.1%.”
“Spain was worse hit - its shares lost 6.6%.”
“France's Cac fell 4.6% and Germany's Dax 3.1%.”
“US share markets fared less badly, with the Dow Jones ending a choppy session down a relatively modest 1.5% at 10,620.2 points.”
“Gold hit new record highs near $1,250 dollars an ounce and the dollar rose against the euro.”
“Oil hit a three and a half month low, with US light crude touching $71.61 dollars a barrel, a fall of 4% on the day and 18% since early May.”
“Across Europe banks were among the biggest fallers, with shares in Spanish lenders Banco Santander and BBVA losing 10.3% and 8.2% respectively.”
“In France, Societe General lost 9%, BNP Paribas 7.2%, and Credit Agricole 7%.”
“Among UK banks, Barclays was the biggest faller, losing 6.1%, followed by Lloyds Banking Group, which lost 4.7%.”
“Meanwhile, on Monday emergency measures worth 750bn euros were agreed to try to prevent the Greek public debt crisis from affecting other eurozone countries.”
“The 16 countries that share the European single currency will have access to 440bn euros of loan guarantees and 60bn euros of emergency European Commission funding.”
“The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will also contribute up to 250bn euros.”
“The euro hit an 18-month low against the dollar, as doubts grew that a joint rescue plan by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund would be able to contain the crisis.”
“In late Friday trading, the euro was trading at $1.24.4.”
“the UK's main FTSE 100 index ended down 3.1%.”
“France's Cac fell 4.6%.”
“Germany's Dax 3.1%.”
“with the Dow Jones ending a choppy session down a relatively modest 1.5% at 10,620.2 points.”
“Gold hit new record highs near $1,250 dollars an ounce”
“The euro hit an 18-month low against the dollar”
“shares in Spanish lenders Banco Santander and BBVA losing 10.3% and 8.2% respectively.”
“Only half of employees in the UK are now in pension schemes run by their employers”
“Between 1997 and 2009 the proportion in company schemes fell from 55% to 50%”
“The proportion of full-time self-employed men paying into personal pensions also fell, from 64% to 45%”
“Within that, the proportion of employees in salary-related pension schemes fell from 46% to 33%”
“and those in defined contribution schemes dropped too, from 9% to 6%”
“However, this was partly offset by a rise in the proportion paying into group personal pension plans (up from 1% to 6%)”
“and those in stakeholders' schemes, who amounted to 4% of all employees”
“Overall, the ONS says, in 2008 there were nine million people paying into company schemes, down from the peak of 12.2 million in 1967”
“Only 3.6 million private sector employees were in them in 2008, down from 6.5 million in 1991 and the peak of 8.1 million in 1967”
“Meanwhile, active membership of company schemes in the public sector has strengthened, up from 4.2 million in 1991 to 5.4 million in 2008”
“By 2008, the proportion who had stopped paying into such a scheme had risen to 25%, and the proportion who had never paid into one rose to 32%”
“In 2009, 75% of male and 82% of female full-time employees reporting gross weekly earnings of £600 and over were members of an employer-sponsored pension scheme, compared with 18% of male and 29% of female full-time employees earning less …”
“In the top three socio-economic categories, around one-third of people interviewed in 2006/08 were members of defined benefit occupational pension schemes, while in the routine occupations category, only 6% belonged to defined benefit occu…”
“Defined contribution occupational pension scheme membership was also more common in the higher categories than the lower categories, ranging from 23% for large employers and higher managerial occupations to 5% for routine occupations”
“UK-based Jaguar Land Rover returned to profitability in the last three months of 2009, posting a profit of £55m, following a loss of £60m in the previous quarter.”
“The world's biggest aluminium producer, Rusal, has reported a net profit of $247m (£169m) for the first three months of 2010.”
“The first Russian company to list in Hong Kong posted a quarterly loss of $638m a year ago, but managed to get a $821m net profit in 2009.”
“Rusal said its revenue rose by 31% to $2.3bn compared with the first quarter of 2009.”
“Last year, Rusal's revenue almost halved to $8.2bn, as the company called 2009 "one of the toughest" years on record for the industry.”
“Shares in Rusal rose by almost 1% on Friday, but remain a quarter below their January listing price.”
“If Toyota decides to settle all the cases, it could cost it $3bn (£2bn).”
“Shares in building and heating materials group Wolseley jumped 8% after it said it was set to beat profit expectations.”
“The latest forecast from City analysts was for it to make profits of £374m in the year to 31 July.”
“Last year, the company raised £1bn by issuing new shares in a rights issue.”
“operating profit more than doubled in the three months to the end of April”
“The latest forecast from City analysts was for it to make profits of £374m in the year to 31 July. However, this is set to be exceeded after operating profit more than doubled in the three months to the end of April...”
“since they announced merger plans in July 2009.”
“Shinsei posted a net loss of 140bn yen ($1.5bn; £1bn) for the year.”
“It is one-third owned by US buyout firm JC Flowers and 24% owned by the government.”
“"We would like to raise capital during this financial year, though the amount will not be that big," said the bank's president Masamoto Yashiro, adding it would be less than 100bn yen.”
“Mizuho Financial, said it planned to boost capital through a share issue worth 800bn yen.”
“net loss of 140bn yen ($1.5bn; £1bn) for the year”
“adding it would be less than 100bn yen”
“Shinsei ended down 4.5% at 106 yen and Aozora down 5% at 114 yen”
“share issue worth 800bn yen”
“It came as Shinsei posted a net loss of 140bn yen ($1.5bn; £1bn) for the year.”
“We would like to raise capital during this financial year, though the amount will not be that big,”
“Shinsei ended down 4.5% at 106 yen”
“and Aozora down 5% at 114 yen.”
“Meanwhile, Japan's second-biggest bank, Mizuho Financial, said it planned to boost capital through a share issue worth 800bn yen.”
“Shinsei ended down 4.5% at 106 yen and Aozora down 5% at 114 yen.”
“Japan's second-biggest bank, Mizuho Financial, said it planned to boost capital through a share issue worth 800bn yen.”
“Net profit for the January to March quarter fell to 103m euros ($129m; £86m) from 170m euros a year ago.”
“But EADS chief executive Louis Gallois said the recent strengthening of the dollar was good news for the company, which sells planes in dollars, but has most of its costs in euros.”
“which makes up about 2.5% of the PPI market.”
“In October last year, mortgage lenders and insurers agreed to refund £60m to customers whose premiums for mortgage payment protection insurance went up in 2009”
“At the same time, all financial firms were told to reopen 185,000 old complaints about PPI they had previously dismissed”
“As part of its initial inquiries which led to the proposed ban, the Competition Commission found that in 2006, lenders made excess profits of £1.4bn when selling the insurance.”
“It found that the vast majority of the UK's 12 million PPI policies were sold at the same time as a consumer took out a loan, credit card or other type of credit.”
“Shares in Japanese electronics giant Sony fell by 7.2% on a disappointing reaction to its profit forecast for the current year.”
“Sony reported an annual loss of 40.8bn yen ($437m; £294m) for the past financial year.”
“Sony expects operating profits of 160bn yen this year, from 31.2bn in 2009/10.”
“In late trading in Tokyo on Friday, Sony shares were down 6.6% to 2,955 yen, as the earnings forecast was below what analysts had been expecting.”
“European Union governments and the International Monetary agreed on a 75bn euro rescue package to prevent a debt crisis from spreading across Europe.”
“Fifteen months after an economic stimulus package was put in place in the US there is much disagreement about whether it has achieved its aim.”
“In February 2009, Congress in Washington approved tax cuts and spending of $787bn (£533bn) to prop up the US economy because companies and people had stopped spending money themselves.”
“He maintains that there has been a good turn-around of growth. "It was minus 6% and now it is plus 6% - but almost all that is due to changes in investment, changes in inventory behaviour, and little to do with government purchases."”
“The stimulus package in the US had very little road building - it was more the transfer payments to individuals, so the reality is [that] of the $787bn, only about $21bn was for infrastructure building in the first year, he says.”
“California received $50bn.”
“Some $197m of that was to build a fourth road tunnel through the hills above Berkeley.”
“The tunnel will create about 4,500 jobs both directly with people working on the project itself and indirectly, such as the suppliers of steel and concrete, or the motels who put up the workers.”
