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“loss to the Treasury over the next ten years will be of the order of £500 million”
“yesterday, the U.N. Council told Iraq it could sell two billion dollars worth of oil to help finance purchases of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies.”
“It receives about $7 million a year in funding from the government.”
“25 per cent return on capital”
“We are on the same exchange rate on account of our business relationships.”
“it is not a member of EMU and may not be for another five years”
“We have a good sum of our credits invested in your war loans.”
“the adoption of the common currency from next month will bring with it an agenda of fiscal and other harmonisation in its train”
“Tonga, like you has enjoyed a considerable amount of increased revenue from the high price of primary products.”
“tax was rising rapidly on labour and falling on capital”
“harmful tax competition between states was intensifying and should be ended”
“savings and corporate taxation should be 'co-ordinated'”
“he recognises that he must tickle his members’ ideological tastes as much as the government’s, as they provide one-third of the society’s cash.”
“The biggest headache for think-tanks is that they offer a salary of only £35,000 or so but want to attract people with an unusually wide range of skills: political savvy, academic credibility, ideas and the ability to hustle for funds.”
“The increasingly influential new Centre for European Reform was lucky to attract Charles Grant as its director, after he took a pay cut from the Economist.”
“When we asked them to give us £100,000 – to match the £100,000 from the Rowntree Reform Trust – the cash came within a few weeks.”
“During the summer months, the UK stock market fell 20 per cent.”
“FTSE has virtually retraced its steps back to the summit, near 6,000.”
“There has been a 6 per cent rise in the past month alone and 13.9 per cent so far this year.”
“The Dow Jones Industrial Average in the US has gone up 18.5 per cent this year and nearly 11 per cent this month, back to a record high.”
“The German DAX has beaten both, rising 12.8 per cent this month and 26.8 per cent this calendar year.”
“Investment managers in the UK usually hold 4 per cent of their portfolio in cash. At the moment, they have nearly 11 per cent.”
“Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer, no pessimist he, revised down his forecast for GDP for 1999 to 1 per cent.”
“The average of all the forecasts in the City is for corporate earnings growth in the same year of 9 per cent.”
“It is a rare investment bank that recommends selling more than ten of the FTSE 100 companies.”
“Yet 48 FTSE companies have performed worse than the market over the past 12 months.”
“Vodafone, for example, has gone up 101 per cent more than the market since January.”
“CEPR’s 15th anniversary”
“Euro X committee – the group of finance ministers from the 11 European member states which are part of the single currency.”
“Euro X group to elect a president and vice‑president – one of whom would always be from France, Germany or Italy.”
“Britain will be outside this group for some years – possibly until 2005.”
“has fallen by 40 per cent”
“the rand by another 20 per cent”
“interest rates moved above 25 per cent”
“the Euro X committee – the group of finance ministers from the 11 European member states which are part of the single currency.”
“possibly until 2005, according to some calculations.”
“Because of the secrecy that surrounds them we can’t know how much. The most recent estimate is around $6 trillion, approximately the annual world trade in goods and services, or about one-third of all global wealth.”
“It’s the same in the offshore financial centres nearer home. Deposits in the Channel Isles and the Isle of Man probably amount to £400 billion.”
“Then there is the money that simply passes through the offshore centres on its way somewhere else. One American study believes that up to half of all global transactions are conducted electronically via the offshore financial centres.”
“In Jersey and Guernsey, non-resident companies have been able to adopt new types of tax status, which means they can negotiate tax rates of less than 2 per cent.”
