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“Niesr expects growth of just 1% this year, followed by 2.25% growth in 2011.”
“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.”
“The think tank also said unemployment is likely to peak at 2.7 million in 2011, up from the current total of 2.5 million.”
“We are on the same exchange rate on account of our business relationships.”
“Those projections see the economy growing by between 1% and 1.5% this year, and between 3% and 3.5% in 2011.”
“We have a good sum of our credits invested in your war loans.”
“Consumer spending is expected to rise this year, but by only 0.3%.”
“Tonga, like you has enjoyed a considerable amount of increased revenue from the high price of primary products.”
“the scale of the rise is equivalent to putting up the basic rate of income tax from 20p to 26p in the pound.”
“Only with that type of increase will the national debt eventually fall below the 40% of national income that before the financial crisis was regarded as a prudent level, he said.”
“But it said that growth would be powered by developing economies including China, which has seen double-digit GDP growth over the last 12 months.”
“BP shares plunged 7% on Thursday when it admitted that oil was leaking at a far faster rate than first thought.”
“BP said the clean‑up operation was costing it millions of dollars a day, but this figure could rise dramatically if the oil hits land.”
“In April, the year-on-year increase in house prices returned to double figures for the first time since June 2007, the Nationwide Building Society has said.”
“They say that the picture for buyers, sellers and mortgage applicants is wildly different to three years ago.”
“In 2007, the majority of lenders still offered 95% loan-to-value mortgages and about 15 lenders had 100% loan-to-value rates. Abbey pulled the last 100% mortgage offered by mainstream lenders on 9 April, 2008.”
“There are now just a couple of 95% loan-to-value mortgages available, although we are now seeing a return in 90% mortgage lending.”
“Some mortgage rates may be cheaper now than they were in 2007, he says, but they are not as readily available.”
“Peter Hughes has been an estate agent for 27 years and now operates in West Sussex.”
“When a house came on the market, there were 10 people who wanted it and they started bidding," he says.”
“The agent says that a few days ago he saw the first bidding situation since 2007, although the selling price may have ended up as a one-off.”
“The number of sales is dramatically down on where they were in 2007," he says.”
“Abbey pulled the last 100% mortgage offered by mainstream lenders on 9 April, 2008.”
“The mortgage industry really started to suffer in November and December 2007.”
“The number of sales is dramatically down on where they were in 2007.”
“The Lehman Brothers investment bank collapsed in late 2008”
“For 20 years we serviced that debt with no problem”
“Net profit rose to 793.8bn Russian roubles ($27.1bn; £17.8bn), while sales fell 9% to 2.99 trillion roubles.”
“The firm recently posted quarterly profits which were almost treble what they were a year ago.”
“Which? estimated that four million debit card holders and three million credit and charge card holders in the UK were at risk of disclosing their Pin and having their accounts raided.”
“Some 9% of those who admitted writing down their number had a note of it kept at work.”
“A police unit set up to tackle card fraud said that it had discovered 29,300 compromised card numbers - the long numbers on cards - in 2009.”
“The unit, a team of 20 officers, also discovered 9,700 counterfeit cards in 2009.”
“By mid-afternoon trading, the main stock markets of Paris and Frankfurt had risen by about 1%, while shares in London were up 0.6%.”
“The Athens stock market had surged more than 7%.”
“The euro had risen by more than a cent against the dollar, to $1.3271.”
“The euro also gained ground against the dollar after heavy falls this week.”
“It is expected to be worth 45bn euros ($59bn; £39bn) in the first year, which it urgently needs in order to refinance its huge public debts.”
“This week, heightened concerns about the outlook for the Spanish and Portuguese economies led ratings agency Standard & Poor's to downgrade its credit ratings on both economies, while Greece's government debt was given 'junk' status.”
“Greece's cost of borrowing fell slightly on Thursday morning, reflecting a slight improvement in investors' confidence, but interest rates remain prohibitively high.”
“The eurozone and the IMF have been discussing the terms of a loan package to Greece for a number of weeks.”
“In recent weeks, international investors have shown they are effectively unwilling to lend Greece money.”
“below $1.312”
“to $1.323”
“a loan package worth 45bn euros ($59bn; £39bn) is being discussed, some of which must be delivered by the middle of May if Greece is to avoid defaulting on its immediate debt repayments.”
“The building society said that house prices in the UK had risen by 10.5% in the year to the end of April.”
“Prices rose by 1% in April to push the cost of the average home to £167,802.”
“The building society's figures show that prices in the past three months were just 1.1% higher than in the preceding three months.”
“That was the slowest three-month on three-month rate since June last year.”
“The most recent figures from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) showed that completed sales in the UK jumped by 22% in March from the month before to 72,000.”
“However, apart from last year, that was the lowest March figure since the HMRC's current records started in 1978.”
“The average price of a home in June 2007 was £184,070, compared with £167,802 now, the Nationwide figures show.”
“This means the average first-time buyer still has to put down a 25% deposit to secure a mortgage.”
“with a fall in GDP of over 6%”
“The volume of trade between Iran and Russia now stands at about $3bn (£2bn) a year, almost 10 times less than between Iran and China, says Vladimir Sazhin, a senior fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Scie…”
“Technology supplies from Germany to Iran account for 80% of the volume of trade between the two countries," he says.”
“No US company is allowed to invest more than $20m in the Iranian economy, but Lukoil needed to invest hundreds of millions," said Rajab Safarov, director of the Centre for Contemporary Iranian Studies in Moscow.”
“"No US company is allowed to invest more than $20m in the Iranian economy, but Lukoil needed to invest hundreds of millions," said Rajab Safarov, director of the Centre for Contemporary Iranian Studies in Moscow.”
“The volume of trade between Iran and Russia now stands at about $3bn (£2bn) a year, almost 10 times less than between Iran and China”
“the company announced in March it was taking a $63m loss "for Anaran project in Iran, which was abandoned because of international sanctions"”
“while US firm ConocoPhillips holds about 20% of Lukoil”
“Fed has kept its short term interest rates in the zero to 0.25% range since December 2008.”
“Thomas Hoenig was the only member of the 10-man Fed board to oppose the 'extended period' pledge.”
“Portugal's stock market fell sharply on Wednesday morning, the day after rating agency Standard & Poor downgraded Portuguese government bonds two notches from A+ to A-.”
“The latest available figures show Portugal's total government debt stood at roughly 77% of GDP at the end of 2009.”
“Since joining the single currency [the euro] they've been dealing with some pretty serious competition issues. Costs and wages have been going up ever since they joined.”
“Portugal might well find itself in a situation where it has to borrow money on the international markets at 5.25% interest and then pass it on to Greece at 5%... they might well be tempted to turn to the IMF as well.”
“Prices for credit default swaps (CDS) on Portugal, in essence insurance against a national default, have been rising rapidly in April.”
“Think Northern Rock. Was it not apparent to everybody here that 110/120% mortgages, some partially disguised as unsecured, were dangerous madness?”
“In 2007, about 1.7 million individuals and families in the US received housing education and counselling, with the numbers growing since the early 1990s, the CCCS said.”
“Greece's economy remains in recession and is expected to contract by 3.5% in 2010.”
“the UK's is expected to hit 12.6% this year.”
“Greece's stands at 13.6% according to the EU.”
“While EU rules say these must be limited to 3% of a country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP)”
“the UK's debt level, while high at more than 60% of GDP”
“Greece's stands at about 115% of GDP”
“Greece, which entered the eurozone in 2001.”
“The UK economy saw a return to growth in last three months of 2009”
