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“Snagit is available for free, you can choose to upgrade to Pro, which can be purchased per month for $9.99 a month, or for a year for $99.99.”
“Aim to save at least six months’ worth of living expenses—12 months is even better.”
“This matters because financial services account for roughly 7% of UK GDP and a larger share of tax receipts.”
“The manufacturer of a brand‑name drug can sell it for up to 20 years.”
“Having worked in the world of M&A and private equity (PE) for over 25 years”
“Screencast is similar, offering a free version or Pro for either $.99 per month or $99.99 per year.”
“The global stablecoin market has more than doubled in value in less than two years, swelling from $125bn to roughly $255bn”
“You may be able to get a 90-day supply of Attruby.”
“PE funds typically have a ten-year duration”
“There is only one tier of Audiate, which costs $199.99 per year.”
“That near‑total dollar dominance, 99% of the market”
“Over the past 18 months we have seen an increased number of pre‑emptive deals with PE investors that are making unsolicited approaches to targets”
“Camtasia, however, offers three tiers of plan: Essentials ($15 per month), Create ($21 per month) and Pro ($50 per month), as well as plans for business & education, with prices ranging for $45 to $198 per year.”
“The market could pass $300bn before the digital euro's legislative framework is even finalised”
“The fact that a particular term has been negotiated on each of an investor’s last five deals”
“TechSmith offers student discounts on a number of its plans, which offer as much as 50% off when you verify your status as a student.”
“The European Commission published its proposal in June 2023”
“where he has spent the past 30 years advising on M&A, debt, and special situations”
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“Under an optimistic timeline, a launch before 2027 looks unlikely”
“Plus costs $12.99 per month (or $9.99 per month if you pay yearly).”
“The ECB's Governing Council will receive a progress report on the preparation phase in October”
“you can also opt for the Unlimited plan for $19.99 per month (or $15.99 per month when you get an annual subscription).”
“The Netherlands became the first country to fund the initial PURL package, committing €500 million, approximately $579 million at current exchange rates”
“you'll get a discount that effectively gives you 20% off each month.”
“Sweden pledged $275 million, Norway $135 million, and Denmark approximately $90 million.”
“The $1.08 billion pledged so far (€500 million from the Netherlands plus $500 million from the Nordics)”
“Tusk's government regained access to that money, roughly €35 billion in cohesion funds and €60 billion in recovery grants, on commitments to reverse those changes.”
“Poland's deficit is already above the EU's 3 per cent of GDP threshold, and the European Commission has placed the country under the excessive deficit procedure.”
“$600bn in the United States by the end of Trump's second term”
“0.2% hit to GDP”
“On 6 March 2025, the European Commission approved an €800bn defence mobilisation plan coupled with a proposal for €150bn in EU‑backed loans”
“Germany's €100bn Sondervermögen is largely committed; the Bundestag has not yet legislated the recurring budget uplift”
“France, Italy and Spain face debt‑to‑GDP ratios above 100%, limiting fiscal space without EU‑level borrowing, which the €150bn loan facility only partially addresses”
“reserve requirements drop from 12% to 1% and mortgage lending surges 26%”
“National Bank of Poland now holds 509.3 tonnes of gold, marginally more than the ECB's 506.5 tonnes”
“IMF cuts euro area growth to 0.8% for 2025”
“quarter-point move brings the deposit facility rate down from its 4% peak”
“federal debt above $36 trillion”
“$120 billion”
“12 banks are in onboarding”
“4.25 percent against a bank deposit at 2 percent”
“Europe produces the largest volume of scientific publications on quantum technology worldwide, but it captures only five percent of global private quantum funding. The United States commands over 50 percent and China roughly 40 percent, ac…”
“Henna Virkkunen, the European Commissioner for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, told reporters on Tuesday that Brussels and national capitals have jointly committed €11 billion to quantum technology.”
“He argued that matching US levels would require €100 million per company, a ticket size that barely exists in the European ecosystem.”
“The company raised €189 million in a funding round last month, but the investor syndicate included US-based funds alongside European ones.”
“European governments collectively spend roughly 14 percent of GDP on goods and services.”
“The US model, exemplified by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), selects a cohort of companies, sets a sharp technical target, and backs them with milestone‑based funding that can reach $300 million per participant.”
“Swiss National Bank took its policy rate to zero”
“the Riksbank lowered its key rate to 2.0%”
“Federal Reserve, by contrast, left its target range at 4.25% to 4.50%”
“unemployment, at 4.2%, is low enough”
“the dollar has lost nearly 9% against the euro, pound and Swiss franc since the start of 2025”
“Swiss inflation turned negative in May at -0.1% year-on-year”
“ECB's latest projections see euro-area inflation at 1.6% in 2026”
“Bank of England left its bank rate at 4.25%”
“single currency hit 1.1369 against the dollar in mid-April”
“Only 13% of employed euro-area workers actively search for a new post versus 19% in the US”
“Poland's GDP expanded by 2.7% in 2024, the fastest pace among large EU economies”
“harmonised unemployment stood at 2.9% in April 2025, the lowest in the union”
“the unblocking of €35 billion in EU cohesion funds frozen under the previous government”
“Bulgaria will join the eurozone on 1 January 2026, becoming the 21st member state to adopt the single currency”
“Average HICP inflation over the 12 months to April 2025 stood at 2.7%, comfortably below the ECB's reference threshold”
“Public debt, at 24.1% of GDP in 2024, is the second lowest in the European Union after Estonia and far beneath the 60% treaty ceiling”
“Massimo Suardi, director for economic and financial affairs, described Bulgaria's labour markets as 'relatively flexible and efficient'”
“Philip Lane, the ECB's chief economist, added his institution's congratulations for the 'tremendous dedication to making the adjustments needed'”
“Eurostat data shows that the three Baltic economies have outperformed regional peers in per-capita GDP growth since adoption”
“Bulgaria's currency board, which has pegged the lev to the euro at a fixed rate of 1.95583 since 1997”
“For a country of 6.4 million people”
“Bulgaria's hourly labour costs remain the lowest in the EU, at €8.2 in 2023 according to Eurostat”
“30.3% of the population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion, the highest share in the union”
“Dual pricing, displaying prices in both leva and euro, becomes mandatory from 1 August 2025”
“The changeover weekend, 1-4 January 2026, will see a brief period of dual circulation before the lev ceases to be legal tender”
“Its general government deficit hit 4.7% of gross domestic product in 2024, well above the 3% ceiling set by the Stability and Growth Pact”
“and the Commission projects it will remain above 4% in both 2025 and 2026”
“net nationally financed primary expenditure, the metric that now anchors the EU's fiscal framework, surged by almost 20% in 2024, rose a further 5.4% in 2025, and is on track to increase by more than 8% in 2026”
“The Commission said Bucharest had not taken action to rein in its public finances, a formulation that triggers the possibility of proposing the suspension of EU cohesion policy funds and post-pandemic recovery grants”
“the Commission's latest forecasts show the euro area aggregate deficit at 3.1% of GDP in 2024”
“the cost of that ambiguity is now measurable in a €304.5 billion trade gap”
“roughly 20 percent of global reserves”
“58 percent”
“since 2015”
“above 60 percent”
“above 130 percent of GDP; France's is near 110 percent”
“roughly 35 percent”
“1.9 percent of GDP in 2023”
“roughly 1 percent of GNI”
“€111 million in pre-accession assistance”
“509.3 tonnes of gold, a figure that edges past the 506.5 tonnes held by the European Central Bank (ECB)”
“Gold now accounts for 22% of the NBP's total reserve assets, above the bank's own 20% target”
“At current market prices, the holding is valued at roughly €44.3 billion”
“by the end of 2024 the portfolio showed an unrealised gain of 60 billion zloty (€14.12 billion) over its purchase cost”
“Roughly 20% is currently stored in Poland, with the remainder split between the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of England in London”
“Over several months in 2019, the NBP transported 100 tonnes, 8,000 bars, from the Bank of England's vaults in London to Poland on eight chartered flights”
“In 1996, the NBP held just 14 tonnes of gold. By the time Glapiński took office in 2016, the stockpile had risen to 102 tonnes”
“the most dramatic increase came after February 2022: in the two years following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the bank more than doubled its holdings from 228 tonnes to 480 tonnes”
“The World Gold Council reported that 2024 saw the third consecutive year of annual central-bank purchases exceeding 1,000 tonnes”
“walls stacked with 8,000 bars, each weighing 12.5 kilograms”
“raised the proposed 2028-2035 spending ceiling above the Commission's €1.76 trillion”
“cards accounting for 56% of all cashless transactions in the first half of 2024, according to ECB data, amounting to more than 40 billion transactions.”
