Dollar sunk by imbalance of payments
People have been complaining about a weak euro for eighteen months, and now there's a lot of excitement just because it goes up 1%."
So commented a senior European monet...
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Balance of payments
Hans and wife Marit: · Wadhurst Park, East Sussex.
Purchase price unknown. Spending on improvements includes:
· Reconstruction of main house £1.4m;
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Glitch holds up salary payments
Arrangements were hurriedly put in place late this week in an attempt to make sure thousands of people affected by a bank computer error were not left cashless this Easte...
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Plan to make media payments to witnesses a criminal offence
Journalists and editors who agree to pay witnesses in criminal trials for their stories will be guilty of a criminal offence which could be punishable by prison under pro...
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Tax deadline nears on back-payments
Time is running out if you want to take advantage of a generous tax relief by making back-payments into your pension fund.
At the end of next month the opportunity to p...
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Fixed payments plan for victims of NHS errors
Fixed-rate payments for victims of medical negligence are to be proposed in a white paper later this year as ministers struggle to contain the mounting legal costs of com...
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Nazis' forced labourers to get payments
After nearly a year of delays, the German parliament last night opened the way for compensation payments for more than 1m people forced to toil for the Third Reich.
A s...
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Gillingham in probe over alleged illegal payments
Gillingham's chairman Paul Scally yesterday vehemently denied allegations that the club had been guilty of financial irregularities.
A private investigator has compiled...
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Payments for moving in Tory benefit plan
People on housing benefit will be offered cash incentives to move into smaller homes under Tory plans to slash £425m from the social security budget, it was announce...
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Britain to drop debt payments
Britain is to renounce its right to interest payments on £1bn owed by developing countries, in a last-ditch attempt to secure financial help for 41 of the world's po...
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