Small-cap stocks favoured by local investors were the top gainers.
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This sort of "hard Brexit" is favoured by the keenest Brexiteers.
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Second- and third-tier stocks favoured by local day traders outperformed.
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But it is found only in specific places favoured by geology.
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The insurance sector, favoured by speculative day traders, tumbled 0.43 percent.
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Several other stocks favoured by foreign institutional investors also rose sharply.
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"Functional drinks", favoured by the health-conscious, are going down well.
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It is unsurprising, then, that emerging markets are favoured by "value" investors.
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But robbing banks is no longer favoured by the most enterprising robber.
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A couple of blue chips favoured by foreign investors boosted Egypt's market.
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Global Telecom Holding, a stock favoured by foreign traders, climbed 25 percent.
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Dubai's index added 0.4 percent as shares favoured by foreign funds rose.
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The cash option, which is favoured by nearly all winners, is $372 million.
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This kind of sturdy, discount grog is often favoured by the hardest drinkers.
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The insurance sub-index, usually favoured by local retail traders, fell 4.1 percent.
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Using a slogan favoured by President Donald Trump, he talks of "energy dominance".
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In both countries the party favoured by older voters won a thumping victory.
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Much activity focused on second- or third-tier stocks favoured by local speculators.
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EFG Hermes, one of the shares favoured by foreign funds, fell 2913 percent.
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Opinion polls over decades have favoured by massive numbers a change in the law.
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Their analysis relies on data from Yelp, a restaurant-review app favoured by millennials.
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That is the solution favoured by Romeu Rufino, chief of Brazil's electricity regulatory agency.
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Commercial International Bank, an Egyptian share favoured by international fund managers, retreated 3.7 percent.
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MIIT, which regulates manufacturers, supports a more flexible credit trading system favoured by automakers.
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Speculative shares, favoured by local day traders and which are usually heavily traded, dropped.
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He had played "Counter-Strike", a violent computer game also favoured by other shooters.
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Commercial International Bank, one of the stocks favoured by international funds, climbed 20.3 percent.
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The mood may be shifting against the state-slimming reforms favoured by Mr Guedes.
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Take four litres of culture containing E. coli (a gut bacterium favoured by genetic engineers).
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His radicalisation was his own work, accelerated by worshipping at a mosque favoured by extremists.
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He is favoured by farmers who have thrived on Chinese demand for New Zealand's milk.
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The following day a car favoured by Bond, the Aston Martin DB5, was auctioned for $2.7m.
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One measure favoured by central banks is the medium-term inflation-linked swap rate (see chart).
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He might try amir al-mumineen (commander of the faithful), an honorific favoured by Muslim rulers.
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The winner -- at least in the terms of crude mercantilism favoured by some -- could be Europe.
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Investment bank and brokerage firm EFG Hermes, a stock favoured by foreign funds, added 2565 percent.
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Without a will, they may be made homeless by blood relatives favoured by the intestacy rules.
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Shares favoured by foreign funds were the top performers, with Global Telecom Holding leaping 0.33 percent.
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The fourth proposal, currently favoured by Infantino, is for 48 teams divided into 16 groups of three.
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As a result, he found that the Bulldogs should be favoured by only a slim margin of .
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The honest-broker role, favoured by diplomatic realists, used to be a mainstay of Canada's international brand.
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Adawi is said to be favoured by regional neighbours at odds with Bashir over his Islamist leanings.
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The race is mainly between Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, generally favoured by financial markets, and Dlamini-Zuma.
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In clamping down on debt, regulators' targets are the debt-laden investments favoured by China's insurance upstarts.
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Some shares favoured by international funds surged, such as telecommunications operator Vodafone Qatar, which jumped 6.7 percent.
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Traders said margin calls added to the pressure, especially in smaller-capital stocks favoured by local speculators.
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The dollar, with the highest yields in the G10, has been favoured by investors for many months.
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Small cap stocks, favoured by the retail investors who dominate transactions on Chinese exchanges, sold off sharply.
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Orascom Telecom, the most heavily traded stock and one favoured by local day traders, gained 3.8 percent.
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Synthetic graphite is increasingly favoured by battery makers because its molecules are more uniform than mined graphite.
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That means the universal basic income favoured by the M5S and the lower taxes advocated by the League.
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The merit of this approach—or indeed the 603-260 rule favoured by many pension funds—is simplicity.
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Insurance stocks favoured by local retail speculators also surged on Tuesday, with Al Rajhi Takaful up 3.9 percent.
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Would it, for example, have the power to veto a candidate who was favoured by Beijing's secular authorities?
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The share of interest-only loans, favoured by speculators, was as high as 40% (it has since fallen).
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Shares favoured by foreign funds were some of the top performers,with Global Telecom Holding jumping 25 percent.
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In Pui O, an area of Lantau favoured by many of the buffaloes, the animals occupy abandoned fields.
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The other path, favoured by some wannabe leaders, would be to find the party a wholly new purpose.
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Some second- and third-tier shares favoured by local speculators surged, with property developer Alandalus jumping 3.3 percent.
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Often favoured by supporters of Brexit to describe the views of their opponents, whom they cast as foolish.
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The Swiss franc, also favoured by investors in times of uncertainty, rose against the dollar after the statement.
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Singapore, where Dyson has manufacturing capacity, is thought to be favoured by the business, according to multiple people.
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Global Telecom Holding and Commercial International Bank, shares favoured by foreign investors, lost 20.1 percent and 25 percent respectively.
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Another possible reason is that it has become harder to commit suicide using the methods favoured by the elderly.
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Gold is already favoured by those who want to keep their savings beyond the reach of government and taxman.
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Blue-chip stocks favoured by foreign investors surged with Commercial International Bank, the largest listed lender, jumping 4.5 percent.
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The aircraft are Gulfstream executive jets, favoured by jet-setting business people for their long range and plush interiors.
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More recently he favours edgier outfits, including the classic black turtleneck favoured by Silicon Valley luminaries like Steve Jobs.
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Impeachment takes much longer (one reason why it is favoured by some in Saenuri, which has no strong candidate yet).
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So a better way of removing glucose from the blood and into storage cells will be favoured by natural selection.
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This does not mean that the sort of strict oversight favoured by liberal, multi-ethnic northern California will fly everywhere.
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This is the approach favoured by many LGBT groups, who lobby for risk assessments to focus on individuals not groups.
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Global Telecom Holding, one of the stocks favoured by international funds, was the top performer with a 3.4 percent gain.
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Their system, Dirichlet process mixture modelling, is more sophisticated than the criminal geographic targeting (CGT) currently favoured by crime-fighters.
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So far 96 countries, including Switzerland, once favoured by rich taxophobes, have signed up and will soon start swapping information.
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Another part of the answer, favoured by Italy's prime minister, Matteo Renzi, is that the area's buildings are very old.
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In the jargon of Eurocrats, this threatened "intergovernmental" approach is the direct opposite of the "supranational" path favoured by federalists.
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Demonetization resulted in a sharp slowdown in sales of the cheaper motorcycles favoured by first-time buyers in rural areas.
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Underground warfare is tactic long favoured by Palestinian militant groups in Gaza, who are heavily outgunned by the Israeli military.
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Its Mercedes-Benz brand of saloon cars and SUVs is favoured by the rich world's professionals and the developing world's politicians.
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Shares favoured by foreign funds weighed on Egypt's blue-chip index, which fell 0.33 percent; Global Telecom Holding lost 20.3 percent.
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Loans continued to be favoured by private equity firms seeking additional flexibility, and exceeded high-yield bond issuance of US$12.94bn.
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They have no time for arguments favoured by academic feminists about whether the veil is a form of emancipation or oppression.
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Mr Kudrin made it clear that the technical tinkering favoured by the Kremlin cannot pull Russia out of its economic trough.
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She is more interested in artists who want to change the world than in the stars favoured by the art market.
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Such a tie-up, though favoured by many in the markets, would also risk alienating many of the Socialists' core supporters.
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Many of the groups favoured by affirmative action have grown more prosperous or done better educationally since these policies were introduced.
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That gave the upper hand to candidates favoured by the etablishment, even as the country as a whole became less conservative.
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They plan to build "Paradise Found", a $250m resort on the site of K Club, a getaway favoured by Princess Diana.
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Overblown forum signatures and ASCII art became commonplace during this period, favoured by meowers as tools of passive aggressive self-expression.
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The American-born finance minister, Natalie Yaresko, is favoured by some reformers, including Mr Abromavicius, yet she has expressed no interest.
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It was a result obviously favoured by Airbnb, which has slowly but surely been lobbying its way to legality across Australia.
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Morawiecki, an ex-banker, is broadly favoured by Kaczynski, while Szydlo lacked the full trust of the party's chairman, analysts say.
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Small and mid-cap insurance stocks, which are favoured by speculative traders, also advanced, headed for a third day of gains.
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That, after all, was the strategy favoured by the Obama administration - and then ripped up by Trump without any discernible alternative.
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Global Telecom and Commercial International Bank , shares favoured by international portfolio managers, were each up by more than 1.5 percent on Tuesday.
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Her opponent, Toni Preckwinkle, had been overwhelmingly favoured by teachers: the CTU gave $164,000 to Ms Preckwinkle's campaign, none to Ms Lightoot's.
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On Tuesday some stocks favoured by local investors were the top gainers, with Arabian Cement jumping 9.9 percent to 7.75 Egyptian pounds.
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Blessedly short on the gimmicks favoured by many of his predecessors in the Treasury, its most significant chapter was on official forecasts.
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Chinese regulations forbid dual-class shares, a structure favoured by tech entrepreneurs because it means they can raise capital while retaining control.
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Low-tax Ireland, currently favoured by tech firms, would be an estimated €160m a year worse off if the EU pressed ahead.
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Already the banks have responded to the pressure by hiking rates on investment loans, and particularly interest-only loans favoured by speculators.
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Operating income before depreciation and amortisation (OIBDA), the core earnings metric favoured by management, rose by 3.2 percent to 461 million euros.
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The first tends to be favoured by those who voted Remain in the 2016 referendum, the second by those who voted Leave.
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Kombucha, the vinegary drink made from fermented black or green tea leaves and favoured by Californian Instagrammers, is officially cool in Britain.
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Alinma Bank, a stock favoured by local day traders, reported a 13.7 percent rise in profit to 391 million riyals ($104.3 million).
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The opposition Democrats are favoured by election forecasters to pick up the first of the 2476 seats to gain a House majority.
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Small-cap stocks favoured by local retail traders tumbled, with Abu Dhabi National Insurance and Invest Bank plunging 10.0 and 5.6 percent.
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Traders said margin calls following recent heavy losses were adding to selling pressure, especially in smaller-capital stocks favoured by local speculators.
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She also wants to spur growth outside London, and not merely in the "northern powerhouse", around Manchester, much favoured by Mr Osborne.
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But the order she has in mind seems like the looser Europe once favoured by the British, not that of the federalists.
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This confirmed key members of the economic management team including Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek, favoured by foreign investors as a reformer.
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WhatsApp is not as popular as the local app WeChat, but it is favoured by some for its end-to-end encryption.
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Much activity focused on second- and third-tier stocks favoured by local retail speculators, such as Saudi Fisheries , which surged 3.9 percent.
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Gay marriage is favoured by 215% of Greeks aged from 241 to 82, but only 228% of their compatriots aged 225 and above.
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Ms Shi watches far-flung Chinese parks come alive with their own group dancing on Huoshan, a short-video app favoured by teens.
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In neighbouring Dubai shares favoured by short-term retail investors were the most active, with builder Arabtec jumping 2355 percent to 20.7 dirhams.
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The photogram was a technique favoured by surrealists like Man Ray, who made abstract compositions by simply placing objects on light-sensitive paper.
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UKIP's current leader Paul Nuttall has backed off that pledge but a ban is still favoured by some of that party's senior members.
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AG Barr, maker of Irn-Bru, an electric-orange concoction favoured by Scots, has brought almost all its drinks below the sugar threshold.
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An anti-corruption court favoured by civil-society activists, reformist MPs and Western donors faces resistance from entrenched interests, including Mr Poroshenko himself.
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Egypt's index fell 1.6 percent on Sunday in reaction to the attacks, with most of the stocks favoured by foreign funds exiting positions.
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Most gainers on Wednesday, however, were speculative stocks favoured by local retail investors, such as Saudi Printing and Packaging Co, up 0.4 percent.
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The Dubai index added 2674 percent as stocks favoured by local day traders were the most active; builder Drake & Scull climbed 20.04 percent.
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Russia is favoured by bond investors too because falling inflation may bring 150-200 basis points in official interest rate cuts next year.
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Some of the shares favoured by foreign funds outperformed with Global Telecom Holding adding 2132 percent and Commercial International Bank rising 20.2 percent.
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The offer made by the businessman was favoured by the refinery's financiers who were primarily Gulf-based lenders, another source with knowledge said.
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However, regulators have intensified pressure in recent months to slow down lending, in particular interest-only loans which are massively favoured by speculative investors.
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Abu Dhabi's benchmark added 0.4 percent in its eighth straight session of gains, with volumes concentrated in mid-sized companies favoured by local traders.
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Although social media sites such as Facebook count 1.6 billion users daily, television advertising is still favoured by advertisers for brand building and awareness.
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Or the inquiry could be extended—an idea favoured by the Labor Party, which is on course to win an election due next year.
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Blue chips favoured by foreign investors outperformed with Commercial International Bank, the largest listed lender, jumping 5.7 percent and Global Telecom up 0.23 percent.
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That plan - announced on Friday - has been welcomed by markets, which believe it made the "soft Brexit" favoured by businesses and investors more likely.
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Egypt's index lost 2918 percent as stocks favoured by foreign investors were among the worst performers, including Commercial International Bank, which fell 20.7 percent.
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The bag is favoured by merchants and shoppers for its ability to fit plenty of stuff as well as its ease of transporting around.
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The yield on French 10-year government bonds — a market favoured by Japanese investors — dropped 4 basis points to 1.23 percent in early trade.
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It is the most significant sign yet that Mr Johnson's government will abandon the hostile approach to immigration favoured by his predecessor, Theresa May.
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An opinion poll in October showed opposition leaders were favoured by about 70 percent of voters but Fayulu trailed his rivals on eight percent.
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In the UAE, Dubai's index fell 0.6 percent as some shares favoured by speculative investors weakened, including GFH Financial Group, which lost 3.3 percent.
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Shares favoured by short-term retail traders were the most active, with GFH Financial soaring 6.3 percent and property developer DAMAC jumping 7.5 percent.
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It is an unsubtle reference to "The Power of Positive Thinking", a self-help book by Norman Vincent Peale, and one favoured by Mr Trump.
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That holds some appeal to localists like this newspaper, but localism needs transparency and accountability, not the easily manipulated committees favoured by the British left.
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The path favoured by most candidates involves staying on the party's previous course as an anti-establishment, populist party, ready to pounce on Brexit backsliding.
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One investment app favoured by many younger and less sophisticated investors has said that their clients have been piling into the stock since the crash.
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He dismissed the idea that increased cell phones behind the wheel was to blame for the 2015 hike, a theory favoured by some safety officials.
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The pro-business mayor of Buenos Aires lagged in the polls behind Daniel Scioli, the candidate favoured by Argentina's outgoing president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
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Corbyn's Labour Party, which is traditionally favoured by voters to run the NHS, has said it will outspend the Conservatives if it wins the election.
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Then at election time, firms "get calls from clients, or from the Bank of China", urging block-voting for candidates favoured by the Liaison Office.
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Such shares grant differentiated voting rights and underpin the alternative governance and shareholding structures favoured by many owners of new age industries such as technology.
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It sits on a quiet street off Oxford Road, far from the flashy VIP venues in Deansgate favoured by reality TV stars and minor celebrities.
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NIESR's report did not look at the option favoured by Prime Minister Theresa May, which would see a looser EU trading relationship than a customs union.
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TOURISTS FLOCK to Kendal, a town in north-west England, for its rural beauty, tea rooms and mint cake (a local sugary confection favoured by hikers).
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Ground staff used to be able to revert to manual systems during IT failures, but such backups are no longer favoured by supposedly tech-savvy firms.
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And yet now some of those same people howl in outrage at Infantino's World Cup expansion, an idea very unlikely to have been favoured by Blatter.
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Mr Shanahan's notion of responsible competition—in contrast to the no-holds-barred clash of civilisations favoured by some of his head-banging colleagues—is laudable.
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In the United Arab Emirates, the Dubai index fell 0.4 percent as some shares favoured by speculative investors weakened, including Shuaa Capital, which dropped 2.4 percent.
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Most shares gaining ground were second- or third-tier stocks favoured by local retail speculators, such as Al Sagr Cooperative Insurance, which was up 1.3 percent.
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Saudi Arabia outperformed, rising 25 percent, although trading volume shrank further to a moderate level and many banks and petrochemicals favoured by institutional investors were sluggish.
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Polls consistently show Corbyn's Labour is favoured by younger voters over the Conservatives, whereas the over 50s and pensioners have a strong preference for the Conservatives.
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Loans continued to be favoured by private equity sponsors seeking additional flexibility and issuance outstripped high-yield bond volume of US$39.3bn in the first half.
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The yen's biggest gains were against the traditional high-yielding currencies favoured by domestic Japanese retail investors such as the Australian dollar and the Turkish lira.
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The policy is expected to bring more long-term funds into the stocks market, benefiting the blue-chips, favoured by institutional investors looking for solid fundamentals.
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Bitcoin, heavily favoured by enthusiasts and retail investors since it emerged more than a decade ago, has gained increasing interest from hedge funds and trading firms.
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However, they are also good at frugal engineering, throwing together cheap solutions that can get to market faster than the gold-plated ones favoured by Western innovators.
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Despite the prosperity brought by 70 years under a more open trading system, it now seems that opinion may have changed: tariffs are favoured by "populist" politicians.
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The rate, favoured by the European Central Bank as a gauge of the market's inflation expectations, is well below the ECB's inflation target of roughly 2 percent.
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Paris has attracted a wide range of financial firms; Dublin and Luxembourg are popular with asset managers; Amsterdam is favoured by trading firms and market-infrastructure providers.
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And though it need not, such accounts could represent a first step away from deposit-financing of bank lending: a reform favoured by some economists and regulators.
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The model also finds that unilateral British trade liberalisation, a policy favoured by many Brexiteers, may mitigate losses under the WTO option by only 0.2% of GDP.
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Egypt's top administrative court this week backed the international standard favoured by suppliers, freezing a lower court order that would have re-instated the total ergot ban.
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The lender, a stock favoured by local day traders, said on Monday it made a profit of 391 million riyals ($104.3 million) or a 0.43 percent rise.
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But the talks become mired in disputes over potential loopholes in rules governing international carbon trading, favoured by wealthier countries to reduce the cost of cutting emissions.
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Although spot premiums for crude have risen across the board, Russian crude grades are being favoured by Asian buyers "mainly due to freight", said a Chinese trader.
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Small and mid-sized stocks favoured by local retail investors were the most active, with Islamic insurer Dar Al Takaful hitting its 2817 percent daily gain limit.
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DUBAI, May 29 (Reuters) - Gulf stock markets were mixed in quiet, early trade on Monday with low-priced shares favoured by local retail investors lifting Dubai's bourse.
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The electric guitars and harmonicas favoured by Chicago bluesmen such as Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Jimmy Reed made for a new sound, one that proved commercially potent.
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Although the Conservatives outpolled the Liberals, most votes went to parties that prefer the redistributionist policies favoured by Mr Trudeau to the small-state philosophy of Mr Scheer.
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Other companies favoured by insurers, including China Vanke Co Ltd, China State Construction Engineering Corp Ltd and Poly Real Estate Group Co Ltd, also saw their shares tumble.
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He recorded an album, "Anar", in Nigeria in 2008, combining droning guitars with drum-machine beats and the auto-tuned vocals favoured by Nigerian pop at the time.
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Jabari told Reuters he seeks "complete participation between Israeli and Palestinian businessmen in Judea and Samaria", using the biblical term for the West Bank favoured by many Israelis.
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Trump also said he was in no rush and had no pressing schedule for North Korea's denuclearisation, hinting at a more gradual, reciprocal approach, long favoured by Pyongyang.
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Meanwhile, May's Conservatives, who are generally favoured by older voters, are thought to have alienated younger voters with their continued austerity measures and hard-line stance on Brexit.
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Under the proposal, Britain and the European Union would recognise each other's regulatory and supervisory regimes, an option long favoured by the financial services industry, the FT said.
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The yen reserved some of its biggest gains against the traditional high-yielding currencies favoured by domestic retail investors such as the Australian dollar and the Turkish lira.
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Lagarde's nomination if confirmed "should ensure a continuation of the pragmatic approach to policy-setting at the ECB favoured by (current president Mario) Draghi," analysts at Daiwa said.
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BT has reported less volatile asset quality than the sector average, and has also preferred in-house recoveries to the large NPL sales favoured by several of its peers.
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In that case, any adaptation which enhanced the number and fitness of a male's firstborn clutch, even at the expense of his life, would be favoured by natural selection.
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American officials, including Mr Pence this week, have made it clear that the policy of "strategic patience" favoured by the Obama administration in dealing with North Korea is ending.
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The Viennese school placed the lived experience of individuals—rather than the abstractions of class, race and nationalism favoured by their opponents—at the heart of their intellectual enterprises.
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Since 2009 the industry has been the most favoured by global fund managers for 80% of the time, according to a regular survey by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
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"Deregulation to compensate for smaller fiscal stimulus would not be favoured by the general public, but it will be later in the year should disappointment creep in," he added.
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Now, terror has struck seaside festivities for the country's national day at one of its most famous resorts, favoured by Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and painted by Matisse and Dufy.
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Business Insider on Wednesday visited a street in Belgravia, an upscale district in London favoured by the superrich, where Maxwell owns a mews house and used to host parties.
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"Anyone can drink raki or swim with a bikini freely," she said, referring to the alcoholic drink favoured by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the modern secular republic.
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"We focused on stocks rated Overweight by our analysts that also were favoured by our US Equity Strategy Team's 'BEST' model," the Morgan Stanley analysts wrote in Thursday's note.
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Iran's hardliners, long favoured by Khamenei and ever more dominant after Friday's election, may now have the political space to engage with Washington if they judge it is necessary.
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One of the most popular alternatives among lawmakers, including Labour members, is Britain staying in a customs union with the EU, an option also favoured by many business leaders.
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Chinese markets had been trending higher, bolstered by heated buying in modestly-valued big-caps, especially those favoured by heavyweight insurance players like Foresea Life, Anbang Group and Evergrande Insurance.
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An extended weekend break, favoured by many Americans, risks adding to the stress, as a high proportion of the vacation period is spent travelling to and from the desired destination.
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To adapt another metaphor favoured by Ms McCloskey, the World Bank has built a sleek sports car; now it must shame governments into building roads that are worthy of it.
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The summer of 2016 was a torrid one for that country's beaches, as many local authorities decreed bans on the burkini, a full-body swimsuit favoured by some Muslim women.
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Politicians will instead turn to "People's QE", a policy (favoured by Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the opposition Labour Party in Britain) of personal tax cuts paid for by printing money.
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After all, it was a good education in his mother tongue, rather than in the classics then favoured by the British aristocracy, that won Churchill the Nobel prize for literature.
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L.K. Bennett, a high street brand favoured by Britain's Duchess of Cambridge, expects to open a second Russian shop later this year and also plans to launch an online store.
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Loans continued to be favoured by private equity sponsors seeking additional flexibility and cheaper pricing and volume was higher than high-yield bond issuance, which was US$97.47bn in 2019.
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The Saudi index fell 0.3 percent as much activity focused on second-tier stocks favoured by local speculators; Wafa Insurance jumped its 10 percent daily limit in unusually heavy trade.
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Besides the shift to home drinking, partly boosted by a ban on smoking in 2017, traditional pubs are also up against more wine and cocktail bars favoured by some younger drinkers.
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The proposal leaves Europe facing a multi-track senior unsecured market, with most institutions issuing a combination of unpreferred and preferred senior debt; similar to the route favoured by the French.
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Mr Spicer noted that border-adjustment would raise about $10bn a year from the trade deficit with Mexico alone, assuming a tax rate of 20% (which is favoured by House Republicans).
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Concern for their welfare may buoy support for a new farm bill—but the version favoured by Republicans in the House of Representatives would make even richer farmers eligible for payments.
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The alternative is for Congress to establish either a bipartisan committee comprised of its members—a variant favoured by Senator John McCain—or an independent commission made up of outside experts.
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Rail freight was said to be one gauge of economic growth favoured by Premier Li Keqiang when he was the Communist Party secretary of northeastern Liaoning province in the mid-2000s.
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But the deal also affected trade flows in Asia as the bulk of the barrels that OPEC and Russia removed were medium to heavy crudes, largely favoured by Asia's complex refineries.
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In time, this step should encourage the renminbi's use as a reserve currency, as most long-term fixed-income debt securities favoured by central banks are traded in China's interbank market.
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Two months after the last efforts to repeal the ACA failed, Congress passed, and Mr Trump ultimately signed, a tax-cut package that would have been favoured by any Republican president.
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One favoured by modellers involves first growing plants, which suck up atmospheric carbon dioxide through photosynthesis, and then burning them in power stations which store the carbon dioxide they produce underground.
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To offset a border-adjusted tax of 20%—the rate favoured by House Republicans—the greenback would need to rise fully 25%, enough to destabilise emerging markets burdened with dollar-denominated debts.
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Other brands favoured by the soon-to-be royal in the last week have included British labels Joseph and Kurt Geiger, European brands P.A.R.O.S.H and Wolford, as well as Canadian-based Mackage.
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But the Massachusetts senator—who is favoured by around a quarter of Democrats, mostly left-leaning ones, to be their party's presidential candidate—has proved especially quick in showing up beside strikers.
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"Enhanced supervision"—favoured by ESMA—would mean adopting the American model, in which clearing-houses that deal directly with American clients, such as the LCH, are also supervised by the American regulator.
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Of course, there are already branded milks favoured by specialist coffee shops—including Yeo Valley Organic and Northiam Dairy—but Estate Dairy's version is the first to be created specifically for baristas.
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As Mrs May has been at pains to point out, this is true in spades for any other deal, especially for the looser Canadian-style free-trade deal favoured by many Brexiteers.
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THE candidate of the Constitutional Democratic Party (CDP), Akira Nagatsuma, spoke from the top of a gaisensha, a van adorned with banners and loudspeakers of the sort favoured by campaigning Japanese politicians.
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The Saudi index dropped 0.4 percent as the petrochemical sector pulled back 0.7 percent, although many second-tier stocks favoured by local retail speculators were strong, with Wafa Insurance up 1.7 percent.
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As well as helping Rome deliver on its promises to overhaul Italy's banking system, it would ensure Monte dei Paschi stays in Italian hands, a scenario favoured by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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The £2bn race to own London City, an airport favoured by corporate executives, has been won by a Canadian-led consortium of pension funds, narrowly beating rival bids from two Chinese groups.
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Some companies are so favoured by investors that their bonds trade with negative yields: investors are buying their debt at a price that exceeds the value of the interest payments and principal.
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Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe said altering a tax break overwhelmingly favoured by wealthy property investors known as 'negative gearing' would help take some heat out of the housing market.
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Domestic producers have long complained about cheap imports from overseas companies of chicken portions still on the bone, popular locally but generally less favoured by consumers in the United States and Europe.
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The colourful terminology is partly a reflection of Pakistan's rich linguistic heritage, peppered with English terms such as "blue-eyed boy" (one favoured by those in power) and "red lines" (forbidden subjects).
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Asia's spot premiums for Middle East, Russian, West African and Brazilian crude have all dropped this month with grades favoured by Chinese buyers, such as ESPO, Lula and Angolan, hurt the most.
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She had ditched the modern clothes she wore during her first visit to see her father in 22003 and now had on the full face veil favoured by more conservative Muslim women.
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However, investors were cautious ahead of Friday's non-farm payrolls as the ADP figures have proven a poor indicator for the awaited jobs report by the government, which is favoured by the Fed.
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After their experience in 27—when Hillary Clinton, who had been favoured by election pollsters and prognosticators, was dealt a stunning defeat—Democrats do not want to be fooled by the polls again.
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Rather, marriage is favoured by well-off people and some ethnic minorities, especially immigrants and the offspring of immigrants from countries such as Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Somalia, which have strong marriage cultures.
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He loses the election to a candidate favoured by the old guard and Indonesia is back to business as usual—except that nobody even calls it the country of the future any more.
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In an attempt to identify where Germany's "ideal" districts for newly-arrived migrant families are located, The Economist has created an index based on alternative measures to those favoured by the German authorities.
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Demand by institutional investors to increase exposure to the more illiquid strategies favoured by Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) has increased strongly in recent years as returns in some more traditional markets have waned.
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The procurement of the Israeli drones, favoured by the military because they are compatible with models they already own, has been a matter of contention between the parties in the ruling coalition government.
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Other stocks favoured by local traders, which had pulled the market up in recent days, saw profit-taking on Wednesday, with Gulf Finance House down 0.6 percent and Amlak Finance off 1.2 percent.
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Offshore holdings of Negotiable Certificates of Deposit (NCDs), short-term debt favoured by small banks, rose by 13 billion yuan in January to 170.3 billion yuan, Reuters calculated from Shanghai Clearing House data.
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ANNEGRET KRAMP-KARRENBAUER - Sometimes dubbed 'mini Merkel' or AKK, Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, is the continuity candidate and favoured by the CDU elite for her ability to unite the party and deliver election victories.
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Mr Trump's insurgency contains at most one of those ingredients, in the form of long-standing unhappiness among some working-class Republicans with the liberal immigration and trade policies favoured by the party's elite.
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The yield on French 10-year government bonds — a market favoured by Japanese investors — dropped 4 basis points to 0.71 percent in early trade while the German equivalent fell 3 bps at 0.415 percent.
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She will have responsibility for the collections and image of Brioni, whose suits once clothed movie character James Bond and have been favoured by former U.S. President Barack Obama and his successor Donald Trump.
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Multiple reports circulated in online blogs and social media in India last week, alluding to alleged conflict of interest in ICICI's lending to Videocon, alleging that the conglomerate was favoured by the bank's CEO.
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The soft-left party was favoured by less than a quarter of voters when her uninspiring boss, Andrew Little, resigned last month, thrusting her into what she described as "the worst job in politics".
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Years, not months, would be needed for Britain's ports to be ready to handle the customs and regulatory checks required under the standard World Trade Organization terms favoured by some Brexit supporters, he said.
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Economists think a simple GST, which would have ensured businesses focus on goods and services that consumers want rather than those favoured by the tax code, might have added two percentage points to GDP growth.
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Where the Samsung Galaxy S9 really takes a leap forward is in bringing some of what has been so appealing about manual-friendly retro camera designs like those favoured by Fujifilm to the mobile realm.
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But the rig market is tighter than it appears because many older rigs have been scrapped, cannibalised for spare parts, or are simply unsuitable for drilling the very long wells now favoured by shale producers.
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The East African nation is favoured by foreign investors mainly due to its diverse, fast-growing economy, but its reputation has long been tainted by widespread graft and weak application of anti-money laundering laws.
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Yet it is fast becoming the star in trendy coffee shops, favoured by baristas as their faux milk of choice thanks to its "mouthfeel", taste and ability to foam and be swirled into "latté art".
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Touted by City bosses as an alternate access route to Europe since the first days after the referendum in 2016, and favoured by Michel Barnier, the EU's Brexit negotiator, equivalence might seem a shoo-in.
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In the regional capital Sambava, a melting pot for farmers, brokers and exporters, the rain-swept streets throb with tuk-tuks jostling with high-end 4x4s, particularly the $50,000 Toyota Land Cruiser favoured by brokers.
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Much of the output being reduced by OPEC is of the heavier crude grades favoured by many Chinese refiners, and it's possible that the efforts of OPEC and its allies have disproportionately fallen on China.
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Underground, Sibanye miners and security workers showed a Reuters reporting team the kind of spot favoured by illegal miners, an area where ore blasted in legal mining operations has been scraped away from the rockface.
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Asked about the Indonesia plans, Huang said JD is replicating the direct-sale model it uses in China, where brands make use of an extensive warehouse network, compared to the marketplace model favoured by Alibaba.
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Some athletes are employing an approach favoured by sports psychologists of compartmentalized thinking: focusing on their training and performance, while leaving outside issues such as the uncertainty about their place at the Olympics, to others.
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Barratini owns the "Michelangelo Cave" – the very rare, palest seam of Carrara marble favoured by the artist himself, who would come here and personally select a block before having it hauled back to his studio.
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First quarter comparable sales at Gucci, which makes over 60 percent of Kering's profit and whose products are favoured by celebrities such as singer Rihanna, rose 48.3 percent, beating analysts' expectations of 21.4 percent growth.
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Its look, in other words, manages to marry the hard-edged, challenging aesthetic favoured by the design cognoscenti, with the more user-friendly feel necessary if the museum is to attract visitors already spoilt for choice.
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The opposition Democrats are favoured by election forecasters to pick up the 23 seats they need to gain a majority in the House, but have slimmer chances of gaining control of the Senate, opinion polls show.
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GAYDON, England (Reuters) - The boss of carmaker Aston Martin warned it was probably too late to roll out the kind of technology needed for the post-Brexit customs plan that is favoured by many British eurosceptics.
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British exports to the EU and other countries which have trade deals with the bloc would face new tariffs and regulatory barriers if Britain reverted to the World Trade Organisation rules favoured by some Brexit supporters.
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Her book also reaffirms a narrative that has long been favoured by the country's gatekeepers—a tight network of Western academics and their humanitarian and defence advisers, as well as their affiliated figures within South Sudan.
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Although the music streaming packages are data-inclusive, the starting package of 1,000 Ugandan shillings ($0.2663) per day is still twice the cost of a typical data subscription product favoured by low-income groups like students.
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"Strong bright colours are favoured by the Queen when choosing clothes, as she is always aware of her duty to be seen," Karen Dolby wrote in her 2019 book, "Queen Elizabeth II&aposs Guide to Life."
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The Saudi index was up 0.2 percent in the first 15 minutes of trade on Tuesday, largely because of second- or third-tier stocks favoured by local retail investors such as Tihama Advertising, up 4.6 percent.
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Yet in tandem with artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko (and later John Romita) he developed a breed of superhero very different to the austerely virtuous and one-dimensional type then favoured by DC and its followers.
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DUBLIN, June 3 (Reuters) - Qatar Airways is in favour of the real-time transmission of aircraft data rather than the ejectable 'black box' data recorders favoured by others in the industry, its chief executive said on Friday.
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Buying of Saudi stocks favoured by foreign funds, in anticipation of a decision by MSCI on June 20 to begin reviewing Riyadh for possible inclusion in its emerging market index, has buoyed the market in recent days.
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The coalition partners will hold a midterm review in the autumn, which could be an opportunity for the SPD to pull out of the alliance - a scenario favoured by members disenchanted with power-sharing with the right.
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Plans to impose limitations on cash payments, as mooted by Mr Schäuble, and abolish the €500 note — a move favoured by some of the ECB's top officials — could further sour the public mood in Europe's largest economy.
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Activity focused on smaller stocks favoured by local retail investors including Alhokair Group, which surged 2668 percent after saying it had signed an agreement with Marriott International to launch a new hotel in the city of Khobar.
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A broad-based fall left the country's longer-dated dollar-bonds that are usually favoured by international investors down almost 2 cents and more than any other African countries' bonds though many had also seen sizable falls.
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"Being a CEO is so unbelievably demanding, you need to be superhuman," Gail, a 31-year-old start-up founder, tells me on a bench in South Park, an elegant San Francisco square favoured by venture capitalists.
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But he is opposed to populist economic proposals, such as Ms Warren's wealth tax (which is favoured by 66% of Democrats, according to YouGov) and the trillion-dollar Green New Deal (which only 4% of Democrats oppose).
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's aerospace and defence industry could face extra costs of 2.3 billion pounds ($3 billion) to comply with the customs arrangement favoured by some Brexit supporters within the cabinet, according to forecasts by trade body ADS.
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Labour's finance chief, John McDonnell, caused a short-lived sensation in seeming to signal a shift in Labour policy to unequivocally backing a second referendum - something favoured by many party members but fought off by the party leadership.
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Macron may not have used his veto, but his dogged determination to block a one-year extension to Britain's divorce talks with the EU, favoured by a majority of European leaders, irritated many in Brussels - and chiefly Germany.
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This procedure, favoured by Chinese buyers, has been increasingly adopted in recent months by Western investors as well due to a shortage of investment opportunities and the urgency to deploy capital by those who recently raised new funds.
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"Lately much of the volumes have been concentrated in stocks favoured by day traders, and until activity starts to pick up in the large-cap names, markets will be trapped in volatile narrow trade," said a Jeddah-based trader.
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Also driving the push for millennials' funds is the explosive growth of Indonesia's online market places, which have opened new financial investments to young people, away from more traditional asset classes, like property, that were favoured by their parents.
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Along the way they show him a good time and gripe about the abuse of power in his heavy sentence: although he only stole $40, he had stolen from a jar promoting a charity favoured by the head officer.
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Investors were also cautious ahead of Friday's all-important non-farm payrolls report from the Labour Department as the ADP's private-sector survey has proven a poor indicator for the government's jobs report, which is favoured by the Fed.
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DUBAI, May 2256 (Reuters) - Most Gulf stock markets edged up in quiet trade early on Wednesday, buoyed by an overnight rise in oil prices and U.S. bourses, but much activity focused on second-tier stocks favoured by local speculators.
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Trump, who last week dropped out of the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership pushed by his predecessor Barack Obama and favoured by Abe, has repeatedly attacked Japan's auto market as closed, in an echo of criticisms heard two decades ago.
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At one station on Hong Kong's mass-transit railway, people wearing the black shirts favoured by protesters were attacked by stick-wielding men in white shirts as they emerged from their train on their way home from the latest protest.
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Economists are aghast: much of the gain from moving to a single tax-rate nationwide came from stamping out the inefficiency of multiple rates, which prod businesses towards providing goods and services favoured by the tax code rather than by consumers.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Businesses will face a cost of up to 20 billion pounds ($27 billion) a year to comply with the customs arrangement favoured by the keenest Brexit supporters within the cabinet, Britain's most senior tax official said on Wednesday.
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The central liaison office, once almost invisible, now owns Hong Kong's largest publisher, provides loans to patriotic businesses, ensures China's choice of chief executive and backs candidates favoured by the Communist Party in elections for the legislature and district councils.
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They also conducted a thematic analysis of the 20 most engaging junk news stories on Facebook during the data collection period to gain a better understanding of the different political narratives favoured by junk news outlets ahead of an election.
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And just because the idea might not work perfectly in practice does not mean it is a worse solution than the nihilistic approach favoured by economists which, after all, is now contributing to a broad backlash against liberalism and globalisation.
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Never one to do anything halfway, he leapt into recording a magnum opus, booked a pricey studio favoured by the likes of Todd Rundgren, and enlisted the best musicians he could find while contributing guitar, flute, and synthesiser parts himself.
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But many Afghan Persian speakers say their language is the same as the one spoken in Iran and Tajikistan and say the name Dari was favoured by past Pashtun leaders as a means of distancing Afghanistan from the Persian cultural sphere.
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As well as calling for a national ban on the "burkini", a modest swimsuit favoured by Muslims, he has proposed the detention or electronic tagging of potentially thousands of people who are on a list of Islamist-inspired security threats.
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DUBAI, May 30 (Reuters) - Most stock markets in the Gulf were slightly higher in early trade on Tuesday with the main focus on stocks favoured by local day-traders, while Qatar's bourse fell ahead of changes by index compiler FTSE.
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MILAN, Dec 5 (Reuters) - A plan to tie up Telecom Italia with smaller broadband rival Open Fiber to create a single fiber network in Italy is "neither favoured by other players nor consistent with competition principles", Open Fiber said on Thursday.
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A vote in October, six months ahead of the natural end of the legislature, is favoured by the ruling Democratic Party and its main opposition rivals, although this is complicated by the need to draw up and approve Italy's 2018 budget.
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KHARTOUM, April 23 (Reuters) - The people of Sudan's Darfur have voted not to reunite the multiple states of its conflict-torn western region into one entity, the option favoured by the central Khartoum government, the Darfur referendum commission said on Saturday.
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LONDON, April 12 (Reuters) - The administrators of L.K. Bennett, a British womenswear retailer favoured by British royal Kate, said on Friday they had completed the sale of most of its UK stores and assets to Byland UK for an undisclosed sum.
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LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Britain's economy will be around 3 percent poorer over the long term if it leaves the European Union and retains a customs union with the bloc, the option favoured by the opposition Labour Party, academic forecasters predicted on Thursday.
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That would certainly be an improvement on the "iron-fist" approach favoured by many Latin American politicians, which involves mass incarceration for long periods in hellish prisons and the application of a de facto death penalty by security forces against young male suspects.
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The Saudi insurance sector also suffered after the government said this week that it would reduce bonuses and perks for public sector workers; insurance stocks are favoured by local retail investors, who will have less disposable income because of the austerity drive.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Big-name hedge funds favoured by pension funds and the ultra-wealthy for their track record of stellar returns took a battering in the first quarter of 2100, with some posting their worst-ever start to a year on record.
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Uchida, who has worked on purchasing for the alliance, is seen as being favoured by Renault and Renault-friendly members of Nissan's board, while Seki is preferred by those from the Nissan side, two of the people familiar with the matter said.
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For much of the year, Labour and its allies were favoured by pollsters to win a clear victory, but support for the government has risen as the economy gradually recovered from a slump in the price of crude oil, Norway's top export.
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Meanwhile, pressure on casino operators to develop non-gaming attractions - favoured by a government keen to diversify Macau's economy - is increasing as authorities start to determine what will happen to the six operating casino licenses once they start to expire in 2020.
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If, however, Labour was set to push through more of the economic policies favoured by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn (pictured above), such as higher corporate taxes, a financial-transaction tax, nationalisation and taxes on executives, then the markets are likely to take alarm.
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DUBAI, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Oil-sensitive shares in the Gulf may get a boost from firmer crude oil on Monday while shares favoured by foreign funds in Dubai and Qatar may come under selling pressure as emerging markets made a shaky start to the week.
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The macroeconomic approach favoured by economists within central banks, regulatory agencies and finance ministries has erred repeatedly in its prognostications over the past decade, predicting that labour markets would heal quickly, for example, while underestimating the risks of targeting a low rate of inflation.
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Even without that, like other left of centre parties around the world, the Democrats will continue to be divided between left-wing, environmentalist forces favoured by younger activists and a more centrist, conservative track – a battle that will likely continue through the decade and beyond.
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DUBAI, June 26 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's stock market fell sharply at the opening on Sunday in response to Britain's decision to leave the European Union, but blue chips held up relatively well and the biggest losses were in smaller speculative stocks favoured by local retail investors.
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His wife brings a succession of bowls to the table: steamed rice, chunks cut from a salted pig's leg that hangs above the stove, lettuce braised with garlic, scraps of beef sautéed with chilies, and tsampa, a roast barley powder favoured by his ethnically Tibetan family.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The Toronto Raptors may not be favoured by many to defend their NBA title after losing star Kawhi Leonard to the Los Angeles Clippers, but head coach Nick Nurse said predictions didn't matter and his team would forge a new path to the championship.
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The structure of dual-class shares, which typically gives one set of shareholders greater voting rights than others, has been favoured by many owners of new age industries such as technology, with the extra voting power given to top executives seen as protection against pressure for short-term returns.
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Rio Tinto, long seen as a one-trick pony reliant on iron ore, is now favoured by investors over BHP, as it is expected to be able to maintain its dividend for at least another year, while BHP is widely expected to cut its payout in February or August.
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After the revelations of Edward Snowden, an American intelligence contractor who has fled to Moscow, many found that hard to believe: "mass surveillance"—to use the Orwellian term favoured by Mr Snowden's supporters—of all data held in America seemed a fundamental breach of Europeans' right to privacy.
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Los Blancos claimed five league titles in the seventies and also won the Copa del Rey on three occasions, while Atletico – formerly favoured by the regime but rapidly positioning themselves as the antithesis of their cross-town rivals – also boasted an imperious side which won two titles and two cup finals.
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The petrochemical sector edged down 220.5 percent, and many gainers were second- or third-tier stocks favoured by local retail investors, such as air conditioner maker and retailer Shaker, which rose 172.93 percent after its board approved a 2172.9 riyal dividend for the first nine months of this year to shareholders registered this Thursday.
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Known for his cheeky streetwear designs that is favoured by male and female K-pop celebs such as ONew from Shinee and Sunny from Girl's Generation, Kang became the designer to watch when he took inspiration from post-war Japanese delinquents and '103s Hong Kong street gangsters last season, to revive embroidered bomber jackets.
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This was partly because Sweden didn't come at Italy as Belgium had – Conte's men had 45.3% of possession in the first game, 49.9% in the second – but also because Sweden, playing a 4-4-2 as opposed to the narrow 4-2-3-1 favoured by Belgium, naturally had two men on each flank.
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The London studios (some owned by other groups including Warner Bros at Leavesden) have been home to many recent film successes, aided by an innate, non-unionised, English-speaking workforce and expertise favoured by international producers, as well as recent GBP depreciation and the UK's long-standing cross-party supported Film Tax Relief for film-producing companies.
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Taschen's lavish monograph emphasises Mr Hewlett's vision and skill as an artist, one who links the British traditions of the great Ronald Searle—whose Nigel Molesworth and St Trinian's girls share his own characters' sense of anarchic mischief—with the boldness of line and colour favoured by American commercial and comic artists of the 20th century.
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One possibility is a crowded peer-to-peer payment market, and the launch of other platforms such as Google Assistant's own Google Pay-linked service, PayPal-owned payment app Venmo, Apple's own iMessage-feature Apple Pay Cash, Facebook's TransferWise-powered Messenger bot, and in-app platform Zelle favoured by the likes of Bank of America, Chase, and CitiBank.
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The London studios (some owned by other groups including Warner Bros at Leavesden) have been home to many recent film successes, aided by an innate, non-unionised, English-speaking workforce and expertise, favoured by international producers, as well as recent GBP depreciation and the UK's long-standing cross-party supported Film Tax Relief for film-producing companies.
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In their case though, Nicolas leans heavily on the jangly, borderline-out-of-tune guitar sound favoured by acts like Gus Dapperton in the US, and Rex Orange County in the UK. Like Clairo, Boy Pablo sonically look backwards – Nicolas got bang into 60s pop on YouTube while starting to write his own stuff – while pushing ahead too.
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London City, an airport favoured by business executives because of its proximity to London's financial districts, was sold to a pension funds consortium in 2016 at a valuation of more than 2 billion pounds ($2.8 billion), more than 30 times core earnings and a threefold increase from the price paid by the owners a decade earlier.
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As Mr Tillerson outlined in his briefing, Congress is now faced with three options: do nothing, re-impose sanctions on Iran even though allies say that would not be justified, or a "third path" favoured by the administration, which is to give INARA "more teeth" to curb missile research and to declare that America's opposition to Iran resuming nuclear weapons work never expires.
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The other view—not favoured by the finance ministry or Bangladesh Bank—holds that physical presence at the SWIFT terminals within Bangladesh Bank was required to issue the transfer orders and that the heist must therefore have been at least partly an inside job: a collaboration of hackers and central-bank employees or other individuals who had access to the central bank's terminals.
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Scottish Tory insiders expect a run-off between a pro-Brexit, pro-Johnson candidate (possibly Jackson Carlaw, Ms Davidson's deputy), who might wrap himself in a union flag and prove popular with party members, and a candidate who argues for more distance and autonomy from the English party, such as Murdo Fraser, who is likely to be favoured by Tory members of the Scottish Parliament.
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Among them were the $100 billion-plus acquisition of British brewer SABMiller by AB InBev and oil major Shell's $70 billion purchase of oil and gas company BG. Small firms such as Robey Warshaw have been snapping up veteran bankers fleeing bureaucracy and shrinking paychecks at the big players and are proving popular among companies that value their niche expertise and independent advice without the the type of cross-selling sometimes favoured by big banks.
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Prime Minister Theresa May has ruled out staying in a customs union with the EU - the option favoured by many employers' groups - and her government is split over two alternatives for a customs arrangement with the EU. Brexit supporters pushing for the most independence from the bloc tend to favour a "maximum facilitation", or "max fac", option in which cameras and a trusted-trader system would be used to reduce delays and costs at the border.
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