Many of the deals pledged at the conference never materialised.
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They found that only 56% of the loans actually materialised.
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A bigger order expected from Saudi Arabia has not materialised.
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Beyond the initial flurry of deals, CEFC's largesse never materialised.
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But blue-collar energy jobs have not materialised in large numbers.
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The growth that the new owner had hoped for never materialised.
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But for years they had promised capacity cuts that never materialised.
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But the road never materialised, and Guatemala declared the treaty void.
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But a major order expected from Saudi Arabia has not materialised.
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But that "bonus" never materialised, further sapping enthusiasm for the project.
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RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR SAYS PRO-INFLATIONARY RISKS HAVE NOT MATERIALISED
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"The expectation of a weaker dollar hasn't really materialised," Vogel said.
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This minor coup materialised thanks largely to the ever-resourceful director.
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That loan never materialised, gradually crippling the 25-year old airline's operations.
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Although it has promised lots of new infrastructure, not much has materialised.
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The talks were never confirmed and nothing ever materialised at the time.
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Once absentee ballots were counted the next day, a third scenario materialised.
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The MAM loan was earmarked for a fishing port which never materialised.
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So far that support has not materialised in the numbers he needs.
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That loan never materialised, gradually crippling the 153-year old airline's operations.
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With similar styles, both players traded groundstrokes waiting for openings that rarely materialised.
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Another one planned for Shanghai itself has not materialised, possibly for political reasons.
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RUSSIA CBANK SAYS -THE VAT INCREASE PASS-THROUGH TO PRICES HAS LARGELY MATERIALISED.
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A major announcement teased by Prince Mohammed ahead of that event never materialised.
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A "genuine European asylum office" enforcing a common migration regime has not materialised.
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More than five hours later a single-page agreement materialised, containing three brief points.
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A reported launch in China earlier this year seems not to have materialised yet.
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The idea seems elegant, but neither a market nor data accounts have materialised yet.
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A planned terrace garden, dividing the residential tower from the shops below, never materialised.
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Vague promises of mass resettlement of refugees from Turkey to Europe have not materialised.
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The basic income is an answer to a problem that has not yet materialised.
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Billions of dollars worth of Chinese investments in the country have also not materialised.
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Indigo, formerly Vinci Park, attempted to buy Empark in 2015, but a deal never materialised.
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But any Arctic promise has drifted away and the expected shipping boom has not materialised.
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She found that little more than half of announced Chinese loans to Africa actually materialised.
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We've worked on both financing and acquisitions deals in parallel, unfortunately none of them materialised.
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There were also rumours that Amazon was considering acquiring the firm, though a deal hasn't materialised.
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According to BuzzFeed, Facebook held serious talks with CEO Alex Zhu but a deal never materialised.
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However, billions of dollars of Saudi investment and military aid that were reportedly promised have not materialised.
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"I think people will recognize that these kind of hyperbolic fears never materialised before 2014," Pai said.
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Fewer jobs were created during the year than had been hoped for; hotels that were promised never materialised.
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However, a previously announced partnership with the U.K.'s Starling Bank never materialised and has since been disbanded.
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Tata Sons was in talks with Jet in November for a deal that never materialised, sources have said.
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Last year the Brookings Institution argued in a report that a large chunk of this has now materialised.
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Andreas Harsono of Human Rights Watch said Henschke's treatment showed pledges to open up Papua had not materialised.
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If it seems like Gymshark materialised in your Instagram feed out of nowhere, that's because it kind of did.
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Hong Kong-listed Wisdom Education International Holdings held a site visit for banks in July, but no loan materialised.
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"The strong worldwide reflationary phase that seemed likely at the beginning of the year has not materialised," Constancio said.
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Analysts said the most dovish outcomes had not materialised and the TLTRO programme was less generous than hoped for.
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DZ Bank had been in talks to sell DVB to Mitsubishi UFJ in 2015, but no deal ever materialised.
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U.S. investment fund Colony Capital had been in talks to buy Feu Vert in September, but a deal never materialised.
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The deeper cross-border integration of economies, banks and capital markets that would alleviate domestic economic difficulties has not materialised.
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The functionality was due to launch the following summer but never materialised (something that seemingly went unnoticed by most outlets).
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Threats by the national government to take control of Kurdish border crossings (and impose its convoluted visa process) never materialised.
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But she and others say that the projects the tribal leaders were promised as alternatives to smuggling have not materialised.
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But visa liberalisation has not materialised yet as the EU wants to put an emergency suspension mechanism in place first.
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Other headwinds materialised when regulatory pressures and corporate events dented stocks in some of the sectors income investors rely on most.
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"The recovery is increasingly uneven, and some previously identified risks have partially materialised," the IMFC communique said, referring to threatened tariffs.
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The company has scope to weather further pressure if it materialised at its current 'BBB-' with FFO adjusted net leverage 3.7x.
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A Tier 2 trade from national champion Intesa only limped over the line and Banco Popolare Societa Cooperativa's mandated deal never materialised.
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She also said "strong and coherent" enforcement is essential — but claimed fears that national watchdogs will become "sanctioning machines have not materialised".
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Mnangagwa replaced longtime leader Robert Mugabe after an army coup in November 2017, but a hoped-for economic turnaround has not materialised.
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Last month then Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said the UAE had promised investments and financial aid to Lebanon but nothing materialised.
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ABB had been in discussions with China's State Grid on the unit in the past, but no deal ever materialised, another source said.
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Antoinette Schoar of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) remarked that a banking shakeup by fintech upstarts, long predicted, has not fully materialised.
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The car tariffs have not yet materialised, since Trump has given the European Union, Japan and other major exporters 180 days to negotiate.
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The shared shrugs and sighs after a train has waited too long at a station for some misery-unleashing fault not to have materialised.
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But its high hopes for the world's largest jetliner have not so far materialised and aircraft market sources say it was looking to diversify.
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In June Monarch announced plans to boost its order to 45 planes, but part of the deal never materialised on Boeing's published order book.
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Just $70bn a year of the $100bn in pledged climate aid to help them tackle the causes and impact of global warming has materialised.
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Hopes of developments in fiscal stimulus plans under U.S. President Donald Trump have also not materialised yet, adding to the drag on the dollar.
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In 2015 DZ Bank had talks with MUFG but no deal materialised as the Japanese group did not want to take on the ship loans.
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While no protests have materialised, inflation has soared to over 20 percent and ordinary people say they are finding it harder to make ends meet.
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That tally would have sky-rocketed further had a multi-billion dollar acquisition loan of around US$15bn for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing materialised.
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The Chinese were also expected to move out of their large building in Marylebone and move to Nine Elms though this has not yet materialised.
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Not just nice words and royal visits (Kate Middleton materialised in The Hague a day after Mrs May), but real attempts to level with Britain's partners.
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Although that meeting, proposed by Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, never materialised, the plan for Francis to visit is the North's latest diplomatic initiative this year.
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The typical increase in funding in the years before the decennial count has not materialised, forcing the agency to cancel two of its three test runs.
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On September 6th Oil and Gas UK, an industry body, said that unless more investment materialised, oil and gas production could fall sharply again after 2019.
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What has materialised is the coworking space in east London, a massive multimillion pound renovation with a massive gym, five floors, and space for catwalk shows.
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Cristiana de Alessi, a portfolio manager at BNP Paribas Asset Management, said most of the risks cited by agencies for the sovereign rating had already materialised.
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Nabiullina also said that daily purchases of dollars for state coffers had a limited impact on the rouble and concerns about higher inflation have not materialised.
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Jacq at BNP Paribas said that until certain pre-conditions such as stronger equity markets materialised, demand for bonds in the euro zone would remain firm.
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Last year, ProSieben tapped its biggest investors looking to raise more than half a billion euros for digital investments, few of which have so far materialised.
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"I've been doing work and analysis on joint sovereign issuance in Europe since 2007 and it has never materialised," said Mizuho's head of rates, Peter Chatwell.
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The delay to the congestion charge had materialised since the company last reported in July, meaning it was unable to predict the hit to its sales.
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Originally the plant was supposed to supply the United States under long-term deals but these never materialised due to the shale gas boom and technical problems.
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"So far, data have suggested that various worst-case scenarios in the aftermath of the referendum have not materialised," wrote BNP Paribas strategists in a research note.
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German sugar refiner Nordzucker and Singapore-based agribusiness firm Wilmar International were among parties that had been initially interested, but nothing has materialised, according to the sources.
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No further rises materialised (as we went to press on June 20193th the MPC was expected to leave interest rates on hold for the tenth month running).
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Privatisations of firms like power utility Hidroelectrica, which were supposed to broaden and deepen the market and help its prospects of an MSCI promotion, have not materialised.
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But one thing that many space enthusiasts in the country have longed for but haven't seen getting materialised is a space station they could call their own.
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Akishev said that with the price of oil, Kazakhstan's main export, at below $30 per barrel, most of the negative expectations regarding the currency had already materialised.
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The Swiss company, whose products are used in new-build and renovation projects, said the downward trend in Britain it expected in recent months had now materialised.
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As a young girl, in Andhra Pradesh, Sujatha Gidla remembers adult members of her educated Christian untouchable family "scrambling to their feet" whenever a Hindu materialised before them.
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch said in a report that if bilateral and multilateral aid pledges materialised on time, Egypt could avoid a sharp currency devaluation this year.
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In the U.K., there have also been rumors that Amazon has considered snapping up real estate from failing brick-and-mortar superstores, although so far nothing has materialised.
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The chamber said in the paper that companies have been "suffering from accumulated 'promise fatigue', having witnessed a litany of assurances over recent years that never quite materialised".
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"Moreover, as no consolidated tape has materialised, ESMA recommends the establishment of a European Union wide real-time consolidated tape for equity instruments," ESMA said in a statement.
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"Moreover, as no consolidated tape has materialised, ESMA recommends the establishment of a European Union wide real-time consolidated tape for equity instruments," ESMA said in a statement.
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They are hampered by the Israeli occupation when they try to build, or run businesses, or move about; 3G telephony on Palestinian networks, despite Israeli promises, has not materialised.
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From the outside, then, it's perhaps easy to see the sound J Hus presents in "Dem Boy Paigon" as one that materialised from some immaculate form of musical conception.
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"Markets have already moved up on expectations of sustainable economic growth and improvement of economic parameters in the last three-four years, but this has not materialised," Ghosh said.
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"Moreover, as no consolidated tape has materialised, ESMA recommends the establishment of a European Union (EU) wide real-time consolidated tape for equity instruments," ESMA said in a statement.
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Harada said he could not say whether or not such risks have materialised now, but the BOJ can combine its monetary policy tools in several different ways if needed.
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"It may be too early to see a roller-coaster ride in cobalt prices as tightness in raw material supply has not yet materialised," Roskill analyst Ying Lu said.
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Fears of a wave of defaulting customers have not materialised: in the owner-occupied and buy-to-let sectors the share of mortgages in arrears is at a historic low.
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TOKYO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Japanese Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Friday the government would not hesitate to take additional action to support the economy if risks to growth materialised.
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Egypt has held stop-start negotiations with the IMF since 2011, but financial support has never materialised largely due to a combination of political constraints and shortfalls regarding fiscal reforms.
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"Support from this phase of the trade deal has already materialised, hence there's some profit taking going on this afternoon," said a senior trader at a foreign bank in Shanghai.
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Some traders had been hoping state-run trading firms could buy refined palm oil for the public distribution system by floating tenders, but this does not seem to have materialised.
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Jefferies has been looking to make hires to its leveraged finance team for some time, holding talks with a team from Barclays earlier this year, although nothing materialised from that.
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A delay in the switch-off of analogue TV switch broadcasts in SSA has meant that the demand for digital TV has not materialised as quickly as we initially expected.
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And today, that new music has materialised in the form of "Czech One," which sees southeast London's most elusive son firmly back on his bullshit (where bullshit translates "singular, genreless genius").
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A promised new constitution which would strengthen the powers of the regions has never materialised, to the irritation of the Tamil National Alliance, a party that supported Mr Sirisena's presidential bid.
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"The strong worldwide reflationary phase that seemed likely at the beginning of the year has not materialised," Constancio said during the bank's week-long quiet period ahead of its rate decision.
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The large number of younger and healthy members that would balance the risk for insurers has not materialised, leaving Aetna and others with a big pool of older and sicker customers.
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Thankfully, a move away from the area never materialised, though Fulham were forced to spend two years lodging with QPR at Loftus Road while improvements were made to their spiritual home.
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Ministers and MPs are miffed, the opposition claims, that the 2m Solomon dollars ($242,000) they were each allegedly supposed to receive two days after the switch to China has not materialised.
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Reuters reported in December that Indian car wiring maker Motherson Sumi was in talks with Leoni over a possible merger, citing people close to the matter, but no deal has materialised.
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Forecasts of hundreds of thousands of UK financial jobs moving to the EU have not materialised, and the Bank of England expects about 4,000 jobs to have moved by March 29.
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This has materialised in cutting prices for coffee and soda, serving breakfast all day, offering mobile ordering and delivery, and improving the quality, if not the nutritional value, of its food.
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The first two haven't materialised and may never do so, while the once-mooted exit from Nafta has turned into a renegotiation aimed at "modernising" the pact with Canada and Mexico.
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New sanctions have not materialised, at least for now, but foreign investors have reduced holdings of Russian bonds, while the government and companies are seeking to limit risks related to sanctions.
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Over the past decade, speculation has circulated among investors and media concerning potential interest from U.S. technology giant Cisco's in a tie-up with Ericsson, although a concrete offer has never materialised.
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Pointing out that for most of his time on the committee the MPC had predicted better productivity growth and a healthier economy than materialised, those positive predictions had not come to fruition.
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Threads materialised (sorry) as a business when founder and CEO Sophie Hill was still working as a buyer for Topshop owner Arcadia, her first job out of university (where she studied sociology).
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A partnership with U.K. challenger bank Starling was also announced last year, but integration with the bank's app never materialised and TechCrunch learned last week that the partnership has now dissolved entirely.
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Whether there were diplomatic reservations about the game or issues regarding logistics and organisation, the friendly between one of Italy's most storied football clubs and a team of Mexican revolutionaries never materialised.
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Hopes were high that China and India would take a big chunk of dirty oil - as at least 2000,227 tonnes began to sail from Europe to Asia - but those have not materialised.
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It was due to add U.K. challenger bank Starling to the list, but the integration with the bank's app never materialised and TechCrunch learned last week that the partnership has now dissolved entirely.
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"Speculated supply disruptions from Indonesia have not materialised yet, whilst the demand side continues to face pressure as margins for stainless steel producers take a hit," ING analysts said, predicting further price falls.
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At Fresenius Medical Care, which has faced a slowdown in North America, its most important market, adjusted sales rose 6 percent to 4.13 billion euros, helped by agreements that materialised earlier than planned.
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Wittmann told the same panel that there would be "a lot of blood" before any such scenario materialised, saying there had been negative consequences from the takeover of German lender HVB by Italy's UniCredit.
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The maritime transactions, or so called tuna bonds, refer to a fleet of sea vessels bought by Mozambique using loans arranged by the international banks for a self sustaining fishing program that never materialised.
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Only a small fraction of the promised 100,000 jobs that the government projected five years ago have ever materialised, and almost all of the work that have been created are low skilled assembly jobs.
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Spain's economic recovery may have peaked and downside risks have materialised, the European Central Bank's vice-president said on Monday, hours after the Spanish government cut its growth forecast for this year and next.
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"If you compare what the BOJ has been saying and what it actually achieved, it's clear what the bank has been saying hasn't materialised," said Kenji Yumoto, chief senior economist at Japan Research Institute.
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A memorandum of understanding (MoU) worth $20 billion with CFLD was meant to be signed in December but has not yet materialised, Hisham Sheta, chairman of Income, a local partner in the project, told Reuters.
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Fitch believes there is potential for JD to improve these razor thin margins as it grows; however, so far this has not materialised despite revenue rising by CAGR of 2852% over the past five years.
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It was disclosed at the shareholders meeting that if a sale of the concessions catering business materialised, Guillemot would get an exceptional compensation package, whose size would hinge on the price fetched by the transaction.
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Credit Suisse, which Reuters reported on Monday is now a target of investigations by U.S. authorities, and VTB provided or arranged loans totalling around $2 billion for the project, but the supposed benefits never materialised.
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The campaign, which has only materialised in the past few days with the help of a team of five people, has signed on more than 40 venues, which will allow people to enrol on the spot.
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A report in 2017 by the London School of Economics, commissioned by London's mayor, found that, on balance, international investment in the city's residential property helped to create housing supply that would otherwise not have materialised.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling slid on Monday after the resignation of the British foreign minister heaped pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May, but its losses were expected to be contained unless a full-blown leadership challenge materialised.
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Indonesia's exports of nickel ore ground to a halt over the course of 2014-2022, although the expected hit on China's NPI sector never materialised because of the rise of the Philippines as an alternative supplier.
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In two previous French tenders, in 22028 and 280, a bumper 270,210 MW of capacity worth 260 billion euros ($2100 billion) was awarded, but the projects have not materialised because of public opposition and contract wrangles.
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However, with a transfer having not materialised the midfielder, who joined United from Juventus in 2016 for a then-world record fee of 89.3 million pounds, could be around Old Trafford for a little while longer.
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"Part of this risk materialised in October 2018 (with) the rise in government bond yields in the United States and many exchanges around the world that recorded steep share price declines and higher volatility," it said.
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Expectations that Aramco customers and allies around the world would take significant stakes in the company have so far not materialised, with the listing looking like it will be reliant on local retail and institutional investors.
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LONDON, May 11 (IFR) - The expected rush of reverse Yankee supply materialised on Wednesday with Johnson & Johnson, Kraft Heinz and General Motors offering investors enticing premiums to sell multi-tranche bond issues against a weaker market backdrop.
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"The bottom line is that the German economy is teetering on the edge of recession," Andrew Kenningham from Capital Economics said, noting that exporters were facing an even bigger potential hit if a no-deal Brexit materialised.
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But these fears have not materialised and market participants are now saying that transparency has suffered due to too many "waivers" from the rules being handed out for instruments that are deemed to be "illiquid", ESMA said.
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While an economic recession predicted in the event of a "Leave" vote in the June 20203 referendum never materialised, partly because very few expected Britain's main trading partner to do so well, the expected slump in sterling did.
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LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Egyptian stocks and bonds jumped on Thursday as a long-awaited currency devaluation materialised, but broader emerging equities fell to seven-week lows, hit by polls showing a close race for the U.S. presidency.
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"Even though the Chinese government's stimulus plan is in place, there has not been much demand materialised," the trader said, adding that some major trading houses reported negative copper cathode consumption growth in the first half of the year.
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"The dollar is weaker, the euro strengthened, and this (suggests) gold will go up," Innes said, adding the negative correlation between the U.S. currency and the yellow metal has materialised again since the dollar's safe-haven appeal has faded.
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SINGAPORE, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Oil prices were firm on Tuesday as the first signs of a crude production cut organised by OPEC and other exporters materialised, tightening a market that has been grappling with ballooning oversupply for over two years.
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Shares in ABB were 3633% higher at 1033 GMT after it said its net profit dropped 15%, beating analyst forecasts as fewer than anticipated one-off charges materialised from selling its Power Grids and other elements of a business overhaul.
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The U.S. futures curve <0#CL:> has inverted so prices for delivery of oil in December 2017 are now above those for delivery a year later, reflecting the wall of producer selling that has materialised since OPEC made its announcement.
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Benayoun said that if a deal with Eni materialised, EDF - which owns 99.48 percent of Edison - would be ready to sell a 20-35 percent stake in Edison to a long-term Italian investor in order to help finance the operation.
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"It is obvious that the investment cannot be materialised as long as continuous setbacks and new obstacles lead to amendments in the development plan in various ways that are not provisioned in the contract," Lamda said in a stock exchange filing.
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Yet the more alarmist worries about China—that it is planning to build naval bases in a "string of pearls" stretching from China to the Red Sea and as far as Namibia's Walvis Bay on the Atlantic coast—have not materialised.
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Bake told the S&P Global Platts Crude Oil Summit that while oil inventories were shifting, with cargoes moving from the Atlantic Basin into Asia, the overall drawdown that many hoped for amid OPEC-led production cuts had not yet materialised.
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The Fed's failure to hit its inflation target has encouraged an assault by President Donald Trump, who is incensed that in 2018 Mr Powell slowed growth by raising interest rates to see off an inflationary threat that has not yet materialised.
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"Unanticipated changes in monetary policy and reversal of policy actions by the ECB (European Central Bank) and the U.S. Fed materialised throughout 2019 which may have driven increased trading activity in the sovereign markets throughout the year," the report said.
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Guindos also said that the slowdown in the euro area had bottomed out amid signs of stabilisation in the bloc's economy as the scenario of a disorderly Brexit or a trade war between China and the U.S. had not materialised.
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"There were a lot of predictions that if the election went the way of Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump then there would be great deal of volatility, but that has not materialised so far," Bullard said at a UBS conference in London.
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Had China's government not flooded its economy with stimulus, or had America not supported global production by running vast trade deficits, then the boost to demand needed to put Europeans back to work, and get them spending again, might never have materialised.
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It soared last week when the Qatar Central Securities Depository raised the maximum foreign ownership percentage for its shares to 49 percent of capital, but pulled back this week as no rapid, major increase in actual foreign ownership, now at 25.6 percent, materialised.
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But it also comes after a relatively cool period for fintech funding, where the very biggest acquisitions — such as Alibaba yesterday reupping its stake in Ant Financial by 33 percentage points — have been closures of deals that actually first materialised a year ago.
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Since the Methyl Ethel project first materialised with Oh Inhuman Spectacle back in 2015, Webb's performance has leaned more towards the cerebral than the physical; even a dancier cut, like last year's surprise hit "Ubu," features an almost aggressive stillness in its music video.
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The company's longer-term goals extended into the area of IoT and how "dumb" machines could be made smarter by attaching sensors to them to monitor vibrations and sounds to determine how they were working — concepts that never materialised at Trackr but have found a new life at Shine.
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For instance, Nam Theun 2 Power, under the control of Electricite de France, Thailand's Electricity Generating Company (Egco) and Lao Holding State Enterprise, had twice explored selling bonds - once in 2014, via an Asian Development Bank project bond scheme and again in 2016, via the baht bond market - but nothing materialised.
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That, of course, never quite materialised as a big business, as apps did indeed continue to boom, and responsive web design meant that it was much easier to build once for the web and have it simply work on mobile, rather than invest in a separate mobile-web-only build.
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"While the short-term risks to demand since the Brexit vote have not materialised in a serious way, the UK economy should be faring much better today on the back of the ongoing global upswing," said Kallum Pickering, senior UK economist at Berenberg in London, who expects a rate increase in November.
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No such moment materialised in this debate—neither for Ms Harris, the only other heavyweight to share the stage with him (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg had all participated in another debate the previous night), nor for any of the eight other candidates, who barely register two percentage points apiece.
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At the end of the book, they suggest that the logical extension of their property tax would be to apply it to human capital—ie, to require citizens to declare a wage at which they would work, tax them on the basis of that number, and force them to accept any job offers that materialised.
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One giant step towards the sport's legitimacy in Scandinavia materialised last week as it was confirmed the Danish government fully recognised MMA as a sport, which will now be regulated by the country's administration as such, thanks to the tireless work from the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) and their representative the Danish Mixed Martial Arts Association (DMMAF).
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While a new "grand coalition" of CDU and SPD seems probable, Mr Altmaier's links to the Greens would suddenly flower if the numbers for a CDU-Green-FDP government materialised (in any case, the Greens are in nine of Germany's 16 state governments.) Winning a fourth term as chancellor would put Mrs Merkel in the danger zone: her two predecessors to achieve this—Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl—collapsed soon afterwards.
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