For the past ten years television viewers in the US, UK and Australia have been avid consumers of home improvement shows. The trend was reflected in the growing value of properties in these markets and the expectations that dabbling with Ikea furniture and learning about ‘spaces’ and ‘color’ would somehow even further enable bigger...
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The Bank of England raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 5 percent this afternoon. The move was not unexpected as despite recent decrease in oil prices the CPI only eased marginally from 2.5 percent in August to 2.4 percent in September. Worries remained that the broader Retail Price Index (RPI) increased from...
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