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El precio de los pisos más caros alcanza 390.000 euros. Se comercializarán en el portal www.SarebCasasDeEstreno.es. Leer

Una mayor concentración no limitará los niveles de competencia actuales. Leer

El grupo español podría terminar planteando una demanda de arbitraje contra el Gobierno de Colombia ante el Ciadi. Leer

THE Monaco Yacht Show, which ran from September 28th to October 1st, is arguably the world’s most extravagant game of one-upmanship. This year more visitors than ever—34,500—came to gawp at 125 superyachts with a collective value of $2.7 billion, tied up in the principality’s Port Hercules. But the yachts were only the beginning. Monaco is essentially a bazaar for the 0.1%: everywhere you look there are hawkers in pop-up tents trying to sell things that you never knew you needed. There were submersibles that can take six people to the bottom of the ocean; armour-plated Land Rovers; jet-skis and 3D goggles; military-style helicopters and flying boats. Among the variety of servants for hire were armed guards and on-board DJs.

In this world, size counts for a lot. The bit of the yacht industry that has recovered most strongly since the financial crisis is the “monster yacht” segment. The Superyacht Intelligence Agency says 62 yachts of 70 metres plus were delivered in 2011-16. Another 59 are under construction, despite the fact that some of the usual big spenders have pulled in their horns a bit. The decline in the oil price has hit both…Continue reading

FIRMS must list foreign workers, blares the headline of London’s Times newspaper today after a speech from the Conservative government’s new home secretary, Amber Rudd. The idea, it seems, is not to list each and every individual but for companies  to list the total number of their foreign employees so that they can be “named and shamed”. 

Conservative Home Secretaries have a tradition of throwing red meat to delegates so it may be that this policy never goes any further. On the BBC’s Today programme this morning, Ms Rudd was emphasising that the policy was only “for consultation”, and if she consults business, she’ll probably get a pretty rude answer. Which business would want to be named and shamed at the top of the list, with all the potential for adverse publicity, demonstrations etc? It’s all a bit reminiscent of the first world war, when shops with German-sounding names had their windows broken and the Royal family changed its name from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.  

But this was not the only bad idea to come out of the current Conservative conference. First, there was the idea of Continue reading

BACK in Syria food was cheap, remembers Maya, as she sits cross-legged in the small flat she shares with her husband, their five children and another couple in Amman, Jordan’s capital. When she first arrived here, she had to cut back. But now, with her husband working and 20 dinars ($28) a month from the World Food Programme (WFP), a UN agency, she can buy the children a treat like fish or chicken.

Scattered across Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan are 4.4m registered Syrian refugees, 90% of whom, like Maya, live outside formal refugee camps. This makes it a logistical nightmare to get the traditional food aid to them—sacks of rice and pulses. The WFP, the world’s largest food-aid provider, has adapted: a decade ago, it doled out aid only in kind. Now just over a quarter of its aid globally is cash-based. Every month Maya gets a text message alerting her that her special debit card, which she can use only to buy food, has been topped up. The WFP reaches around 1.1m refugees like this in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey.

This week saw the launch in neighbouring Turkey of the largest-ever humanitarian-aid project financed by the EU: a whopping €348m…Continue reading

Los mercados anticipan una recuperación a un año vista. El peligro es, si alimentados por los bancos centrales, no se han excedido. Leer