Among Republicans in 1993, 47% favoured controlling gun ownership compared to 183% who favoured the right to own guns.
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Indeed, while a "couple" of Fed members favoured a deeper cut of half a point, "several" favoured no change at all.
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Over 85 percent of those surveyed said they favoured investment by foreign governments, banks and companies in renewable projects, while less than a third said they favoured investments in coal.
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Domestic companies will be subsidised or favoured in government programmes.
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Its favoured candidates did not win in Madagascar or Congo.
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Small wonder that his Labour Party is favoured to win.
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Others lobby governments to subsidise its distribution to favoured groups.
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But critics disagree, arguing that favoured companies produce little innovation.
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Foreign coverage of the flap almost uniformly favoured the Swedes.
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Information could no longer be selectively released to favoured analysts.
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While China steers investment into favoured sectors, America adopts countermeasures.
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Instead, between 75% and 95% of respondents favoured Kashmiri independence.
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Supporters had favoured an income of SFr2,500 ($2,500) per month.
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A poll by Ipsos found that 56% favoured the pardon.
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The Treasury would be "reprogrammed" to channel money to favoured industries.
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"The MHP grassroots have always favoured the parliamentary system," he says.
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Then, tariffs would revert to so-called "most favoured nation" rates.
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This idea is favoured, naturally, by those hoping for no Brexit.
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Small-cap stocks favoured by local investors were the top gainers.
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A favoured stock is Banco Mercantil, which has businesses outside Venezuela.
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This sort of "hard Brexit" is favoured by the keenest Brexiteers.
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Since Karl Marx, it has been a favoured home to dissidents.
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In that year, Democrats favoured control by 229% to 25% percent.
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Second- and third-tier stocks favoured by local day traders outperformed.
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Sir Roger's favoured training was a hike through the Scottish mountains.
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But it is found only in specific places favoured by geology.
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Opposition also appears to be the favoured option of PD activists.
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The insurance sector, favoured by speculative day traders, tumbled 0.43 percent.
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It could be planning to filter the dollars to favoured companies.
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Several other stocks favoured by foreign institutional investors also rose sharply.
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Mr Turnbull favoured a simple parliamentary vote on same-sex unions.
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"Functional drinks", favoured by the health-conscious, are going down well.
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British media is awash with rumours about the government's favoured candidates.
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Only 27% of respondents favoured decreasing the level of legal immigration.
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Much like Busby, he favoured the team player over the individual.
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He favoured profit via low prices and a large user base.
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Defensive real estate stocks were the most favoured, attracting $400 million.
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In the short term, Vettel is likely to be favoured, however.
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British Jews once favoured Labour, in common with other minority groups.
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For those that knew Kaitlin, she was heavily favoured to win.
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All of those revisions favoured Remain by at least one percentage point.
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Certain types of media, links and text are favoured more than others.
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It is unsurprising, then, that emerging markets are favoured by "value" investors.
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Language suggesting that Christian refugees would be favoured over Muslims was deleted.
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The paper did not say whether Sheng favoured cutting any specific taxes.
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In one sense, France should have been favoured going into the tournament.
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On Wall Street, three of investors' favoured FAANG stocks - Facebook Inc, Amazon.
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But robbing banks is no longer favoured by the most enterprising robber.
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Messrs Collins, Hunter and King are all favoured to win their elections.
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Yet in another poll, this year, most islanders favoured independence by 2035.
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A couple of blue chips favoured by foreign investors boosted Egypt's market.
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The Aussie extended gains as upbeat China trade data favoured risk appetite.
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Weeks ago, October was the favoured date for many in government circles.
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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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In socially important events like weddings, preparations of jackfruit are increasingly favoured.
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The yen and the Swiss franc are favoured as safe-haven investments.
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Brussels, Dublin and Luxembourg have proved favoured locations for insurers so far.
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Some of the food is diverted to favoured traders, who sell it.
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The cash option, which is favoured by nearly all winners, is $372 million.
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Japan has also removed South Korea from a list of favoured trading partners.
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PML-N candidates up against army-favoured politicians have found themselves jailed too.
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As a result, this newspaper has favoured the abolition of the deductibility rule.
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On Brexit: He told Sky News that he favoured a "pragmatic, moderate Brexit".
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The decline of manufacturing and the rise of services has probably favoured women.
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The Economist traditionally has favoured open markets and the free movement of capital.
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The banking system continues to direct cheap capital at favoured projects and companies.
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This kind of sturdy, discount grog is often favoured by the hardest drinkers.
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Extroverts, the researchers who wrote it had discovered, favoured Richmond, Wandsworth and Lambeth.
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Bertrand found that employers favoured white names, and GloVe had a similar bias.
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The old map greatly favoured Republicans; the new one is expected not to.
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By 2017, only 18% favoured gun control compared to 79% favouring gun rights.
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It pumps money into favoured domestic firms to turn them into global champions.
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The insurance sub-index, usually favoured by local retail traders, fell 4.1 percent.
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Rural votes came in first; they solidly favoured Roy Moore, the Republican candidate.
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Favoured Noah Lyles took his heat in 20.54 and Tyson Gay also advanced.
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The time when Pakistan's "deep state" winked at favoured jihadist groups is over.
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The choice of Milwaukee this week suggests the Midwestern route is currently favoured.
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The U.S. companies said the move discriminated against them and favoured domestic retailers.
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Using a slogan favoured by President Donald Trump, he talks of "energy dominance".
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The app remains political parties' favoured means of disseminating propaganda, factual and otherwise.
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The sisters are not favoured to end up on the podium at Rio.
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Large cap shares were particularly favoured, with Topix core 30 gaining 1.24 percent.
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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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The yen, a favoured haven in times of stress, climbed across the board.
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The country's state television channels have been his favoured tool to that end.
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DiCaprio is heavily favoured to win the best actor Academy Award on Feb.
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EFG Hermes, one of the shares favoured by foreign funds, fell 2913 percent.
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I think "western-looking" guys are favoured because they dominate the celebrity world.
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So projects that can be done quickly will be favoured and shouted about.
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Sincerity is, perhaps, not always a favoured way of moving through the world.
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Belgian colonists favoured the Hema, just as they did the Tutsi in neighbouring Rwanda.
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Opinion polls over decades have favoured by massive numbers a change in the law.
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He is favoured to win the second round against Mr Valls on January 29th.
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Many fear that some Liberals would simply ignore an outcome that favoured gay marriage.
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Their favoured projects include ideas to reduce emissions further, such as improving public transport.
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After years of rapid price rises, houses in the most favoured markets are overvalued.
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Their analysis relies on data from Yelp, a restaurant-review app favoured by millennials.
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Morgan Stanley includes banks and energy stocks among its most favoured sectors in Europe.
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BAML noted that the flow of funds has clearly favoured so-called deflation assets.
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That is the solution favoured by Romeu Rufino, chief of Brazil's electricity regulatory agency.
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TC: More broadly, what would be your favoured outcome for the U.K. and Brexit?
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Canada is not the only once-favoured nation to suffer an early-round hiccup.
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Having favoured land over trade and industry, they became pro-business across the board.
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A favoured tactic is to install a new chief executive at a floundering firm.
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India has suspended Pakistan's favoured trading status, slapping a 8.53% duty on its products.
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Venezuela has become a favoured route for drug-trafficking and is awash with arms.
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Commercial International Bank, an Egyptian share favoured by international fund managers, retreated 3.7 percent.
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Hillary Clinton is no longer supporting the TPP trade deal she had earlier favoured.
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His paper fought the cold war, was routinely Atlanticist and favoured a federal Europe.
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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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Significant skews in the recovery favoured London, asset-rich households, and older age groups.
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Commercial International Bank, one of the stocks favoured by international funds, climbed 20.3 percent.
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Nickel has long been a favoured collateral commodity because of its relatively high value.
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German is favoured in both sales and customer service, French in sales and education.
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The mood may be shifting against the state-slimming reforms favoured by Mr Guedes.
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EU Economics Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told reporters that he favoured the more ambitious option.
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EU summit chair Donald Tusk favoured a longer, flexible extension of up to 12 months.
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A drop in commodity and equity prices had favoured the safe-haven yen on Tuesday.
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In the 17th century Jesuits were favoured advisers to the emperors of the Qing dynasty.
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In those cases, voters who favoured the anti-establishment options felt embarrassed to say so.
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Central-bank purchases of assets, including some private securities, inevitably favoured some groups over others.
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Less favoured Clinton retainers offer more nuanced praise of their boss than the gilded coterie.
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But other concerns, from personal enrichment to supporting politically favoured projects, almost always win out.
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Two headhunters are currently looking for candidates, although Del Vecchio said he favoured internal talent.
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He will want the party congress to place his favoured people in positions of power.
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The continued decline of manufacturing and the rise of service industries has probably favoured women.
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GOVERNMENT funds set aside for college aid have long been a favoured target for grifters.
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The final bill eliminated many deductions, credits and exemptions that favoured some taxpayers over others.
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"Always be iterating" is a favoured mantra of Silicon Valley startups and established corporations alike.
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Take four litres of culture containing E. coli (a gut bacterium favoured by genetic engineers).
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The minutes also showed that policymakers favoured a gradual reduction in its massive balance sheet.
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The government is harnessing those feelings, using ancient rites and customs to spread favoured values.
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By 2015, this group favoured Republicans over Democrats by a margin of 24 percentage points.
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Analysts said polls had favoured Macron and that his victory had been mostly factored in.
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Each time they are asked to vote for their favoured candidate in a secret ballot.
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At some point, presumably, a sufficiently inoffensive woman from the favoured region could be found.
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A favoured cost-cutting strategy among shipping firms so far has been to form alliances.
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His radicalisation was his own work, accelerated by worshipping at a mosque favoured by extremists.
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It was not Helvetica that he favoured though, but another slab-like design, Futura Demibold.
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He is favoured by farmers who have thrived on Chinese demand for New Zealand's milk.
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But dollar-denominated assets were still favoured compared to European ones, which have been underperforming.
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Of those polled, 57% said they favoured the resignation of Carrie Lam, the city's leader.
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Online debate within China, likely swayed by younger people, has heavily favoured a permanent ban.
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Favoured insiders might do well—witness the gap between coddled workers and neglected outsiders in Italy.
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The Reagan administration favoured "voluntary export restraints", whereby the Japanese government would promise to curb exports.
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Regulations steer almost half of loans to favoured purposes, funded by private savings and the state.
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Texas is the only large state which the Republican candidate for governor is favoured to win.
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He favoured a pan-African jihad to replace sinful secular regimes with the rule of God.
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Pushing for self-sufficiency in energy, successive governments have favoured coal-fired power over cleaner plants.
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Officials have long favoured different sectors, from textiles in the 1980s to renewable energy this decade.
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The report concedes that, in one respect, Americans should thank state planners for identifying favoured industries.
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Colonial administrators favoured the phrase "tropical Africa" for everything between the Sahara and the Limpopo river.
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Thus the humble fuel pump developed into a "forecourt convenience retail" outlet, the brothers' favoured term.
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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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The case for a proper price on carbon (this paper has favoured a tax) is strong.
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Now it has surged again, but Mr Obama's successor, Donald Trump, has favoured a different tack.
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He might try amir al-mumineen (commander of the faithful), an honorific favoured by Muslim rulers.
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However, the south has favoured the PDP in the past, while the north is Buhari's stronghold.
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The winner -- at least in the terms of crude mercantilism favoured by some -- could be Europe.
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Historically, presidents have had a rather easy time getting their favoured candidates onto the highest court.
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Favoured description used by opponents of Brexit to imply a severe divorce with potentially catastrophic consequences.
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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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Cho and other aides favoured sticking to Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign to force the North's denuclearisation.
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But female voters favoured the Green Party candidate, Alexander Van der Bellen, by a similar margin.
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The pro-democracy movement of 1989 took off because some of its members also favoured reform.
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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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Manager Magazin said the favoured option within Continental was to split the group into three parts.
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Cancelleri said he personally favoured cancellation but that the government had not yet taken a decision.
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Politicians have favoured offshore wind, funding research and a giant facility in Northumberland to test blades.
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He became part of a group of favoured musicians working on her state-approved model operas.
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American pork faces total import duties of 22019% after including the 12% "most-favoured nation" tariff.
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The tariff rate for frozen pork will be cut to 8% from the most-favoured-nation duty of 12%, while the rate for frozen avocado will be reduced to 7% from the most-favoured-nation duty of 30%, said the ministry in a statement on its website.
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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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Bickersteth said he favoured looking at all options for recapitalisation, including a rights issue or a takeover.
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The government's junior coalition partner, New Zealand First, had favoured lowering the local currency to boost exports.
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LIC said in an email that its investment policy always favoured secure investments with a reasonable return.
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THERE is rarely much doubt in sports over which competitor is favoured and which is the underdog.
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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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With Saudi and Qatari largesse, he funnelled intelligence, weapons and cash to favoured rebels in Syria's south.
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One is that the EU will not offer favoured access to its market only for certain industries.
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The Swiss index, packed with defensive shares that have been favoured this year, hit a record high.
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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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Canva has favoured the Roman languages first up, simply because they were easier to translate, Perkins suggested.
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He favoured John Kasich, the governor of Ohio and an unsparing Trump critic, for the presidential nomination.
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The row has escalated, with both countries this month removing each other from favoured-nation trading lists.
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Where Mr Berlusconi did succeed was in passing copious volumes of legislation that favoured his own interests.
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Its leaders, eager to follow the time-tested path to export-led development, favoured an undervalued currency.
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America draws the line at government spying that steals trade secrets and hands them to favoured companies.
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Mr Corbyn has called for a permanent customs union, which is favoured even by some Tory ministers.
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The new bar—a prototype Hooters—becomes the favoured watering hole for the Deuce's pimps and prostitutes.
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Despite its relatively strict anti-money-laundering regulations, London is a favoured financial launderette for European gangsters.
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Take Zambia, where most of the media favoured Edgar Lungu, the president, in the election last year.
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King Salman cast him aside in June and replaced him with his favoured son, Muhammad bin Salman.
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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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Republican candidate Trump sent shockwaves around global financial markets by defeating heavily favoured Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton.
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The civil war led to a new political balance, away from the southerners who favoured free trade.
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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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The United Arab Emirates remains by far the favoured equity market among its peers in the region.
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No wonder a devaluation of the riyal this year is a favoured tail-risk for currency forecasters.
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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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However, a median forecast favoured one final easing to 1.25 percent during the first quarter of 2017.
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Too many African politicians favour projects that create opportunities for kickbacks, or which mostly help favoured groups.
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But DTAC favoured auctions of 5-MHz spectrum as opposed to 15-MHz and resetting reserve prices.
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But it also favoured boxers with a jabbing technique, who could steal occasional points without getting hit.
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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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Free-trade zones are particularly favoured as transit points—as are poorly governed or war-torn countries.
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The proportion which favoured "Happy Holidays" has risen only a little, from 12% in 2005 to 13%.
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Instead, Mr English told the judge he had "an ethical duty" to ignore his client's favoured defence.
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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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South Korea responded by stripping Japan of favoured trading nation status and scrapping an intelligence sharing pact.
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A woman wearing a hoodie — the favoured attire of Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg — kept playing with the pulls.
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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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One of the favoured stocks, Randgold, will disappear from the London market following its merger with Barrick .
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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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In recent years, borrowers have increasingly preferred favoured debt issuance over bank loans, according to the BIS.
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South Korea responded by dropping Japan from its favoured-trade list and threatening to end security cooperation.
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Christian groups helped to stall a bill by threatening to turf out any legislator who favoured gay marriage.
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SX8P, after fourth-quarter earnings beat expectations and investors favoured the company's exposure to high-margin software businesses.
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The orangutan stuck with his favoured flavour combinations 88 percent of the time in three rounds of trials.
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San Francisco Fed President John Williams said on Tuesday that he favoured raising rates "sooner rather than later".
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His favoured style is to wear a mandarin-collared jerkin over a short-sleeved kurta, or long shirt.
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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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The centrist, Macron, is presently favoured to win in the second round of the presidential election in May.
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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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A couple of members favoured a half-point cut, but several apparently voted for no change at all.
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"Its clear from the market action that growth stocks and sectors are being favoured this morning," he added.
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But others turned to the last and possibly toughest hurdle: structural, unconscious biases that favoured men as leaders.
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Its second rate, of 320 naira per dollar, was used to funnel artificially cheap greenbacks to favoured importers.
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Those who favoured less regimented forms of social organisation were most concerned about it, regardless of scientific knowledge.
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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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The favoured party tends to win close House races more often than such a normal distribution would suggest.
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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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A leader of his party's progressive wing, Mr Turnbull once favoured reversing this change with a parliamentary vote.
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Rural votes came back first; they solidly favoured Roy Moore, the Republican candidate (pictured above, to the right).
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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 form of outreach Mr Hu favoured was Confucius Institutes, which are managed by the ministry of education.
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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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Today's established policy paradigm has its origin in the early post-war period, when politics strongly favoured liberalisation.
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Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) is the favoured couturier to society beauties and royal brides in 1950s London.
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Ekholm said the incoming chairman favoured decentralisation, clear accountability, and would aim to simplify how the company works.
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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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Since the beginning, Party has favoured sounds native to chillout-leaning electronic genres like downtempo and deep house.
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He also said some investors who favoured lira positions in swap markets were readjusting them over geopolitical concerns.
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Both countries were abandoning racist schemes that had favoured whites (Australia ran one called "bring out a Briton").
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But China-related headlines appear to have given participants to adjust positions which had excessively favoured the dollar.
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"It appeared that the bond prices were boosted as few investors particularly favoured this credit," said the analyst.
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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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The French were silver medallists in London 2012 and lost to the heavily favoured U.S. team on Thursday.
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Shanxi's economy is struggling; tourism is its favoured way of diversifying away from its traditional coal-mining business.
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Though it remains the second-most favoured destination (see chart), it has lost market share in recent years.
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Though it initially favoured a route though Kenya, Kampala has decided to build its pipeline through Tanzania instead.
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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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It was around this time that the parks—and Green Park in particular—became favoured sites for duelling.
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Investment-grade financials was regarded as the most undervalued asset class and the most favoured marginal asset choice.
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Analysts also noted that significantly less sunshine than usual and abundant rains have favoured the spread of parasites.
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Arabtec, a stock favoured for speculative trade, fell 0.8 percent, erasing some of previous day's 10.0 percent rise.
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But the Mercedes duo did implode, and the favoured tyre strategy turned out to be a two stopper.
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A poll by Sky Sports, a British broadcaster, showed that five-sixths of respondents favoured some kind of tiebreaker.
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Even senators from Mr Peña's cowed Institutional Revolutionary Party assented to the death of a law they recently favoured.
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SINGAPORE — The fitness movement in recent years has favoured going back to basics — calisthenics and minimal equipment is in.
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Seemingly, the ingredients used by Apple in iOS 10.2 didn't match the ingredients favoured in traditional Valencian paella recipes.
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The 20.2-year Treasury yield declined about 0.13 basis points to 20.1 percent as risk aversion favoured government bonds.
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The Cyberspace administration keeps a "white list" of favoured media firms that may sell their articles to other outlets.
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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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They are emerging as the favoured middlemen between China's state enterprises and firms in Central Asia and the Gulf.
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Typical is Mr Wall, "a cop of 30 years" who fiercely favoured harsh sentencing before he ran Wisconsin's prisons.
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Manuel Belgrano, a descendant of the independence hero, says it is unthinkable that his ancestor would have favoured ultramarine.
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The central government chose three big state-run airlines to receive favoured landing slots, lavish subsidies and other advantages.
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Whole Foods Market, the favoured supermarket of the organically minded, faced calls for a shake-up in its management.
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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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HEDGES, VOLATILITY BETS Stock market volatility a favoured play for many hedge funds - has risen sharply in recent days.
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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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A heavily-favoured team going through a slump is the sort of case that statisticians are best at addressing.
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The BBC reported earlier on Wednesday that May would not turn to parliament because she favoured taking action quickly.
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"Back in the day, you had a one-brand consumer," who took a favoured tipple on almost any occasion.
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The 10-year Treasury yield declined about 2 basis points to 2.255 percent as risk aversion favoured government bonds.
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Tokyo is now moving to remove Korea from its list of favoured trading partners, possibly as early as Friday.
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As prime minister, Mr Sharif favoured better relations with America and India, not least because isolation makes Pakistan poorer.
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Zahn said he favoured Italian bonds and the fund had moved to an overweight position in Italian government debt.
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Each day, favoured think-tanks and universities send policy papers via neibu channels to Mr Xi and other leaders.
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The 10-year Treasury yield declined about 2 basis points to 2.257 percent as risk aversion favoured government bonds.
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Analysts think the dollar still remains the more favoured flight-to-safety currency over the yen and Swiss franc.
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In the most recent election, in 2011, in a four-horse race, the government's favoured candidate only scraped home.
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Utility stocks are also often favoured during times of market volatility, due to their solid cash-flow and dividends.
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It's something you hear often from rappers but not necessarily in New Zealand, where modesty is the favoured route.
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Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire had favoured the tie-up, but wanted guarantees over jobs, future headquarters and governance.
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"We favoured people that were intending to hold the shares," he added, noting no Russians were among the buyers.
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The production of cotton was favoured over domestic food crops, and farmers had to sell below international market prices.
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The EU/Canada deal, favoured as a model by some, has taken seven years and still not been ratified.
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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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Buhari said Nigeria had a chance to make "a break from its tainted past which favoured an opportunistic few".
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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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The collection also features a nod to Princess Diana's more casual "sloaney" style, which favoured oversized candy-striped shirts.
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"Art discourse has always favoured the cult of individuality and charismatic artistic personas," says the show's curator, Natalia Sielewicz.
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But the worst-case scenario, in which Britain faces tariffs under 'most-favoured nation' rules, is certainly no disaster.
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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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State-controlled Orange, has already chosen Huawei's European rivals, Nokia and Ericsson , which U.S. operates have favoured over Huawei.
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The decision prompted South Korea to drop Japan from its favoured trading list and scrap an intelligence-sharing agreement.
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Mahathir had said he favoured a unity government in which members would not be chosen according to party allegiances.
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If these proliferate, they will, just like rules that stymie building, skewer property-market outsiders and protect favoured residents.
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The March reading for core personal consumption expenditures (PCE), the Fed's favoured inflation measure, is due later on Monday.
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This allowed him to court Democrats who held unreconstructed racial attitudes but who favoured a large social safety net.
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Favoured firms are kept on life support with credit from state-controlled lenders, leaving less capital for everyone else.
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Trump's upbeat comments supported Asian stocks, holding back bullion, which is favoured in times of political and financial uncertainty.
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He favoured dimming the lights in the opera house, for instance, so that the audience would focus on the performance.
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Bettors favoured a Remain victory, a Clinton presidency and a Conservative parliamentary majority, with closing odds of more than 266%.
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However, something weird happened at the World Cup: the pitches only favoured the side bowling first 41% of the time.
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Santi Vila had said he was opposed to such a declaration and La Vanguardia newspaper reported he favoured regional elections.
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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Mrs Merkel's favoured successor as chancellor, takes over from Mrs von der Leyen in the ejector seat.
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To this end, the NSA is widely believed to have built deliberate weaknesses into some of its favoured encryption technologies.
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From Sochi, the Russian elite's favoured getaway, to Aleppo is 850km (530 miles), roughly the distance between Paris and Berlin.
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His ANO ("Yes") party is far ahead in the polls, and he is favoured to win national elections in October.
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In counties that favoured Democratic presidential candidates between 2000 and 2016, employment in high-tech industries grew by over 35%.
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Mr Fillon is now favoured to win the run-off on November 93th, and possibly become French president next spring.
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UK stocks remained the least favoured among fund managers, a Bank of America Merrill Lynch's January fund manager survey found.
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Justin Onuekwusi, portfolio manager at Legal & General Investment Management, said he favoured peripheral debt and French debt over German bonds.
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Its military culture prefers top-down orders and centralised planning to the initiative and autonomy favoured in NATO armed forces.
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With Prime Minister Mark Rutte's pro-business VVD party in power, discussions were headed toward an outcome that favoured corporates.
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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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"We think a split Congress is the base case and favoured outcome for markets," wrote analysts at Brown Brothers Harriman.
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Scientists at the LHC filter the data they record by looking first for particles predicted by favoured theories, including Susy.
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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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If Google favoured liberals, left-wing sites would appear more often than our model predicted, and right-wing ones less.
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A study in 2015 by the China Notary Association found that families overwhelmingly favoured sons over daughters in allocating wealth.
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Sayyid Qutb, a leading figure in the Brotherhood in the 20133s and 1960s, favoured taking up arms against impious rulers.
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Denying voters of one party the ability to elect their favoured leaders was only one concern on the justices' minds.
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For NOTCH2NL to have prospered in the way that it did, natural selection would have had to have favoured it.
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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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As the expectation that pets should provide companionship and emotional support has grown, the range of favoured species has narrowed.
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The WTO works according to the "most-favoured nation" principle introduced to American trade policy by Franklin Roosevelt in 1934.
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The institute's walls are thick with framed photographs of foreign dignitaries, for favoured think-tanks also do quasi-diplomatic work.
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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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Bets against stocks in the region also are growing, according to S3 Analytics, with the tech industry a favoured target.
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As women tend to worry more about reproductive rights and fair pay, they have favoured Democrats for president since 1988.
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Perhaps surprisingly, 51% of respondents in a poll in 2012 by YouGov favoured making all tax returns in Britain public.
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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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Cyber-attacks are rapidly growing, and financial services are a favoured target of thieves and people intent on causing chaos.
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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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Most of those disgruntled Republicans, as Mr Trump appreciated, also favoured more defence spending and no cuts to Social Security.
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Miners are favoured because they often shoulder the responsibilities of governments in remote places, building schools and hospitals, for example.
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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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He added that Franklin Templeton favoured being short euro as a hedge against political risks that could continue to unfold.
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Tajani said May told him she would consider it but gave no indication of whether she favoured such an extension.
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Tax-favoured debt is the not-very-secret sauce of companies like Blackstone and KKR, euphemistically called private-equity companies.
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But investors think the dollar still remains the more favoured flight-to-safety currency over the yen and Swiss franc.
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"LVMH dominates a structurally favoured sector, buoyed by globalisation and income inequality," says Luca Solca of Bernstein, a research firm.
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A survey last year showed nearly 80 percent of Japanese in their 20s to 50s favoured legalising same-sex marriage.
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Respondents favoured London over New York in terms of the most favourable regulatory regime for financial services in the world.
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On July 10th the FBI arrested six individuals, including two members of the administration, for directing $15.5m to favoured businessmen.
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Sentiment was also lifted after the market's favoured candidate, Emmanuel Macron, won the first round of the French presidential election.
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But natural gas is becoming an increasingly favoured feedstock, particularly in the United States where shale gas production has risen.
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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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What distinguishes the advances of the computer age from those of the Industrial Revolution is that they have favoured skilled workers.
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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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While a "couple" of Fed members supported a deeper cut of half a percentage point, "several" favoured no change at all.
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The favoured trick so far has been to change the signposts, so that state highways magically become district or municipal roads.
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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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To sell more and more ads, Facebook's algorithms, for instance, have favoured "engaging" content, which can often be the bad kind.
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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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But the talks always favoured the North—winning it more aid, an easing of sanctions or more time for nuclear development.
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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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Instead he seems minded to buttress it with sanctions targeting Iranian misconduct in other fields: a policy that Hillary Clinton favoured.
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TENNIS was born as a leisurely pastime for the upper class, meant to be played at whatever pace the participants favoured.
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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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And there is the WTO's most-favoured-nation principle, which allows discriminatory trade practices only in an approved free-trade area.
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But dividing communal land has favoured the monied at the expense of ordinary pastoralists and led to growing inequality, Nkaru said.
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But it is also possible, the papers suggest, that they give this information to favoured clients to boost their own business.
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When his favoured candidate for president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a hardliner, won a fishy election in June 2009, swarms of people protested.
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The policy of no positive agenda, says Kirill Rogov, a Russian political analyst, deprives Mr Putin of his favoured blackmailing tactic.
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Censors tilt the playing field by blocking Hollywood films when their release might tempt audiences away from favoured home-grown ones.
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But one doesn't rush to regulate The Economist or the Washington Post because our leaders once favoured the war in Iraq.
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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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The group's favoured modus operandi had been suicide bombings and hit-and-run raids, not the capture and control of territory.
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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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The five-year, five-year breakeven forward — the European Central Bank's favoured gauge of market inflation expectations — fell to 1.36 percent.
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Only last month Treasury officials told senior financial sector executives that the government was planning to back their long favoured plan.
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Party bosses like state-owned banks: they can be relied on to direct lending to favoured companies and loyal officials' projects.
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Tanned skin is not favoured in many Asian countries, where there is a huge market for beauty products promising fairer skin.
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The prices of yen, gold and liquid government bonds of favoured countries soared as investors rushed to traditional safe-haven assets.
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Brexit has contributed to hastening a shift away from real estate, traditionally a favoured choice for investment in Britain, to technology.
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Its latest falls were triggered by concerns that May favoured a hard Brexit which most economists believe would damage the economy.
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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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Most importantly, many Republicans explained that they had come to Mr Cruz only lately, after their favoured candidates had dropped out.
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Ring-like objects stretched across her hands like delicate cutlery, and she favoured pleated fabrics, feathers, unusual silhouettes and complicated footwear.
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Some 183% favoured introducing sharia law in some areas of Britain, while 39% felt that wives should always obey their husbands.
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An entire floor of Degas's Paris house was stuffed with easels displaying old masters, which favoured visitors were allowed to view.
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In the third quarter, one of the RBA-favoured measures of inflation - trimmed mean - rose 0.4%, unchanged from the prior quarter.
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Earlier, the BBC said May would not seek prior parliamentary approval for joining military action because she favoured taking action soon.
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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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Investors have favoured drug and bank stock to reflect Trump's campaign promises to simplify regulation in the health and financial sectors.
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Chiefly used in vehicle exhausts to reduce harmful emissions, platinum is favoured for diesel engines and palladium is preferred for petroleum.
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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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Seven MPC members had favoured a cut to 16.5%, while one member suggested a steeper cut to 16.0%, Monday's statement said.
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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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China will also further lower most-favoured-nation import tariffs on some information technology products from July 1, said the ministry.
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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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For years shoddy teaching has favoured urban children whose parents can afford to send them to cramming schools or to study abroad.
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The Guardian-ICM survey that found 103 percent of people favoured a vote on the final Brexit deal, with 34 percent opposed.
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He favoured ambitious programmes of public works, including rebuilding South London from County Hall to Greenwich so that it rivalled St James's.
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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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Nor were greedy capitalists much favoured, even though the palace, and the elites who circled it, made billions as Thailand grew rich.
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Though relations might be testy from time to time, the economic logic which favoured getting along was simply too strong to ignore.
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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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But until recently, it has said it favoured EVs for short-distance commuting, given their limited driving range and lengthy charging time.
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London hopes to become the GIC's favoured gateway to global capital markets, to the benefit of British-based bankers, lawyers and consultants.
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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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But what if, instead of promoting favoured schemes, Indian governments instead challenged experts to propose the cleverest interventions they could think of?
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In a recent poll almost 70% said they were much better off than their parents, but 52% said they favoured more equality.
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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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That is, in part, why buying A-shares (yuan-denominated stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen) is a favoured trade of bulls.
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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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A separate weekly online poll by ICM published simultaneously showed voters favoured Britain leaving the EU by 47 percent to 44 percent.
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Still, laws requiring voters to present photo ID are broadly popular; a Gallup poll in 2016 suggested 80% of Americans favoured them.
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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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Indeed, Mr Juppé is now favoured in the presidential primary which the Republicans, the centre-right opposition party, will hold in November.
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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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Renault is also severing ties with Ghosn's favoured communications shop Les Rois Mages, run by Claudine Pons, and security consultant Alain Bauer.
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During her first term, in 290-21988, she spent extravagantly and unwisely on higher pensions and unproductive tax breaks for favoured industries.
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FEDERICO ANGHELÉRiparte il futuroRome I am appalled that you chose Myanmar as your country of the year ("Most favoured nation", December 19983th).
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Old-style governments favoured nationalisation, printing money and (in some cases) rounding peasants up at gunpoint and forcing them onto collective farms.
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It's hard to say whether a single Game One victory means that the Thunder should truly now be favoured over the Warriors.
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Thousands of leaked e-mails showing that the Democratic Party leadership favoured Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders exposed rifts within the party.
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Indeed 55% of voters who scored positively on our conspiracism index favoured Mr Trump, compared with 44% of their less superstitious peers.
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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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Equity funds were the favoured home for the majority of the assets, with managers in charge of a collective 13 trillion euros.
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Geography sets France out on Europe's western fringes, off the favoured route from Syria via Turkey and the Greek islands to Germany.
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As well as being right-hand drive, Japanese cars are favoured for being in better condition than other rusty hand-me-downs.
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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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Hopkin said other steps were needed, such as smoothing out differences in capital charges between securitised debt and more favoured covered bonds.
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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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But it is a stretch to use state-aid rules to achieve the sort of tax harmonisation that is favoured in Brussels.
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U.S. markets were gearing up for a blizzard of data, including the Federal Reserve's favoured gauge of inflation - core personal consumption expenditures.
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Horst Seehofer, leader of Merkel's Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), said he favoured a tie-up with the FDP.
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Yet when it comes to the Olympics, Vonn has a solitary gold medal, in her favoured downhill, from Vancouver eight years ago.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman indicated last year he favoured ending the guardianship system but stopped short of backing its annulment.
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The dollar failed to draw much support from higher Treasury yields as the risk-averse mood favoured its peers like the yen.
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Devising schemes for favoured industries, like U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed $50 billion package for the country's airlines, risks missing the point.
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The president, who had favoured Hillary Clinton in the American elections of 20163, was keen to patch things up with Mr Trump.
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The Aussie is a favoured liquid hedging proxy during times of financial stress and moves can often be volatile in the currency.
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Before the 2016 Brexit referendum, the side that favoured remaining in the European Union was leading in the polls, she pointed out.
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One senior industry source, however, said New York is likely to be the favoured option for the Saudi government and Prince Mohammad.
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The Fed's favoured inflation measure rose at a 1.9-percent annualized rate in the fourth quarter, only marginally below the target rate.
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During his election campaign in 2017 Emmanuel Macron said he favoured liberalisation, denouncing the existing rules as a form of "intolerable discrimination".
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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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SNB deputy chairman Fritz Zurbruegg said the bank was barred from pursuing a structural investment policy which favoured some sectors over others.
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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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Consequently, she will be able to compete at Rio 2016 as a neutral athlete, and take part in her favoured 800m event.
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A study by researchers at the University of Chicago of half a million Californian baby names found that conservatives favoured harder-edged names.
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Voters with poorer health and lower social cohesion, as measured by low expressed willingness to co-operate with others, also favoured Mr Trump.
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One group stands in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson, one of America's founding fathers, who favoured smaller government and less concentration in business.
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He said that despite Singapore's 90% credit card penetration rate, cash is still favoured in an estimated 30% of day-to-day transactions.
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But two weeks ago the FBI arrested a pair of senior officials, accusing them of redirecting over $15.5m in funds to favoured businesses.
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Other safe-haven assets were also favoured, with the Swiss franc rising to 1.0782 franc per euro, its highest level since late June.
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That has consequences: lots of Europeans expect politicians to shield firms deemed national champions from competition or to subsidise jobs in favoured industries.
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Both parties favoured rolling back a pension reform so that some Italians will again be able to retire at 62 instead of 67.
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British Future, a think-tank, found that 84% (and 77% of Leave voters) favoured allowing European residents in Britain to stay after Brexit.
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And if Britain favoured its own firms at home, that could invite a tit-for-tat response from European governments, warns Mr Nikpay.
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As capital rushes into an ever narrower set of favoured rich-country assets, there is growing anxiety that it might all suddenly unwind.
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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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His nemesis was Antonio Delfim Netto, who favoured expansion through debt and inflation, which would cost Brazil a "lost decade" in the 1980s.
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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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The advantages of being a conglomerate in luxury include having more muscle to secure brands favoured spots and lower rents inside shopping malls.
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The first group of men, who received no prompt, favoured Hillary Clinton by 16 points (New Jersey is heavily Democratic in presidential elections).
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Behind this "veil of ignorance", Rawls argued, no one would support policies that favoured say, people of one sex or race over another.
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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 weaknesses of the coalition deal—a visionless shopping list dominated by handouts for various favoured, and differentially deserving, interest groups—epitomise this.
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Chunks of Germany's budget surplus (€45bn, or $55bn) are parcelled out among favoured causes: child benefit, pensions, modest tax cuts and infrastructure investment.
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An added wrinkle is that the Fed's favoured measure of inflation, the core personal consumption expenditure (PCE) index, is out early on Thursday.
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Its cultivation centred on the Wuyi mountains of Fujian province, but spread through China and then Japan as the favoured drink of Buddhists.
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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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Then there is the WTO's "most-favoured-nation" rule, which bars discrimination unless it is allowed by a fully registered free-trade deal.
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Even when Labour was cruising to easy victories, as the party did in 2001, older voters favoured the Conservatives by a slim margin.
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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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John Bolton said he favoured keeping up the pressure on North Korea in the run-up to proposed talks on its nuclear programme.
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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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Improvements in data collection and analysis also gave rise to more detailed empirical research, instead of the wide-ranging concepts that he favoured.
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The first draft of banking bill was criticised by some experts who said the Islamic finance portion favoured Islamic banks over conventional banks.
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Noonan said the government shared the principle of pushing for a further reduction in mortgage costs but favoured doing so through increased competition.
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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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The move probably has more to do with a bolder—and often clumsy—foreign policy under King Salman and his favoured son, Muhammad.
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Despite the closeness of most opinion polls, gambling markets have consistently favoured a Remain vote; the odds on Leave are down to 25%.
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The euro zone central bank's favoured measure of longer-term market inflation expectations fell to a record low below 1.4 percent on Thursday.
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Tomsik and Hampl are the last board members appointed by the previous president, Vaclav Klaus, who had favoured more eurosceptic economists than Zeman.
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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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He supported his Impressionist friends by buying their paintings; later he was able to acquire favoured old masters such as Ingres and Delacroix.
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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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Global Telecom, one of foreign investors' favoured Egyptian stocks, was up 2.0 percent at 2.08 pounds, heading for its second day of gains.
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Chahed's party, Nidaa Tounes, said it supported a full cabinet reshuffle while Ennahda favoured changing only some portfolios for the sake of stability.
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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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She announced the project via her favoured medium of Twitter (where else?) early this morning in full caps-locked and emoji-fuelled glory.
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The yen, a favoured harbour in times of stress due to Japan's position as the world's largest creditor nation, climbed across the board.
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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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Some 0003% wanted a snap election, 2000% favoured resurrecting 21-Star's previous coalition with the hard-right League party, and 20.8973% were undecided.
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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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COORDINATED SELL-DOWN A most-favoured nation clause on the loan expired in December when arranging banks entered a coordinated sell-down process.
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Oil was less favoured, however, falling further as OPEC delayed a decision on output cuts while awaiting support from non-OPEC heavyweight Russia.
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He prefers open-necked pastel shirts rather than the suit and tie usually favoured in Britain's financial sector, and often swears for emphasis.
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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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That appeared to contrast with what German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the German parliament on Wednesday when she favoured an extension of "several months".
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Congress abolished the national-origins quota system in 1965, with legislation that favoured skilled workers and immediate family members of immigrants already in America.
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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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Each time they are asked to vote for their favoured candidate in a secret ballot, and the person with the fewest votes is eliminated.
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YouGov said May was still the most favoured choice for prime minister, though her 43 percent rating is the lowest it has ever been.
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Petry's co-leader, Joerg Meuthen, told Focus magazine he favoured a group including Petry's arch rival Alexander Gauland leading the party into the Sept.
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The government has disowned peace talks with Kurdish insurgents, opting instead for a ruthless military offensive, a solution Mr Bahceli has favoured for years.
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Diplomats said he would again face a more cautious line from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said she favoured an extension of "several months".
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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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The Republicans' nominee, François Fillon, who was at first favoured to win the presidency, tumbled in the polls after a parliamentary-payroll scandal broke.
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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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He says that if the election committee chooses someone who is not the public's favoured candidate, that would heighten "people's expectations for universal suffrage".
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The asset manager favoured sectors such as consumer, education and environmental protection that benefit from rising domestic consumption and are shielded from trade frictions.
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The WTO's members promise not to raise tariffs above agreed levels and to apply them based on the principle of "most favoured nation" (MFN).
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Polls have shown a dead heat there, so he would be heavily favoured in the event of a national polling error to his benefit.
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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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You say that "it is a stretch to use state-aid rules to achieve the sort of tax harmonisation that is favoured in Brussels".
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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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They had little support from their own government, which favoured diplomacy instead (it didn't help that some Herero leaders were prominent in opposition politics).
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The prospect of a slow-motion Fed dragged Wall Street's favoured gauge of fear, the CBOE Volatility index, to its lowest since December 1993.
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To date the firm has mostly favoured growth over careful checks that its "community", as it calls its 2.1bn users, is being properly protected.
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Global Telecom, one of foreign investors' favoured Egyptian stocks, fell 1.0 percent to 2.06 Egyptian pounds after hitting a session high of 2.10 pounds.
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The RBNZ also said it favoured a lower New Zealand dollar, although it avoided bold language, prompting a brief jump in the local currency.
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The potential collapse of a German coalition agreement that investors believed would have favoured Southern European countries was the primary driver of that widening.
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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 Brotherhood's founder, Hassan al-Banna, favoured violence in some circumstances; but during its long history the group has mostly preferred a peaceful approach.
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A poll by Gallup Korea in September found that 41% of Koreans favoured scrapping Shin Kori 5 and 6, while 40% backed their construction.
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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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The dollar dipped 0.05 percent to 106.605 yen, having slipped from the week's peak of 107.680 as broader risk aversion favoured its Japanese peer.
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Investors favoured defensive stocks such as utilities, tobacco companies and telecoms, sought after in volatile markets due to their solid cash-flow and dividends.
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Among their favoured stocks in this regard were travel group Thomas Cook, telecoms group Vodafone, home improvement retailer Kingfisher and textile services company Berendsen.
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Perceptions that the Bank of Japan would not immediately ease monetary policy, which in theory would curb yen strength, further favoured the Japanese currency.
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Pesta's favoured method of victory is to take his opponents down and maul them on the ground—a risky game if you're facing Oliynyk.
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There have been conversations and, although nothing is set in stone and things are subject to change, he's certainly one of Guy's favoured choices.
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He also said he favoured lower direct taxes on jobs, which could be offset with higher indirect levies, like sale taxes, to support growth.
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The dollar was little changed at 106.750 yen, having slipped from the week's peak of 107.680 as broader risk aversion favoured its Japanese peer.
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The book argues that food and kitchen utensils grounded the abstraction of his paintings in everyday life, and the produce Picasso favoured was unfussy.
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Only half of the ticket revenues are devoted to prize money, leaving more than a third for favoured causes (the rest goes on administration).
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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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China muddied its own pitch there by signing too many murky deals for ports and other infrastructure, causing a political backlash that favoured India.
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Before Thursday's decision, many in financial markets thought Carney had hinted in a January speech that he favoured a "precautionary" rate cut this month.
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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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Markets had favoured Clinton as a status quo candidate who would be considered a safe pair of hands at home on the world stage.
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Emerging markets were the most preferred equity class with a net 34% overweight, while the least favoured was the UK with a net 28% underweight.
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The dollar was already losing ground to both the yen and the euro, as investors favoured currencies of countries that boasted large current account surpluses.
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To ensure that a favoured company won, the ministry posted it only on a bulletin board in a corridor inside one of its own buildings.
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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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Way back in 20.6, its boss, Jeff Bezos, had a different message, telling his shareholders that its business model was "cash-favoured and capital efficient".
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South Korea had warned it could reconsider the GSOMIA after Japan imposed export curbs and then stripped South Korea of its favoured trading partner status.
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King Louis XVI of France liked to present gilded snuff boxes to favoured diplomats such as Benjamin Franklin, who received one encrusted with 408 diamonds.
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STONECUTTERS ISLAND in Hong Kong used to be a favoured habitat for poisonous snakes and eye-catching birds such as the white-bellied sea eagle.
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No player remaining in the bracket's bottom half is seeded higher than 12th, and none would have been favoured in a match against the German.
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That served as a bulwark against foreign predators, but the pact also became synonymous with cosy deals that favoured insiders – the so-called "salotto buono".
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In the case of Mr Nadal's draw in New York, however, Elo heavily favoured a typical slam winner against each of his under-powered opponents.
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The German government, which still holds a 15.6 percent stake, has denied a report that it favoured a merger of Commerzbank with France's BNP Paribas.
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Yet it is a hybrid model used in the southern city of Guangzhou that has become the favoured approach among policymakers in China's biggest cities.
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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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Across the centuries, rulers produced their own unique symbols on coinage to propagate a flattering image (agricultural bounty, architectural monuments) or favoured ideas (fortune, victory).
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American negotiators, though their banks are little affected, favoured a high floor and Europeans a low one or none; the French were the most vocal.
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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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INCJ was still considered the favoured buyer, another source said on Tuesday, partly because of the certainty that the state's involvement brought to the deal.
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With each new elderly monarch, they say, favoured sons have indulged in self-aggrandisement, leaving courtiers to disguise their acquisitions as privatisations and economic reforms.
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Two more board members favoured focusing on the effect of expanding base money in pushing up prices and spurring public expectations that inflation will accelerate.
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TOKYO, June 21 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond prices edged down on Tuesday amid an ebb in risk aversion that favoured equities over safe-haven debt.
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He was the first, he says, to make one widely sold badge featuring Mr Trump's favoured counter-terrorism strategy: "Bomb the Shit Out of ISIS".
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But now inner-city residents have been moved to the outskirts, protected areas developed and mega-projects favoured over more sensible bits of urban planning.
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Amazon has favoured relentless growth over the pursuit of profits for much of its history, keeping prices low to win loyalty and grab market share.
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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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Some complain that their favoured card is not accepted universally and, says Mr Miyake, the cost of installing multiple devices is passed on to them.
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Investors instead favoured safer assets such as U.S. Treasuries, with the 10-year notes yield falling to a two-week low of 1.714 percent overnight.
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Research among Somalis living in Sweden found that women were convinced the men favoured infibulation; in fact, men were opposed—but never spoke about it.
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Catalan officials said 21 percent of voters in Sunday's ballot favoured secession, raising the possibility of a unilateral declaration of independence in the wealthy region.
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Britain appears to have set its course for a "hard Brexit", where a clean break is favoured to regain control over issues such as immigration.
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This is seeing many companies putting in place work-from-home policies and negating the need for daily commutes, where e-scooters are often favoured.
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The group had favoured a planned deal for Germany's Siemens to merge its rail business with Alstom, which would have given it a way out.
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The move, which came into force on Wednesday, prompted South Korea to drop Japan from its favoured trading list and scrap an intelligence-sharing agreement.
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The move, which came into force on Wednesday, prompted South Korea to drop Japan from its favoured trading list and scrap an intelligence-sharing agreement.
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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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Recent performance for distressed debt funds has lagged another favoured debt play - lending money to help finance mergers and acquisitions via leveraged buyout funds (LBFs).
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Both Nishikori and Sousa entered their match after tight opening rounds and were evenly matched in the early exchanges on their favoured hard court surfaces.
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Mr Corbyn's Labour Party has favoured candidates with deep local roots, such as Angela Rayner and Lisa Nandy, over androids with PPE degrees from Oxford.
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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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On that same debate stage, in contrast to her prepared lines, she said she favoured abolishing private insurance, only to reverse herself the next day.
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Next year, China will implement temporary import tariffs, which are lower than the most-favoured-nation tariffs, on over 850 products, said the finance ministry.
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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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The gambit might have produced a fascinating experiment in urban development, and a departure from the concentration of top tech firms in a few favoured places.
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Or they may "crack" districts apart, parcelling out a majority in one district into several others where they have no hope of electing their favoured leaders.
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ONE factor behind the rise of income inequality in America over the past four decades is that the labour market has increasingly favoured the well-educated.
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He says that in his experience, he's noticed that studies that could potentially paint porn in a negative light is favoured amongst grant and funding agencies.
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While a "couple" of Fed members supported a deeper cut of half a percentage point, the minutes showed, a larger number favoured no change at all.
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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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The core personal consumption expenditures index, the Fed's favoured measure of inflation, slowed to 1.6 percent and further away from the central bank's 2 percent target.
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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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Confronted with vast deficits after the oil price collapsed in 123, the king's favoured son, Muhammad bin Salman (pictured centre), set out to change all that.
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The dollar came under additional pressure versus the yen as a decline in U.S. Treasury yields showed some investors still favoured the safety of government debt.
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In the currency market, the yen is favoured, with the dollar changing hands at 109.65 yen, having hit a three-month low of 109.47 on Thursday.
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In the currency market, the yen is favoured, with the dollar changing hands at 109.83 yen, having hit a three-month low of 109.47 on Thursday.
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A survey published by Legatum in 2017 found that 3.93% of Britons favoured public ownership of water, 77% of electricity and gas, and 76% of railways.
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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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In the currency market, the yen is favoured, with the dollar changing hands at 109.71 yen, having hit a three-month low of 109.47 on Thursday.
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The Democrats are favoured to wrest control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, and Republicans are expected to retain their majority in the Senate.
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In recent decades these disparities have consistently favoured the Republicans, and there is no reason to think that trend is going to change on its own.
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He has executed an uncle and assassinated a half-brother (in whose favoured Singapore hotel, the St Regis, Mr Kim stayed the night before the summit).
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Some 69 percent of the 17,13 respondents surveyed across all 19 euro zone countries said they favoured deeper economic coordination across the bloc, including budgetary policies.
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The core personal consumption expenditures index, the Fed's favoured measure of inflation, slowed to 1.6 percent and further way from the central bank's 2 percent target.
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Telecommunications blue chip Global Telecom, a favoured stock among regional and international investors, declined 0.5 percent but Telecom Egypt added 0.6 percent in unusually heavy trade.
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The threat of regulatory sanctions continues to hang over all financial institutions, but Bank of America has been replaced by Wells Fargo as a favoured target.
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In order to be favoured to win the House our model thinks the Democrats must win the two-party national popular vote by about 5.5 points.
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The day after celebrating the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in London on November 2nd, he said that he favoured "fixing" the deal, not "nixing" it.
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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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A small seated figure in a large white space, Mr Gates has underlined her "everywoman" status by casting her from tar, one of his favoured materials.
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Several leaders favoured a longer extension of up to a year, if only to avoid being asked repeatedly to agree to a series of short ones.
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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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Deprived of their favoured no-deal option, more hardliners have swung behind her deal purely to stop a softer option or, worse, no Brexit at all.
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The OSCE claimed the campaign was marked by "intimidating and xenophobic rhetoric, media bias and opaque campaign financing", while public television "clearly favoured the ruling coalition".
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If there is a grand bargain, it would be likely to be struck at a last minute summit - the European Union's favoured vehicle for resolving crises.
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"They all went in one direction like fish in a tank," says Johnnie Byrd, a previous Florida Speaker and among the minority who favoured Mr Rubio.
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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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Informed Saudis who follow royal affairs say he is the favoured son of King Salman, who made him his personal adviser at a very young age.
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In currency markets, the main early news was the yen which is often favoured in times of stress as Japan remains the world's largest creditor nation.
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While the government lavishes cash on Mr Correa's pet projects—last year some deans at Yachay were paid $16,300 a month—less-favoured universities face cutbacks.
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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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Two of his three children appear gregarious; the other, Albus Severus Potter, named after his father's favoured teachers, causes trouble that sets off the plays' events.
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In a similar test, students were asked to state their preference between a mug and a chocolate bar; 203% favoured the former and 44% the latter.
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The five-year, five-year breakeven forward, cited by the ECB as one of its favoured measures of inflation expectations, fell as low as 1.4740 percent.
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He says that he was the first to make one widely sold badge, featuring Mr Trump's favoured counter-terrorism strategy: "Bomb the Shit Out of ISIS".
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A mercantilist party that favoured moral and fiscal conservatism and intervention abroad would collect less than 153% of the vote against Mrs Clinton or Mr Trump.
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A second source who met the task team recently confirmed it favoured splitting up Eskom - a strategy which analysts say should encourage greater efficiency and transparency.
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Munger added his own personal experience: "The four closest friends of my youth were highly intelligent, ethical, humorous types, favoured in person and background," he said.
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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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And, in a sign of jumpiness, some Western firms have favoured short-term projects rather than sink their capital in decades-long bets on oil's future.
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The ECB's favoured gauge of market inflation expectations, the five-year, five-year breakeven forward, fell below 29 percent for the first time since January 2015.
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It had fallen as much as 4 percent in overnight trading as Trump moved closer to securing the election win over heavily favoured rival Hillary Clinton.
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The report added that while Abertis' main shareholder Caixa favoured a tie-up with Atlantia, the Spanish group's management preferred bringing on board an infrastructure fund.
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The larger volume of low-risk assets helps explain why regulatory capital ratio requirements for EU banks have favoured RWA measurements over the LR so far.
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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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"The excessive rainfall has favoured lodging and we should expect significant yield differences between plots that have been flattened and those that have not," he said.
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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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JOE ZAMMIT-LUCIACo-founderRadix London Retaliation is never a good option to save a multilateral order based on facilitating trade and the most-favoured nation principle (MFN).
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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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The Telegraph said Sajid Javid, the interior minister, favoured a deal that would make it easier for Britain to sign trade deals, but was unlikely to quit.
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Polls showed that 63% of Slovaks favoured revoking the amnesty law, and on March 13th Robert Fico, the current prime minister, announced that he would do so.
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Another theory is a spread of so-called "soft corruption", where tenders are manipulated in order to award contracts to favoured bidders without technically breaking any laws.
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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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His paquetazo devalues the currency from the official rate of 250,000 old bolívares to the dollar—available to a favoured few—to the market rate of 6m.
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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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There was a point at which Turkey was seen as a candidate for EU membership; it was one of the most-favoured emerging markets for international investors.
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier rejected imposing more punitive measures on Russia, although a German newspaper cited sources saying that Chancellor Angela Merkel favoured the idea.
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The government has launched a four-week consultation to help shape its new most favoured nation tariff regime, which will be known as the UK Global Tariff.
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For the most part, the vote will be an exercise in stage-managed democracy, with favoured candidates from the ruling United Russia party ubiquitously sailing to victory.
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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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Even legendary bond investor and ex-Pimco boss Bill Gross said last week he now favoured real assets like land and gold over more traditional investment classes.
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A study of 170 economics modules taught at seven universities found that marks in exams favoured the ability to "operate a model" over proofs of independent judgment.
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Even ill-favoured currencies such as the Russian rouble, Mexican peso and Chinese yuan have defied their doubters, strengthening against the dollar this year (see chart below).
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The photo-montage, circulated in late August on Telegram, the favoured communications app of Islamic State (IS), is a blatant incitement to "lone wolves" to kill Italians.
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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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Indeed, on Brexit, the mass of gamblers (the general public, in other words) backed Leave, but the odds were skewed by some wealthy punters who favoured Remain.
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Even those standing at the most favoured spot, which is in southern Illinois, will enjoy just 19993 seconds of totality, about a third of the maximum possible.
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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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These days Fidesz's ideologues, such as they are, assemble theoretical scaffolding to justify the channelling of state resources to favoured businessmen under the rubric of "economic patriotism".
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LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Top-rated German bond yields rose on Tuesday as investors favoured riskier stocks after weak Chinese data fanned hopes for more monetary stimulus.
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In one conducted by Echelon Insights, a Republican-aligned analytics firm, 48% of voters declared Mrs Clinton the winner, compared with just 22% who favoured Mr Trump.
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We want friends, employers and partners to like us for who we are, and we expect similar, more natural relationships when we interact with our favoured brands.
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When asked who make the best prime minister, the YouGov poll for The Times showed 35 percent of voters would prefer Corbyn, while 34 percent favoured May.
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Ryanair said it would be interested in a bid but complained it hadn't been invited to join the process, which it sees as heavily favoured to Lufthansa.
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He cited a survey showing that female voters preferred Mrs Clinton to Mr Trump by 54% to 35% while men favoured her rival by 52% to 37%.
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That, in turn, could eventually allow central banks to raise interest rates back up above zero, restoring to them the use of their favoured economy-steering tool.
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A typical user values the music of a few favoured artists highly—highly enough to pay for their albums (and perhaps also for concert tickets and merchandise).
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That follows a fall of 1.4 percent in 2018, when rising U.S. interest rates caused a stampede out of emerging markets, the favoured place to earn carry.
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For decades, the kingdom's price and production strategy have been communicated through non-attributable briefings given to favoured journalists and analysts by "a senior Gulf OPEC source".
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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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So we know, now, what Christmas songs are: they are good, or they are Christmassy, and we love them like we do a brother, a favoured aunt.
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But it also plays into the agenda of Netanyahu's Orthodox and right-wing political allies, who have long favoured a country that excludes outsiders such as Palestinians.
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More than half (56%) favoured intervention in all ethical situations while a another 35% wanted intervention when the personal behaviour has a direct impact on the business.
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It said those who submitted longer leave duration requests would be favoured and that cabin crew could take leave in blocks of six, 12, or 18 days.
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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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Asked if she would consider breaking up companies that violate rules, Vestager told her confirmation hearing at the European Parliament that it was not her favoured option.
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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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Although Mr Corbyn said he too favoured an early election, he insisted that it was vital first to stop a no-deal Brexit happening on October 31st.
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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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When the country switched from toxic coal gas—the favoured means of suicide among women and elderly men—to harmless North Sea gas, rates among those groups crashed.
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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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Martin's comments come a week after Uniper first said it favoured the deepwater port on the North Sea coast compared to RWE's Brunsbuettel project on the Kiel canal.
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Michigan, in contrast, has favoured quantity over quality: the state is home to three of the ten school districts with the highest share of charter students in America.
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Its favoured gauge of long-term inflation expectations, the five-year, five-year breakeven forward, on Wednesday fell below 1.43 percent to its lowest level in six weeks.
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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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The company still favoured small to mid-sized companies over larger ones in any its hunt for potential acquisitions, armed with its $1.4 billion war-chest, Schachler said.
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Sjöblad speaks with schoolboy excitement, sporting a suit and tie like the other European participants at the Dusseldorf event (the US cyborgs favoured black T-shirts and jeans).
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It would have grown by 24 percentage points over a decade, only slightly less than the 219 point growth Japan, Free Lunch's favoured benchmark, managed from 216-264.
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Either they will force other countries to drop trade barriers and crown him as dealmaker-in-chief, or they will pay down government debt while saving favoured industries.
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It said most (but not all) of its board favoured more debt relief to get Greece's public finances in order—an idea quickly trashed by euro-zone officials.
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A long-established tradition of crony capitalism, with large incumbent firms favoured in myriad ways, from licences to access to capital, makes it hard for startups to breathe.
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Many of the causes of Italy's generation gap can be found in political choices made in the past 20 years that have favoured the old over the young.
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Léon Foucault, known for his pendulum and celebrating his 200th birthday in September 2019, died with a full head of hair and favoured three-piece suits over turtlenecks.
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