ELISABETTA Trevisan, a 50-year-old teacher from Venice, plans to use interest payments from an Italian bond for small savers to help put her two sons through university.
The three bonds she bought for €40,000 (US$43,100) carry an annual coupon of up to 4.5%, a healthy mark-up on other savings options, with payments every three or six months.
In the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, people at the forefront of the fight against desertification have recently resorted to a new approach – combining sand control with wind and solar power projects to tame the once ever-expanding desert.
Former President Bill Clinton tore up a draft of his DNC speech after seeing the enthusiasm in Chicago on Monday night. …
TOKYO: Consumption spending by households comprising two or more members in Japan in February averaged 279,868 yen, falling 0.5% from a year before in price-adjusted real terms, internal affairs ministry data show.