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...On Friday, Iran also held elections for the Assembly of Experts, an 88-member body that might have to choose a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s 84-year-old spiritual leader and commander-in-chief...
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, settled 1.6 per cent higher to $92.06 per barrel on Tuesday and US marker West Texas Intermediate added 1.8 per cent to $88.84....
...Oil prices continued to rise, with international benchmark Brent crude gaining 0.9 per cent to $84.99 a barrel, and US marker West Texas Intermediate adding 0.6 per cent to $80.58 a barrel....
...“One of the most humiliating U-turns the City has ever seen.”...
...The Ifo Institute’s index of business confidence slipped to 84.3 points, down from 88.6 last month and below the 87.1 forecast given by a group of economists in a Reuters poll....
...Russia’s finance ministry said it had managed to pay $564.8 million on a 2022 Eurobond and $84.4 million on a 2042 bond in dollars — the currency specified on the bonds....
...The dollar index, which measures the US currency against six others, dipped 0.2 per cent....
...Brent crude, the oil benchmark, rose on Friday to a three-year high of $84.72 a barrel before settling at $84.46. Sterling rose 0.5 per cent against the dollar to purchase $1.374....
...The funding also lasts for three-months (or 84 days, to be precise)....
...These have a carrying value of £88.4m, which if settled tomorrow would increase consolidated net debt by the same amount, bringing it up to £401m....
...distribution of the digital tokens in price terms: The market price for XRP—and Ripple’s sales prices in the Offering—ranged from a low price of approximately $0.002 per XRP in 2014 to a high price of $3.84...
...The yield on the US 10-year Treasury bond fell 0.26 percentage points to 0.88 per cent....
...It increased its non-gaap earnings per share guidance to between $4.84 and $4.94 for 2019, above its previous forecast of $4.67 to $4.79....
...How significant is Jay Powell’s U-turn for emerging markets? Pretty significant....
...Richard Waters 88....
...That was even more than the forecast 5.4 per cent increase to 84.6m....
...Fixed income and forex The yield on the 10-year US Treasury was flat at 2.84 per cent, having reached 2.88 per cent before the release of US inflation data....
...Nonetheless, the US dollar remains under pressure with the dollar index - a measure of the greenback against a basket of six peer currencies - down 0.4 per cent at 88.84....
...The most important price in an economy is the exchange rate between the local currency and the world's reserve currency - the U.S. dollar....
...In the Treasury market, the yield on the 10-year note, which moves inversely to its price, fell as low as 2.84 per cent before pulling back up to 2.88 per cent, flat on the day....
...Of its production, 88 per cent goes to pubs, hotel and restaurant chains. That means 80 per of sales are repeat orders as dishes are smashed or worn out....
...In the currency markets, the dollar index was down 0.1 per cent at 89.22, but well clear of Friday’s three-year low of 88.44....
...Weak demand pushed yields on 10-year US Treasuries to 2.84 per cent, up 4 basis points, toward Monday’s a four-year high of 2.88 per cent....
...Markets at 0810 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -183.37 (-0.76%) at 23,941 Topix down -9.84 (-0.51%) at 1,901 Hang Seng up +61.88 (+0.19%) at 32,993 US markets S&P 500 up +6.16 (+0.22%) at 2,839 DJIA...
...Markets at 0800 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -84.78 (-0.37%) at 22,622 Topix up +4.10 (+0.23%) at 1,791 Hang Seng down -256.24 (-0.88%) at 28,882 US markets S&P 500 down -2.78 (-0.11%) at 2,639 DJIA...
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