Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Boule planters by Axel Chay for 13 Desserts, €850 each These geometric metal planters are suitable for indoor or outdoor settings. 13desserts.fr Kukinto Timo Sarpaneva vase by Venini, £1,606 Designed...
...Sales through those platforms, which now serve 1,440 shops, were up 23.6 per cent in 2023....
...Bottega Veneta wool cape, £2,240, matching blouson, £1,440, matching trousers, £1,170, and leather belt, £350. Paul Smith cotton shirt, £250. Gianvito Rossi leather Harris loafers, £514....
...El Casco chrome pencil sharpener, £505, abask.com From left: Dior Men tweed Cannage B9S skater shoes, £1,450. Louis Vuitton leather and canvas Trail Messenger bag, £2,830. Palace cotton cap, £46....
...1997 Chanel tweed jacket, €3,024, vestiairecollective.com Lara Bohinc wool and brass Celeste chair, €3,390, 1stdibs.com Akris cotton-mix top, €440 Airei wool-mix trousers, £1,045, selfridges.com Pols...
...In the first three months of the year, LSEG’s revenues rose 7.3 per cent to £2.1bn, which was in line with analysts’ expectations....
...Equity market activity rose just 1.6 per cent. Profits hit £1.9bn, a 7.6 per cent rise on the same period last year....
...And the score: a stingy 2-1 to Chelsea, the winning goal scored by David Webb, using his head. Far safer than his right peg. Tom MooneyWexford, Ireland...
...Alphabet: Google’s parent company is expected to report that revenue increased 13 per cent to $78.6bn in the first quarter thanks to a rise in advertising revenue....
...The Bank of England held its base rate below 1 per cent for 13 years. But, two years ago, policy suddenly changed....
...The bank’s net interest income for the year rose 49 per cent from 2022, to €2.3bn, lifted by rising central bank interest rates....
...Headline inflation averaged 3.2 per cent last year but has slowed to 2.2 per cent in January on the back of a decline in the imported cost of energy....
...The benchmark S&P 500 slipped 1.2 per cent, with every sector in the negatives. Rate sensitive real estate stocks were the worst performers, followed by the tech sector....
...Statistically Hong Kong’s economy has been much more correlated with the US than with China, as its growth trajectory almost hugs that of the US, up 2.3 times in 30 years versus America’s 2.1 times....
...This was down 13 per cent from $44,642 last year, which itself was down 11 per cent from $50,037 the previous year....
...The Rightmove house price index is compiled from properties coming on to the market through more than 13,000 estate agency branches listed on the portal....
...Services output grew 0.1 per cent in February, while production — including manufacturing, utilities and mining — increased 1.1 per cent. Construction output fell 1.9 per cent....
...The UK benchmark closed 0.6 per cent higher on Friday and now sits about 1 per cent below its record closing high from 13 months ago....
...There are 3,460 medical technology sites (some businesses may have more than one), and a further 1,440 servicing and supplying them, according to government data for the year to April 2022....
...per cent higher at $2,562 a tonne....
...Consultancy Bain expects the market for personal luxury goods to grow by 1 to 4 per cent in 2024, down from an estimated 8 to 10 per cent in 2023....
...A CRH insider has snapped up $2.5mn (£1.9mn) in shares after the dual-listed FTSE 100 building materials supplier posted a jump in earnings and pre-tax profit in its full-year results....
...7 attacks on the Jewish state, which killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials....
...GB News, the bigger of the two, is seen by many as Britain’s answer to America’s Fox News and reaches about 600,000 people a day, compared with 2.4mn for BBC News and 1.7mn for Sky News, according to Enders...
...It added that it still expects total 2023 deliveries of 1.8mn. Tesla shares were down over 2 per cent in early morning trading. Read more on Tesla here...
International Edition