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...The figures, which track data across all retailers, provide early indications of price pressures ahead of the official inflation data for March, published on April 17....
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...Shares in French luxury group Hermès fell 2.9 per cent despite a 17 per cent jump in the company’s revenues in the first three months of the year....
...Private sector holders swapped 17 per cent of their titles....
...Markets are pricing in 0.38 percentage points of cuts by the end of the year, down slightly from 0.42 percentage points before the inflation figures were published....
...UK mortgage approvals beat expectations in February to hit their highest in 17 months, according to official data that reflects the fall in borrowing costs since the middle of last year....
...But a Redfield and Wilton poll this week put Labour’s Richard Parker on 42 points, 14 points ahead of Street on 28. A separate Savanta poll put Street just three points behind Labour....
...Growth this year in modified domestic demand, Ireland’s preferred measure of output, is now forecast to be 1.9 per cent, compared with a forecast of 2.2 per cent last autumn, and 2.3 per cent in 2025....
...Headline inflation stood at 4 per cent in January, unchanged from December but well below a 42-year high of 11.1 per cent in October 2022....
...LVMH is up 9 per cent so far this year, Cartier-owner Richemont up 14 per cent and Kering down 17 per cent....
...Xinyi Solar rose 5.2 per cent, bringing its gains for the year to 42.1 per cent....
...It made €2.9bn in profit in the first quarter on total income of €15.4bn, up 9 per cent on a year earlier and a record quarterly result for the group....
...Yields on benchmark 10-year German Bunds climbed 0.07 percentage points to 2.42 per cent....
...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....
...That compares with 8.9 per cent from public equities and 2.4 per cent from fixed income. The documents did not disclose if the figures took account of fees....
...Data also published on Tuesday showed that Eurozone headline inflation remained steady and in line with forecasts at 2.4 per cent for April, after a 17-month period in which it had fallen almost continuously...
...Half of the jobs in the US pay less than $42,000 annually....
...Imports already pay a 10 per cent EU tariff rate, amounting to roughly €2,100 a vehicle....
...Kirkby takes over after Jansen announced cuts of up to 42 per cent of the company’s workforce by the end of the decade last year....
...The group’s operating margin was 17 per cent....
...A sudden spike in the price at 6.17 pm in New York pushed the price to a high of $2,222.39 per troy ounce, and moderated closer to the $2,200 level soon after....
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