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...Oil prices fell, with international benchmark Brent crude dropping 1.4 per cent to $88.35 a barrel....
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...Interest rate sensitive 2-year gilt yields dropped from 4.14 per cent ahead of the announcement to 4.12 per cent, down 0.11 percentage points on the day....
...The British Retail Consortium said on Tuesday that annual shop price inflation slowed to 2.9 per cent in January, down from 4.3 per cent in December....
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...However, the number of first-time home buyers jumped from 14.1 to 20.4 per 1,000 in London between 2019 and 2023, while elsewhere it only rose from 12.7 to 14.4 per 1,000....
...Target noted consumer spending for discretionary categories remained under pressure, however, reporting a fall in comparable sales of 4.9 per cent....
...London-listed Burberry was down 5.1 per cent, while LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury group, slipped 3.2 per cent....
...The maker of Dettol disinfectant, Durex condoms and Nurofen said like-for-like revenues rose 3.5 per cent to £14.6bn, lower than the 4.1 per cent uplift expected by analysts....
...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....
...Analysts at JPMorgan noted that MGM China’s adjusted ebitda figure of HK$2.2bn was its highest ever, while revenue at mass tables was 174 per cent higher than during a comparable period before the pandemic...
...Treasury yields fell 0.03 percentage points to 4.14 per cent and corresponding bond yields fell 0.02 percentage points to 2.2 per cent....
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