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...If Covid-19’s reproduction or R number — the expected number of people one infected person will infect in a susceptible population — is 1-2, for measles it is 12-18....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index closed 0.9 per cent lower, while the Nasdaq Composite lost 1 per cent. The latter gauge had climbed as much as 1.3 per cent earlier in the session....
...We’re reminded of this chart that Spencer Jakab published in The Wall Street Journal last year, decomposing S&P 500 returns by source....
...Wall Street’s blue-chip S&P 500 index had risen as much as 0.3 per cent earlier in the trading day, after inching up 0.1 per cent to a record closing high on Wednesday....
...It recovered to about $183 on Monday, with expectations for higher steel production helping lift demand....
...It had long-term debts of about $3.1bn as of June, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...Authorities reported another 25 cases in the city by the end of Thursday, taking the tally for the latest outbreak to 183....
...Goldman now forecasts US earnings growth of $175 next year, down from $183 previously....
...David Bowers, ASR’s head of research, described the ebbing of perceived recession risk as a “dramatic shift”, adding: “What dominates this survey is the unwinding of 2019’s global recession scare.”...
...Our revised baseline EPS estimates are $165 in 2020 (previously $174) and $175 in 2021 (previously $183), representing 0% and 6% growth....
...Not only did the ADP release for March at 129,000 miss a forecast rise of 175,000, the February ADP figure was revised up to 197,000 from 183,000....
...S&P noted that Evergrande’s liquidity profile remained weaker than its peers of similar scale or rating....
...Micro-blogging site Twitter posted the S&P 500’s biggest advance of the day, while Oracle fell after it was downgraded by JPMorgan....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent on the day, regaining ground after four straight sessions of declines....
...The S&P 500 was up ¾ of 1 percentage point to 2,469.80....
...Apple rose 3.9 per cent to close at a record high of $183.83 on Friday and climbed 13.3 per cent over the week for its biggest weekly gain in more than 6 years....
...The headline jobs added stood well below consensus forecasts of 183,000, coming in at just 103,000....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.9 per cent at 25,108.02, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.6 per cent to 7,183.506....
...That lifted revenue to £183.6m for the quarter, with UK sales rising by 49 per cent and international sales by 60 per cent....
...Deliveries increased 9 per cent to 3,340, more than the 3,183 units that analysts had predicted, while the average selling price rose 8 per cent to $416,500....
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...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...
...The Alnic MC is a Liberian-flagged 183-metre oil and chemical tanker with a gross tonnage of 30,000 — dwarfing the John S McCain’s 9,000....
...The S&P 500 ended the day up 0.86 per cent at 2,349, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average gaining 183.6 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 20,636.9....
...In Hong Kong the Hang Seng was 0.5 per cent lower while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was off 0.4 per cent. The Japanese yen jumped as investors sought havens....
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