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...Eurozone residential property prices in the fourth quarter fell 0.7 per cent from the previous quarter and 1.1 per cent from a year earlier, according to data from Eurostat....
...The “core” price consumption expenditures figure rose 2 per cent during the fourth quarter, matching the advance estimate but 0.1 percentage point below the second estimate....
...US stocks held steady in early trading on Thursday after revised data showed that economic growth had been stronger than expected in the fourth quarter, a signal that the country’s economy has withstood...
...Japan’s biggest brokerage and investment bank said on Friday that net income in its fourth quarter, which runs to the end of March, came in at ¥56.8bn ($363mn), compared with just ¥7.4bn in the same period...
...Gross domestic product grew 3.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, the commerce department said on Wednesday, down from its initial estimate of 3.3 per cent....
...Citigroup reported better than expected quarterly profits as the bank said it was on track to shed 7,000 jobs this year, a sign that the revamp of the US’s fourth-largest lender may be starting to pay off...
...The total assets of all the banks on the problem bank list at the end of last year was $66bn, or about 0.2 per cent of the overall banking sector. Read more here...
...US labour costs rose by the smallest amount since the second quarter of 2021, in a sign that the pace of pay rises is now slowing as the job market cools....
...Economists expect the US economy to have grown 2.4 per cent in the first quarter, a slower pace than the 3.4 per cent increase in the fourth quarter....
...The figure from the Bureau of Economic Analysis was far below analysts’ expectations of a 2.5 per cent rise and the revised rate of 3.4 per cent for the fourth quarter....
...GDP in the eurozone’s second-largest economy was flat in the three months to December, in line with economists’ forecasts in an earlier Reuters poll and following a 0.1 per cent decline in the third quarter...
...A technical recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of contracting GDP. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a contraction of 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter....
...Family Dollar, which caters mainly to low-income urban customers, reported a 1.2 per cent decline in same-store sales during the fourth quarter....
...Mastercard reported on Wednesday that its sales and earnings rose 13 per cent and 11 per cent respectively in the fourth quarter in another sign of continued health for the economy....
...The subscriber figure was a record high for the fourth quarter and blew past Wall Street expectations of 8.8mn, as viewers flocked to watch the finales of The Crown and Sex Education....
...While the fourth-quarter rate was slower than the 4.9 per cent expansion recorded in the preceding three month period, it still means the US economy beat expectations for a year when output was expected...
...Earnings per share in BNY Mellon dropped 47 per cent in the final quarter of 2023 from a year earlier, but were up 38 per cent annually....
...The proportion of lenders reporting rising defaults on mortgages declined in the final quarter of last year, according to a survey of the Bank of England published on Thursday....
...The bank’s net income in the quarter dropped to $1.5bn from $2.2bn in the same period a year earlier. For the full year, net income was down 17.6 per cent to $9.1bn. Read more here...
...Italy’s economy expanded 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, providing a badly needed boost to the eurozone after German gross domestic product shrank 0.3 per cent in the same period....
...Persimmon beat expectations for new home building last year after a “particularly strong” final quarter when falling mortgage rates helped to boost sales....
...Investors pumped $65.6bn into active ETFs in the three months to the end of March — more than 50 per cent higher than the previous record of $41bn in the fourth quarter of 2023 — as assets under management...
...The US group handed over 484,000 cars in the fourth quarter, more than the 473,000 anticipated by analysts but not enough to hold on to its title after BYD reported record sales of battery-only vehicles...
...UK business activity expanded for the fourth consecutive month in February and at the fastest pace since May 2023, according to a closely watched survey, fuelling hopes that the UK recession could already...
...It also comes at a good time just as Tencent looks for its next big hit, after reporting weaker than expected revenue growth in the fourth quarter, when its gaming sales disappointed....
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