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...Just three items — fuel bills, petrol and second-hand cars — account for 1.9 percentage points of the 5.4 per cent CPI inflation we saw in December. There’s a simple reason for this....
...Analysts at Goldman Sachs forecast revenues of €44.9bn and earnings per share of 4 cents in 2021, compared with €43.7 and 3 cents in 2019....
...Policy numbers rose by 43 per cent in the second quarter of 2018, but by the first quarter of this year that growth rate had slipped to 13 per cent....
...Slightly worse than expected management fees of €265mn (vs €268mn in consensus) also contributed. Effective management margin came in at 1.43%, up from 1.40% at the end of FY19....
...Our MTI also remains deep in buy territory at -1.9SD....
...Current management guidance is for AstraZeneca to hit net cash positive by 2024, by which time the peripatetic Mr Soriot will be 161 in CEO years....
...As previously disclosed, group revenue in the financial year fell 1.5% yoy to £11.51bn and also declined 1.5% on a like-for-like (LFL) basis....
...Pre-tax profit was further impacted by a €1.3bn exceptional charge from ineffective fuel and FX hedges on account of over-hedging for the whole of 2020....
...Gross capex guidance for FY20 is reduced from £1.43-1.60bn to £1.39-1.45bn and with disposals at £270m from £160-190m, net capex guidance is reduced from £1.27-1.41bn to £1.12-1.18bn....
...The number of customers who opened checking accounts in February fell 43 per cent from a year ago....
...Intraday In the US, index futures suggest the S&P 500 will shed 5.5 points to 2,384, when trading gets under way later in New York....
...furthest in this so far — just 43 per cent of its revenues now come from insurance....
...In the past, evidence from tribunals shows that accounts have sometimes taken five years to arrive....
...Unlike North American peers, Fresnillo, Centamin and Randgold Resources all have strong balance sheets and enough flexibility in their business plans to cope with gold below $1,100 an ounce, RBC said....
...And the O2O site further enhanced this dominant position in April 2015, by taking a 43 per cent stake in competitor Ganji....
...Sam Hill, senior UK economist at RBC Capital Markets, said the “disappointing” start to the year meant it was important for deficit hawks to see strong numbers in July – typically the second highest month...
...The two units account for more than half of Williams-Sonoma sales....
...Index down -0.16% at 1,007 Europe FTSE down -0.47% at 6,275 RTS down -1.59% at 1,335 Warsaw Wig down -1.26% at 44,161 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -0.93% at 1,155 Americas DJIA up +1.08% at 14,757 S&P 500 up...
...The Fed said on Wednesday that some 43 per cent of its new Treasury purchases will be in the four- to seven-year sector and 23 per cent in seven- to 10-years....
...In the Budget for 2010-11, I have provided Rs.1,73,552 crore, which accounts for over 46 per cent of the total plan allocations, for infrastructure development in the country. 56....
...However, the number of accounts in arrears rose to 9.2 per cent of assets under management compared with 7.3 per cent in November and this contributed to an increase in the bad debt charge to £11.3m compared...
...defending barriers such as $1.20 and $1.23 in euro-dollar with large sums of cash....
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