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...-1 for next year’s Derby....
...Simultaneously, the number of patients being treated primarily for Covid in the capital has almost doubled from 850 on December 1 to 1,630 by December 28....
...The regional Stoxx 600 added 0.3 per cent while Italy’s MIB rose 1.1 per cent....
...Authorities attributed a further 2,196 fatalities to coronavirus, up from a one-week low on Monday of 1,235. It was the biggest one-day increase since Friday last week....
...With international tourists still absent, footfall along Chelsea’s central artery, the King’s Road, is down just 16 per cent on 2019 — a recovery rather more notable than Bond Street (-55 per cent) or London...
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...For example, the EU’s recently increased target of cutting carbon emissions by 55 per cent by 2030, compared with 1990 levels, equates to an annualised reduction of 1.98 per cent....
...In the six months to December 2020, revenues jumped 55 per cent year on year to £40.6m with ebitda up 196 per cent to £4.5m. Listed rival Naked Wines reported annual revenues of £202.9m for last year....
...It cut 1,500 jobs — fewer than the 6,000 it had forecast — in October last year....
...Across the region, about 55 per cent of students who were enrolled in school before the Covid pandemic hit have had access to distance learning, Unicef reported in November....
...In the second quarter, revenues fell 55 per cent to €8.3bn, generating a net loss of €1.4bn against income last year of €1.2bn....
...The dollar index, which measures the currency against a basket of peers, was down 0.1 per cent at 92.196. Oil prices were lower on Thursday....
...) at 1,505 FTSE100 up +10.37 (+0.14%) at 7,368 CAC 40 up +5.20 (+0.10%) at 5,180 Dax up +16.55 (+0.13%) at 12,454 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.14) $/¥ 113.14 (113.25) £/$ 1.29 (1.29) €/£ 0.8756 (0.8775) Commodities...
...300 up +9.99 (+0.68%) at 1,489 FTSE100 up +49.18 (+0.67%) at 7,433 CAC 40 up +36.36 (+0.71%) at 5,177 Dax up +86.82 (+0.71%) at 12,264 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.18) $/¥ 109.86 (110.18) £/$ 1.29 (1.29) €/£...
...On December 12 1980, an initial public offering of shares in Apple Inc valued the maker of beige desktop computers at $1.7bn....
...Gold was up 0.4 per cent at $1,284 an ounce. Intraday US index futures suggest the S&P 500 will shed 2.5 points to 2,433.6, when trading gets under way later in New York....
...Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.40 at 48.46 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.31 at 46.03 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -2.50 at 1,288 Copper (Comex) down 0.00 at 2.55 10-year government bond yields (%) US...
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...($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.11 at 55.90 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.07 at 52.94 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 1,199 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 2.66 10-year government bond yields (%) US...
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...Your total tax bill goes up from £26,133 to £34,533, or an overall rate of 26.1 per cent to one of 31 per cent....
...The FTSE 100 added 1.5 per cent, up 103.27 points to 6,813.55, as Anglo American rose 5.7 per cent to 860.9p and Rio Tinto rose 3.5 per cent to £23.59....
...At the close, the S&P 500 had risen 1.7 per cent to 1,895.58, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had gained 1.4 per cent to 16,196.41 and the Nasdaq Composite added 2.3 per cent to 4,435.96....
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