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...Thursday Monetary policy Reserve Bank of South Africa 13:00 GMT The central bank kept interest rates at 6.5 per cent at its last policy meeting and presented a gloomier outlook for growth and inflation...
...Futures tip both the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 to open flat....
...Markets tumble, insurrections break out, but Compass ploughs on regardless....
...100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +3.00 at 1,301 Copper (Comex) at 3.06 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.71% UK 2.67% Germany 1.54% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe +0.15bps at 36.35bp...
...(Financial Times) Bad loan writedowns soar at China banks: In the latest indication of the turbulence now buffeting China’s financial system, the five biggest Chinese banks, which account for more than...
...Top of the bank’s agenda is a home loans crisis, which has seen almost one in four mortgage accounts get into trouble....
...But the government faces more than 100 lawsuits in the US alone, and other legal action in Europe, preventing it from tapping international capital markets for fear of assets issued being seized....
...Traders think Urbium’s share price could to to £10.00....
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