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...The net interest margin stood at 2.82 per cent, down from 2.93 per cent in the year ago quarter....
...Headline earnings from the weakest of the UK housebuilders are terrible (revenue down 52 per cent and pre-tax profit down 93 per cent to £5m) but not too surprising in context....
...This season, it accepted a one-year ban from European competition in return for the authorities ending an investigation into violations of so-called financial fair play rules between 2015 and...
...Christopher Harvey, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo, still sees room for a short-term bounce in tech shares after earnings, but was more cautious longer term....
...Citigroup’s North American branch count dropped 5 per cent in the second quarter from a year earlier, to 695, while Wells Fargo (5,977) has shut 93 branches this year alone....
...93-95 per cent....
...Just a few months ago, the fake-account scandal at Wells Fargo, the US’s second-biggest bank by deposits, not only put a spotlight on sales practices but also drew stinging condemnation of its executives...
...US equities had a volatile time in the wake of the minutes’ release, with the S&P 500 equity index ending the session fractionally firmer at 2,047, after earlier falling to 2,034.49....
...The artist’s father, Sir Sidney Kentridge (now 93), represented no fewer than three Nobel Peace Prize winners during his career — Albert Luthuli, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu — as well as the family of Black...
...The 93,800 people who work in the organisation are called partners. John Lewis, to them, is not “the company”. It is “the partnership”....
...(WSJ) Food for thought From Germany, the case for reparations Greek demands for reparations from Germany have found support from unlikely allies in Berlin....
...Shares of the largest US bank by assets fell 1 per cent to $59.16....
...“May Golden Week is off to a very strong start, with record mass market crowds in Macau over the past four days,” Wells Fargo analyst Cameron McKnight said....
...Other commercial banks also gained with Wells Fargo up 1.2 per cent to $30.62, and JPMorgan up 1.8 per cent to $38.30....
...Financials led gains, with Bank of America coming back from a 20 per cent drop on Monday to gain 16.7 per cent to $7.60....
...Financials led the risers with the S&P 500 financials index gaining 1.6 per cent, Bank of America adding 2.9 per cent to $12.98, Wells Fargo gaining 2.4 per cent to $30.82 and AIG climbing 3.3 per cent to...
...Wells Fargo shares rose 10.5 per cent to $20.09 while Capital One shares rose 17.7 per cent to $16.93....
...Shares in the carmaker advanced 16 per cent to $3.77....
...Other projects are in advanced stages of consideration. 93....
...These data were also striking in their portrayal of the Italian economy, where research and development expenditure was just 1.16 per cent of GDP....
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