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...at 48.45 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -1.00 at 1,285 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 2.94 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.20% Germany 0.42% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe...
...Nasdaq up +72.07 (+1.13%) at 6,432 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +15.43 (+1.05%) at 1,491 FTSE100 up +35.99 (+0.49%) at 7,414 CAC 40 up +63.22 (+1.24%) at 5,177 Dax up +171.26 (+1.39%) at 12,475 Currencies...
...The dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, was up 0.1 per cent at 97.258 in Asia having fallen to a five-and-a-half-month low on Friday as James Bullard of the St Louis...
...2008....
...Wednesday 22:00 GMT US and European stocks coasted lower as the dollar hit a 13-year high and bond yields eased off multi-month peaks, as investors reined in bets that US President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge...
...A slide in the US dollar as investors delayed rate rise expectations and a sharp jump in oil prices set most markets up for gains....
...Tuesday 21:00 GMT....
...Friday 21:00 GMT. US stocks had their worst day since late September, capping off a choppy week in which oil prices fell nearly 12 per cent to a seven-year low....
...The report will examine the role played by former chief executives James Crosby and Andy Hornby, alongside ex-chairman Lord Stevenson, in the run up to the bank’s collapse in 2008....
...) at 4,815 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 11,040 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 122.85 (122.71) £/$ 1.59 (1.59) €/£ 0.7167 (0.7152) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.46 at 63.48 Light Crude (Nymex...
...(0.00%) at 4,808 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 11,058 Currencies €/$ 1.11 (1.11) $/¥ 122.59 (122.75) £/$ 1.56 (1.56) €/£ 0.71 (0.706) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.63 at 59.69 Light Crude...
...China’s official purchasing managers’ index for the non-manufacturing sector fell from 53.4 in April to 53.2, the lowest since December 2008....
...Friday 21:00 BST....
...in investment and corporate banking....
..., to 3.65 per cent, and reportedly intervened in the currency markets to support the renminbi....
...Investors in Hanergy Thin Film and two units of Goldin are looking at $36bn in combined paper losses....
...Friday 21:00 GMT. US and European equities fell sharply, shrugging off a positive Asian session, as the rout in crude oil prices showed no sign of abating....
...markets S&P 500 up +24.00 (+1.29%) at 1,887 DJIA up +263.17 (+1.63%) at 16,380 Nasdaq up +41.05 (+0.97%) at 4,258 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +34.39 (+2.76%) at 1,280 FTSE100 up +114.38 (+1.85%)...
...(+0.24%) at 5,531 US markets S&P 500 up +3.22 (+0.17%) at 1,879 DJIA unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 16,502 Nasdaq up +21.37 (+0.52%) at 4,148 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +4.43 (+0.33%) at 1,343 FTSE100...
...(Financial Times) And a goodbye to Skip McGee — he “brokered Barclays’ acquisition of Lehman’s US business at the height of the financial crisis in 2008, lived for the big deals and fought for higher pay...
...Markets: “Asian stocks outside Japan rose and silver headed for its longest streak of gains since March 2008....
...GM last paid a dividend on its common stock in May 2008.”...
...crisis in 2008....
...The amount of assets held by US business development companies (BDCs), specialist finance companies and real estate investment trusts (Reits) has jumped from $779bn in 2008 to $1.22tn in the second quarter...
...the last centre-left government in 2008....
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