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...France’s deficit last year ended up at 5.5 per cent of GDP, worse than a 4.9 per cent forecast....
...Housebuilders registered a marginal improvement from 49.8 in February to 49.9, a 16-month high, while the commercial construction sub-index rose from 49.0 to 49.9....
...The moves came after S&P Global’s flash purchasing managers’ index for manufacturing fell to 49.9 in April, down from 51.9 in March and below economists’ forecast for a slight rise to 52....
...S&P Global’s flash eurozone composite purchasing managers’ index, which measures businesses activity across the bloc, rose to a nine-month high of 49.9, up from 49.2 a month earlier....
...It was the fastest-growing area of the construction sector in April with an index of 53.9, up from 49.9 in the previous month....
...The official manufacturing PMI released on Friday was 49.1 for February, in line with forecasts and a notch lower than January’s 49.2 reading....
...The S&P Global UK manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to a 20-month high of 50.3, up from 47.5 in February and above the earlier estimate of 49.9....
...Gold hit an intraday high of $2,265.49 earlier in Monday’s session. Gold is often viewed as a hedge against political and economic uncertainty....
...S&P Global’s flash eurozone composite purchasing managers’ index, which measures businesses’ activity across the bloc, rose to a nine-month high of 49.9, up from 49.2 a month earlier....
...Last year the Malaysian government said the Chinese carmaker Geely, which holds a 49.9 per cent stake in local partner Proton, would invest about $10bn in Malaysia’s carmaking hub in the north-western state...
...The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index is forecast to have edged up 0.4 percentage points to a reading of 49.5 from January, according to economists polled by LSEG....
...Economists say the increase was prompted by a 49 per cent boost to the minimum wage and a 3.5 per cent per cent fall in the lira against the dollar this year....
...The largest US bank reported fourth quarter net income of $9.3bn, down from $11bn a year earlier....
...The country’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.4 this month, lower than a median forecast of 49.8 in a Bloomberg poll and slightly below a reading of 49.5 in October....
...The S&P Global UK manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to a 20-month high of 50.3 in March, up from 47.5 in February and above the flash reading of 49.9....
...It fell from 16 per cent in 2014 to 9 per cent in 2018, according to the US Government Accountability Office....
...The metal was trading at $2,239.3 a troy ounce in New York on Monday, according to LSEG data, after hitting an intraday high of $2,265.49 earlier....
...The S&P Global UK manufacturing purchasing managers’ index rose to 50.3 in March, up from 47.5 in February and above the flash reading of 49.9, pushing 10 year gilts yields up 0.15 percentage points to 4.09...
...Europe’s Stoxx 600 index rose 1.6 per cent to its highest point since January 2022, while Germany’s Dax advanced 0.9 per cent to an all-time high. The FTSE 100 rose 2.2 per cent....
...At least 49 civilians were killed, triggering an international outcry and fatally wounding the credibility of her caretaker administration from the outset....
...Boluarte is deeply unpopular: her approval ratings were hovering about 9 per cent before the watch scandal emerged....
...Profit margins also rose from 12.9 per cent in 1997 to 14.9 per cent in 2021 across the economy and from 38 per cent to 49 per cent in frontier businesses....
...Schaeffler already owns 49.9 per cent of shares in Vitesco as well as 46 per cent of tyremaker Continental....
...49 in December....
...The result is a decent 9 per cent abv Riesling (£11.99 for 75cl, majestic.co.uk) and rather nettly 9.5 per cent abv Sauvignon Blanc (£9.99 for 75cl, waitrose.com) – the latter is a particular breakthrough...
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