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...In the fixed income arena, the yield on the 10-year Treasury fell as low at 3.036 per cent before pulling back to stand a shade weaker at 3.06 per cent....
...The Nasdaq Composite had traded as high as 6,634.79 before pulling back slightly to trade at 6,632.10, also 0.1 per cent higher....
...Who Beliving International Properties, an affiliate of Savills, beliving.it, tel: +39 06 456 501 12 Village Farm, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, £1.37m Where In St Hilary, a pretty village two miles from the...
...Copper, meanwhile, touched a seven-week high in London of $4,830 a tonne before closing at $4,818, up 2.3 per cent....
...Nevertheless, the dollar index, a measure of the currency against a basket of peers, was up a further 0.4 per cent at 96.06....
...The dollar was down 0.4 per cent against the Japanese currency at Y120.06. Highly-rated government bonds were also back in favour....
...(FT) Markets data 05:25 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +142.13 (+0.71%) at 20,032 Topix up +7.43 (+0.46%) at 1,634 Hang Seng up +115.62 (+0.42%) at 27,707 US markets S&P 500: +0.30% at 2,129 DJIA up...
...Who Savills, savills.com, tel: +44 292 036 8930 ——————————————- Via della Paglia, Trastevere, Rome, Italy, €4.8m Where On the Via della Paglia, in the Trastevere district of central Rome, 2km from St...
...Chile on Thursday unexpectedly cut its benchmark interest rate by 25bps to 4.75 per cent on Thursday....
...EasyJet rose 4.1 per cent to £14.06, taking its gain for the year so far to 84 per cent. JPMorgan also turned positive on Ryanair , up 3.3 per cent to €7.33 and ahead 56 per cent in the year to date....
...Bovespa down -1.20% at 54,448 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.08% at 14,794 Topix up +0.06% at 1,233 Hang Seng down -0.12% at 22,962 Shanghai Composite down -1.58% at 2,207 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.13% at 556.36...
...0.07 (0.00%) at 1,634 DJIA down -26.81 (-0.18%) at 15,092 Nasdaq up +2.21 (+0.06%) at 3,439 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -2.44 (-0.20%) at 1,231 FTSE100 up +6.78 (+0.10%) at 6,632 CAC 40 down -8.63...
...An earthquake measuring 4.9 magnitude registered by the US Geological Survey with a depth of 1km. North Korea is not prone to seismic activity....
...Shares in rival MetroPCS dropped 4.6 per cent to $11.33....
...(-2.16%) at 10,913 Nasdaq down -65.36 (-2.63%) at 2,415 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -9.85 (-1.06%) at 923.41 FTSE100 down -68.36 (-1.32%) at 5,128 CAC 40 down -45.69 (-1.51%) at 2,982 Dax down -...
...634.76 (-5.55%) at 10,810 Nasdaq down -174.72 (-6.90%) at 2,358 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -38.73 (-3.97%) at 936.29 FTSE100 down -178.04 (-3.39%) at 5,069 CAC 40 down -153.37 (-4.68%) at 3,125...
...Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +65.35 (+0.68%) at 9,644 Topix up +4.89 (+0.59%) at 830.53 Hang Seng down -5.79 (-0.03%) at 22,036 US markets S&P 500 up +11.65 (+0.92%) at 1,280 DJIA up +108.98 (+0.91%...
...Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.03% at 1,170 Europe FTSE up +0.22% at 6,031 RTF up +0.37% at 1,956 Wig Index up +0.31% at 48,634 FTSE 300 Eurotop up +0.25% at 1,124 Americas DJIA up +...
...The index closed 0.1 per cent lower at 1,013.06. French mining group Eramet lost 1.3 per cent to €235.50 while Boliden in Sweden dipped 1.4 per cent to SKr91.45....
...China Overseas Land & Investment dropped 3.1 per cent to HK$17.80 and Guangzhou R&F Properties lost 4.1 per cent to HK$15.06....
...In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 Average fell 2.3 per cent to 10,202.06 as a rally for the yen to a seven-month high against the dollar dented exporters....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3 per cent to 8,634.81 and the Nasdaq Composite index climbed 0.8 per cent to 1,830.06....
...100 Oz Gold (Dec8) up $5.70 at $810.20 10-year government bond yields (%) US 3.94 (3.94) UK 4.71 (4.71) Germany 4.06 (4.11) Japan 1.60 (1.57) Sources: FT, Reuters...
...I propose to increase the plan allocation for school education from Rs.26,800 crore in 2009-10 to Rs.31,036 crore in 2010-11....
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