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...The top shelf The Grill the seagram building, 99 East 52nd Street, New York, NY 10022 Good for: Revelling in mid-century modern glamour Not so good for: Your budget FYI: Martini, $26....
...The wallet was created by Nod Labs who are a team based in Silicon Valley in the United States....
...Why else would retail sales in the UK have risen 5.8 per cent year-on-year in October? Quite. So no Humble....
...But the book I bought for the plane cost £8.99, the same as it would at any WHSmith. And my Boots’ own-brand paracetamol was the usual knockdown price of 39p....
...We will update estimates in due course, for this and for currency....
...Nigeria’s dependence on oil as a source of foreign currency earnings....
...In a trading update on Wednesday, FTSE-250 listed Cineworld said its full-year revenues climbed 12.6 per cent in the 12 months to the end of December and 8.3 per cent on a constant currency basis....
...Following the launch of Nintendo’s latest hand-held technology in March 2017, both the UK and Spanish video games markets have experienced growth, with total sales in the second half up 8.8 per cent and...
...By contrast, Hiscox London Market income was down 8.6 per cent in constant currency terms, to £157.7m....
...Singapore’s Straits Times was up 0.8 per cent, but major markets elsewhere around Asia were shut for the mid-autumn festival public holiday....
...Despite the big rise in profits in the first quarter, the bank’s annualized return on equity came to 8.7 per cent – its fourth sub-10 per cent reading in a row....
...United States of Japan, by Peter Tieryas, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99/$14.99 Sometimes you just feel the need for a story about giant robots, virtual reality and sumo wrestlers....
...Stronger in the early morning, then weaker. Now it’s flat at ¥102 per dollar. Hit a high of ¥99.02 on Friday....
...The Stoxx and S&P lost 0.8 per cent and 1.2 per cent respectively in the previous session as investors were rattled by action in two closely watched proxies of risk appetite: oil and the yen....
...A 0.8 per cent rise for sterling to $1.4356 helped push the dollar index down 0.3 per cent to 99.05....
...This would be well below the 1.3 per cent jump a year earlier, bringing the annual rate of increase down to 3.0 per cent from 3.8 per cent in October....
...+13.51 (+0.07%) at 18,312 Nasdaq down -8.40 (-0.17%) at 5,070 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +26.08 (+1.65%) at 1,606 FTSE100 up +26.23 (+0.38%) at 6,995 CAC 40 up +104.99 (+2.09%) at 5,117 Dax up...
...In November 2012, HP took an $8.8bn writedown on Autonomy, which it acquired the previous year. Some $5.5bn of that was due to alleged “accounting misrepresentations”....
...Bank , the country’s second-largest lender, as a clearing bank in London for the Chinese currency....
...The stock advanced 12 percent to HK$13.20 at 11:59 a.m in Hong Kong. Shares of China Everbright Bank, the banking unit, jumped as much as 6.8 percent in Shanghai and 4.4 percent in Hong Kong....
...to get $1 billion more for NY state fund (Reuters) Down and out in California (WSJ) OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +38.95 (+0.25%) at 15,685 Topix up +0.69 (+0.05%) at 1,293 Hang Seng down...
...Volatility, as measured by the CBOE Vix index, fell 6.8 per cent. Even Russia’s Micex snapped a six-day run of losses, gaining 1.6 per cent....
...¥ 102.30 (102.23) £/$ 1.65 (1.65) €/£ 0.8385 (0.8387) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.13 at 106.68 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.02 at 99.58 100 Oz Gold (Comex) at 1,311 Copper (Comex) at 2.99...
...(-0.28%) at 4,225 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -0.99 (-0.07%) at 1,378 FTSE100 up +6.28 (+0.09%) at 6,851 CAC 40 up +1.88 (+0.04%) at 4,532 Dax down -1.65 (-0.02%) at 9,939 Currencies €/$ 1.36...
...The price of copper traded in New York jumped as much as 6 cents per pound to $3.07 following the 8.2 magnitude earthquake, which struck at 9pm local time....
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