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...SVB can borrow against the value of its bond portfolio to raise liquidity if required: Becker said it had borrowed $13.5bn this way in the first nine months of 2022....
...“We think the market has been too aggressive at the beginning of January by pricing in 1.5 per cent of interest rate cuts by the turn of 2025,” said McManus....
...The central bank said on Wednesday that following a review of its “more complex remuneration arrangements” related to how leave and days off were calculated, it had begun the process of paying back 1,173...
...At the heart of the debate is Norway’s wealth tax which is levied on all net fortunes greater than NKr1.7mn ($173,000) at a rate of 1.1 per cent for the richest....
...The yield on Germany’s 10-year Bund, a barometer for debt costs in the eurozone, fell 0.13 percentage points to 1.12 per cent as economic uncertainty drove demand for the low-risk asset....
...Japan’s benchmark Topix was 1.4 per cent higher while Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index climbed 0.3 per cent. Read more about market movements....
...It was also the third consecutive day that deaths topped 1,000....
...In the summers of 2020 and 2019, the most common trip duration was seven to 13 days....
...By contrast, operating costs rose by 13% YoY to £224.7m; a cost:income ratio of 147%....
...The Cboe’s volatility index, or Vix, ended 1.2 points lower at 13.85, reversing an advance earlier in the session. It still sits below its long term average of roughly 20....
..., close to -1.4% in 2019, and given the ~13% share of China’s exports in GDP in value added terms, the slowdown of export growth should have shaved 1.8 percentage points off China’s real GDP growth in Q1...
...Dave Lee in San Francisco 13....
...We note that 1H20 cash will not yet reflect the £112m of preference shares being redeemed on 1 July....
...For the sake of reference, a retrospective cohort of 173 severepatients from China (with 38% mechanically ventilated; Guan et al....
...The money investors have ploughed into ETFs helped drive the 14 per cent rise in the gold price from its most recent low in August of $1,173 an ounce, as markets grew increasingly anxious about the health...
...The US maker of spices, herbs and flavourings saw sales rise 13.5 per cent to $1.3bn in the three months to end of August, helped by strong demand in the US and China....
...Brent crude futures settled at $71.43 a barrel, up 1 per cent, while US West Texas Intermediate crude was 0.7 per cent higher in late trade at $65.49. Gold was down $1 at $1,173 an ounce....
...That dropped to 173,600 the following year, while in 2017-18 the figure was just over 140,000. Spending on legal aid fell from £2.5bn in real terms in 2010-11 to £1.55bn in 2016-17....
...His comments come in response to an uproar over the identical fake-news-bashing script that the rightwing, Trump-supporting company had reporters working at its 173 local television stations read, and which...
...Elsewhere, so-called haven assets advanced, with the yield on the US 10-year, which moves inversely to price, sliding 1.2 basis points to 2.173 per cent....
...Shortly after the opening bell in New York, the S&P 500 slipped 0.06 per cent to 2,425.9, the Nasdaq Composite edged 0.07 per cent lower to 6,173.1 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.03 per cent...
...As a result, the average net return of passive equity funds at 14.1 per cent was better than that produced by the average active equity fund....
...Of those people in the latest figures, more than 1,500 had been waiting over a year — though NHS England said the figure had dropped by nearly 13,000 since 2011....
...The 10-year anniversary handset is in short supply and demand is high despite its $1,000 price tag....
...Hang Seng up +173.05 (+0.64%) at 27,348 US markets S&P 500 down -1.23 (-0.05%) at 2,465 DJIA up +5.28 (+0.02%) at 21,999 Nasdaq down -7.22 (-0.11%) at 6,333 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +1.36 (+0.09%...
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