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...The number of new coronavirus cases recorded in the same period — the 24 hours to midnight on Tuesday — totaled 1,480, down from a peak of more than 16,400 daily cases at the end of January....
...In the US, the number of deaths was predicted to hit 1.2 million....
...Since then the benchmark price for hot-rolled band steel in the US, which had spiked after the tariffs were introduced, has fallen from above $1,000 a metric tonne to about $567 in November....
...Of those, 3,567 were UK-based compared with 390 in Germany and 233 in France, the two countries most actively lobbying to poach jobs and business from the UK capital....
...Recently, Calvo has noticed a growing number of Italian retirees among his restaurant patrons....
...Who Engel & Völkers Mallorca Central, tel +34 971 62 16 29 Littlecott Mill, Enford, Wiltshire, UK, £1.95m Where Close to the River Avon on the edge of Enford....
...That is just 60 per cent of Pemex’s historic peak of 1.4m b/d in 1994 and well below the system’s 1.625m b/d capacity....
...There are about 16 agreements per 1,000 staff in the UK, vs 12, five and four respectively....
...Its day-to-day staff is an earnest and elite band of 16 Ivy League-educated lawyers who labour deep inside the US Treasury, ostensibly to protect America’s economic future....
...Broker JPMorgan expects adjusted earnings per share of 9.9 cents in the year to March 2018 (from 16.2 cents in full-year 2017)....
...Just 16 per cent of Americans polled by Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University in mid-November say they expect the Republican plan to cut their taxes....
...Despite its population of 1.3bn, India has only 79,567 licensed hotel rooms — nearly the same number as Singapore, which has 63,580 but a population of 5m, according to data from the countries’ respective...
...WTI rose by $1.06 to $45.11 a barrel, retreating slightly from a high of 45.49 a barrel....
...In the US, the 10-year Treasury yield reversed an early fall to trade 1bp higher at 1.62 per cent late in the New York afternoon, having earlier dipped to 1.567 per cent, the lowest intraday point for more...
...In the final she trounced Spain’s Eva Calvo Gomez 16-7 — considered a rout in the sport’s scoring system....
...By markets close, the S&P 500 gained 1.4 per cent to 1,903.63, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.8 per cent to 16,167.23 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.1 per cent to 4,567.67....
...“Sometimes we talk about the possibility of not paying our debts — this is folly,” Mr Padilla said in the speech last week....
...Prices: Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -202.69 (-1.03%) at 19,535 Topix down -15.59 (-0.99%) at 1,567 Hang Seng up +853.04 (+3.63%) at 24,370 ASX 200 up +0.77 (+0.01%) at 5,470 US markets S&P 500 (-1.67%...
...(FT) Markets Data 05:43 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -253.11 (-1.28%) at 19,493 Topix down -21.56 (-1.35%) at 1,570 Hang Seng up +38.35 (+0.16%) at 24,567 US markets S&P 500 down -30.45 (-1.46%) at...
...The FTSE 100 rose 0.3 per cent, up 16.09 points, to 6,567.24, as BHP Billiton took on 2.9 per cent to £16.76 and Anglo American added 2.7 per cent to £13.65....
...The S&P 500 declined 0.6 per cent to 1,985.54 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4 per cent to 16,987.51. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped 0.5 per cent to 4,567.60....
...The S&P 500 climbed 0.2 per cent to 1,878.61 while the Dow was flat at 16,501.65. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite rose 0.5 per cent to 4,148.34....
...Total returns on muni bonds stood at 2.1 per cent this week, outpacing gains in higher-yielding corporate debt, according to Barclays indices....
...Earnings Cairn Energy FY -$0.29 ($0.24) Mears Group FY 28.82p (26.06p) Mecom Group FY €0.25 (€0.34) Oracle Q3 $0.70 ($0.65) T Clarke FY4.20p (4.32p) UTV Media FY 14.48p (16.92p) Trading and sales...
...The FTSE 100 nudged 0.2 per cent lower to 6,567.98 – a loss of 16 points. Prudential was one of the few companies reporting first-half results....
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