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...Wagner also bought six SPG-9 grenade launchers and 180 grenades in Syria at an unspecified time, according to the report....
...Jens Stoltenberg was speaking after Nato signed a contract for “hundreds of thousands of rounds” of 155mm artillery ammunition. Here’s more on the agreement. 3....
...London’s FTSE 100 gained 1.7 per cent, led by mining companies including Anglo American and Antofagasta, which added 4.5 per cent and 2.9 per cent, respectively....
...A further $9.4bn has been spent on procurement contracts for Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, mostly on artillery ammunition, air defence interceptors, precision long-range rockets...
...The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.9 per cent, led higher by big gains for rate-sensitive real estate stocks....
...Science round-up AI dominates the science round-up this week with the UK Home Office looking to increase police use of controversial facial recognition technologies to track and find criminals....
...The US Federal Reserve remains cautious in its quest to bring inflation under control....
...France’s CAC 40 added 1.5 per cent, while London’s FTSE 100 gained 1.7 per cent. Read the full story here....
...Nationwide, Barclays and TSB followed in the footsteps of HSBC which on Wednesday cut the cost of 100 of its products....
...Science round up The UN predicted greenhouse gas emissions would rise 9 per cent by 2030 from 2010 levels, massively short of the 45 per cut needed to limit warming to the 1.5C goal set as part of the Paris...
...The US jobs markets remained robust, despite the Federal Reserve’s tightening campaign....
...London’s FTSE 100 rose 0.7 per cent....
...The average yield on US junk bonds climbed above 9.3 per cent this week, up from less than 9 per cent at the end of September and 8.5 per cent a month earlier....
...Shell reported better than expected profits of $9.6bn for the first quarter and announced a $4bn share buyback....
...FTSE 100 wealth manager St James’s Place’s business model is coming under scrutiny....
...First, higher interest rates imposed by the Federal Reserve since March of 2022 have padded the bottom lines of JPMorgan and its US banking peers Citigroup and Wells Fargo by allowing them to charge more...
...Wall Street stocks tumbled on Thursday as a round of upbeat economic data bolstered expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to aggressively lift borrowing costs to fight inflation....
...The UK’s FTSE 100 climbed 0.4 per cent. The gains on Monday for the Stoxx 600 came after two straight weeks of falls....
...The latest package will include additional ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems (Himars), tens of thousands of rounds of artillery and mortar ammunition, anti-armour systems and armoured...
...The unadjusted year-over-year price increases were 14.6 per cent and 17.9 per cent, respectively....
...That means if the fed funds rate were to rise by between 75 and 100 basis points, you’d need $1.8trn of QT to calm things down....
...Gold was released on September 9 2022....
...A: The Lion King Round 5 (Charts and Minds) Nasdaq Gold FTSE 100 General Electric shares UK 30-year gilt yield Colombia kidnapping index Rhine water levels at Kaub VIX Palm oil Round 6 (eyeShares...
...Those who receive dollars can buy naira on the black market in a gambit known as “round tripping”....
...There’s about 300,000 people who had balances of, say, $100 or more. And obviously, there’s a, you know, a number who have balances in the millions....
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