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...Italy plans to double its stimulus to €7.5bn, breaking budget deficit commitments, as Europe’s largest outbreak leapt to more than 3,800 cases and 148 deaths....
...In March, its cash balance totalled $85.8m, down from $148.8m just after leaving bankruptcy, according to court filings....
...According to Kelley Blue Book data in the US, the average auction price for affected VW cars from 2009 to 2015 fell below $10,000 last month, down from $13,148 in August....
...With the better GDP data, the dollar index, a measure of the US currency versus a basket of peers, was up 0.9 per cent on Friday to 98.148, but was flat this morning....
...Here’s an example of how the distribution can change from week-to-week by way of a chart comparing the distribution on October 2 and that on October 12, (when the skew index was 115.75 and 148.92 respectively...
...But for most participants it was Ms Yellen’s testimony to the House Financial Services Committee that took centre stage....
...(Financial Times) US jobs report shows sluggish growth: “Bond yields fell sharply after weak jobs growth of 148,000 in September led investors to predict more asset purchases by the US Federal Reserve.”...
...at 15,619 S&P 500 down -0.49% at 1,763 Bovespa down -0.67% at 54,173 Asia Nikkei 225 down -0.28% at 14,462 Topix up +0.01% at 1,205 Hang Seng down -0.66% at 23,150 Shanghai Composite down -0.57% at 2,148...
...-1.32 (-0.11%) at 1,182 Hang Seng down -148.82 (-0.64%) at 23,041 US markets S&P 500 up +6.29 (+0.36%) at 1,768 DJIA up +23.57 (+0.15%) at 15,639 Nasdaq up +14.55 (+0.37%) at 3,937 European markets Eurofirst...
...(Financial Times) (FT Alphaville) “U.S....
...Global inflows into ETFs (funds and products) reached $148.5bn in the first seven months of the year, up 13.8 per cent compared with the same period in 2012, according to ETFGI, a consultancy....
...NYSE responded by reviewing trades in 148 stocks and said no additional stocks would be cancelled and that the decision is not subject to appeal....
...In the 12 months to December 31, Lucid had revenues of $148.9m and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of $113.4m....
...(Financial Times) “Tiger Asia Management LLC, the $1.2 billion New York-based hedge fund run by Bill Hwang, said it’s returning outside capital to investors by the end of the month amid a three-year probe...
...Less than a week later, Ms Berner is out, replaced by her chief financial officer, Tom Williams....
...Vanguard, which is synonymous with indexing and holds the top-three spot in global ETFs with $148.5bn under management at the end of 2010, is being careful about its entry to the European ETF market....
...The S&P 500 closed up 2.1 per cent to 1,148.67, up 2 per cent over the week, its fourth successive weekly gain....
...However, these declines, noted Greenwich, were more than offset by increases in trading volumes among large companies and other financial institutions, which pushed the size of the FX market to record levels...
...At the same time, however, the number of homes sold fell for the third year in a row, to 2,867 from 3,148 the previous year – a 9 per cent drop. So far this year, the market has deteriorated further....
...KSK had a market value of £148.8m at the close....
...The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite shot up 1 per cent to 2,148.31, buoyed by news that PeopleSoft had agreed to a multi-billion dollar takeover by Oracle, its business software rival....
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