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...A total of 277 people were queueing more than two years, down from 314, although waits of this length were meant to have been eliminated by July 2022....
...First, while it has been rising globally, it has not kept pace with improvements in overall life expectancy, according to a study of 195 countries between 1995 to 2017....
...National insurance rates for the self-employed will drop by 0.52 percentage points in the current tax year rather than the full 1.25 percentage points, resulting in temporary rates of 9.73 per cent and 2.73...
...The senior clergy’s acquiescence and co-operation helped subdue the spread of the virus — which, as of Wednesday, has caused 9,185 deaths out of 195,051 confirmed cases — analysts said....
...Acova, the Evenstads' private holding company, picked up 73,960 shares over the year, offsetting the 47,800 disposed of by Upsher-Smith....
...“It is also notable that non-commercial short gold futures contracts have surged from 73,905 in June to 195,604, a figure which is more than double the amount of bearish positions on gold a year ago and...
...0.47% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe +1.39bps at 19.22bp Markit iTraxx Europe -1.72bps at 70.55bp Markit iTraxx Xover -6.49bps at 277.89bp Markit CDX IG -1bps at 62.04bp Sources...
...The dollar index, which that tracks the US currency against a basket of its global peers, was unchanged in Asia at 100.73. Oil prices were building on Tuesday’s gains....
...Onesavings Bank surged 16.9 per cent to 277.3p after better than expected interim results from the lender reassured on growth and impairments....
...Gold was flat at $1,277.16 an ounce. In the US the S&P 500 closed flat....
...Tesco closed 1.7 per cent higher at 195.2p after Macquarie raised its target price to 250p. Sector peer Wm Morrison was down 3.3 per cent to 202.5p ahead of results due on Thursday....
...At the same time, the number of mortgage approvals fell to 71,357 from 73,195 the previous month as some of the urgency disappeared....
...unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,107 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 9,557 Currencies €/$ 1.10 (1.11) $/¥ 101.88 (102.19) £/$ 1.34 (1.37) €/£ 0.8219 (0.8155) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.32 at 48.73...
...It expects its stock of DUCs in the Bakken to rise from 135 at the end of last year to 195 by the end of 2016....
...On Friday, it was up 0.1 per cent at 97.73, but down 0.4 per cent over the past five sessions....
...The average selling price rose 4 per cent to £195,000. Housebuilders move in lockstep, so rivals will be doing similarly well....
...Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.17 at 48.64 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.01 at 44.46 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -4.10 at 1,282 Copper (Comex) down -0.02 at 2.47 10-year government bond yields US 1.73%...
...An afternoon rally meant the index pared losses to end down just 0.3 per cent or 15.73 points at 6,195.91....
...MasterCard reported net income of $1.02bn or 87 cents a share, compared with $879m or 73 cents a share a year ago. Sales climbed 13 per cent to $2.5bn....
...The CAC 40 in Paris is down 0.3 per cent or 12 points at 4,195....
...) at 2,018 DJIA up +195.10 (+1.13%) at 17,391 Nasdaq up +64.60 (+1.41%) at 4,631 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +24.38 (+1.84%) at 1,352 FTSE100 up +82.92 (+1.28%) at 6,546 CAC 40 up +91.85 (+2.22%)...
...-0.19%) at 1,973 DJIA up +5.26 (+0.03%) at 17,061 Nasdaq down -24.03 (-0.54%) at 4,416 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -5.18 (-0.38%) at 1,358 FTSE100 down -35.69 (-0.53%) at 6,710 CAC 40 down -44.73...
...Ozumba Mbadiwe has, in recent years, welcomed a Radisson Blu Anchorage (170 rooms) and a Lagos Oriental Hotel (73 rooms)....
...The S&P 500 was down 0.74 per cent to 1,845.73 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 0.94 per cent to 16,168.03. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.72 per cent to 4,277.30....
...at 1,162 Hang Seng up +259.19 (+1.21%) at 21,696 ASX 200 up +6.02 (+0.11%) at 5,344 US markets S&P 500 down -5.49 (-0.29%) at 1,867 DJIA down -28.28 (-0.17%) at 16,303 Nasdaq down -42.50 (-0.98%) at 4,277...
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