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...Even excluding these, orders still fell 2.1 per cent in January. January’s decline was almost double the 6 per cent fall forecast by economists in a Reuters poll....
...This comes as average UK house prices decreased 0.2 per cent in the year to February to £281,000, having fallen 1.3 per cent in January....
...UK headline inflation eased from a 42-year high of 11.1 per cent in October 2022 to 4 per cent in January as the impact of the surge in food and energy costs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine faded....
...Universal Music, which distributes Swift’s music and receives a percentage of her album sales, reported €1.3bn in net income on €11.1bn in revenue last year....
...Lloyds said pre-tax profits fell year on year to £1.6bn from £2.3bn, broadly in line with analysts’ expectations. Quarterly revenues dropped to £4.2bn, just below market expectations of £4.3bn....
...The bank’s asset management arm boasted a 44.2 per cent market share in Europe at the end of March, according to figures from Morningstar, far ahead of Pimco, with 14.6 per cent and Fidelity with 11.1 per...
...Japan’s defence spending rose 11 per cent to $50bn, while Taiwan’s defence spending rose 11 per cent to $17bn....
...Wednesday’s figures identified London as the region with the most expensive rents, at an average of more than £2,000 a month, and the fastest rent rises, at 11.2 per cent a year....
...Accenture now expects full-year revenue growth in a range of 1 to 3 per cent, compared with previous estimates of 2 to 5 per cent....
...It oversees 11 different businesses and its market value has nearly tripled to some $2.9bn in five years....
...US stocks shrugged off the change in rate expectations, with the blue-chip S&P 500 ending the day up 1.1 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite rising 1.2 per cent....
...Services output grew 0.1 per cent in February, while production — including manufacturing, utilities and mining — increased 1.1 per cent. Construction output fell 1.9 per cent....
...Pointing to an “uncertain macro environment”, the New York-listed group said on Thursday that its full-year revenues would grow between 1 and 3 per cent, below an earlier prediction of 2 to 5 per cent, underlining...
...It has also announced acquisitions of Chinese oncology company Gracell for $1bn and vaccine maker Icosavax for $1.1bn in December. Shares in AstraZeneca dipped 1.1 per cent in morning trading....
...Headline inflation stood at 4 per cent in January, unchanged from December but well below a 42-year high of 11.1 per cent in October 2022....
...“For table wines that are stored in tanks for freshness and then bottled to order, the alcohol content might fluctuate, say, from 11.2 per cent to 11.8 per cent over a single year, which will make pricing...
...Retail free cash flow, which was down slightly at £2.06bn this time around, is expected to come within the target range of £1.4bn-£1.8bn....
...The international oil benchmark fell 2.1 per cent to $77.11 a barrel, while WTI, the US equivalent, fell 2.3 per cent to $72.08 a barrel....
...Interest rate sensitive 2-year gilt yields dropped from 4.14 per cent ahead of the announcement to 4.12 per cent, down 0.11 percentage points on the day....
...The city’s benchmark Hang Seng index climbed 1.3 per cent, with solar glass manufacturing group Xinyi Solar recording its eighth consecutive day of gains and rising 11 per cent....
...The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 was down 0.2 per cent, France’s CAC 40 fell 0.1 per cent, while Germany’s Dax gained 0.1 per cent....
...It prioritises Scope 1 and 2 emissions because it is mandatory to report these, so data is both readily available and comparable....
...France’s Thales has reported an 11 per cent jump in annual operating profit to €2.1bn, exceeding the level seen before the pandemic for the first time since 2019 as it benefits from a recovery in civil aviation...
...In their second estimate of US GDP growth in 2024, the CEOs surveyed by the BRT projected growth of 2.1 per cent, up from their first estimate of 1.9 per cent....
...That the US pension system is a complicated failure (“Move to solve ‘Rubik’s Cube’ of US pensions”, Report, April 1) is beyond dispute....
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