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...Sterling was down 0.1 per cent against the dollar at $1.2705....
...The benchmark S&P 500 slipped 1.2 per cent, with every sector in the negatives. Rate sensitive real estate stocks were the worst performers, followed by the tech sector....
...It has added more than 58 per cent since January 1. Japan’s Topix shed 0.3 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....
...per cent higher at $2,562 a tonne....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, was down 1.2 per cent at $82.58 a barrel in afternoon trading in New York. West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, was down 1.2 per cent to $77.02 a barrel....
...The bank’s net interest income for the year rose 49 per cent from 2022, to €2.3bn, lifted by rising central bank interest rates....
...The UK benchmark closed 0.6 per cent higher on Friday and now sits about 1 per cent below its record closing high from 13 months ago....
...BRK 0-1 HMRC: BlackRock has lost an appeal relating to UK tax it sought to reclaim from HM Revenue & Customs on its $13.5bn acquisition of Barclays Global Investors back in 2009....
...Total sales for the full year rose 19.6 per cent to £1.8bn, while like-for-like sales in company-managed stores increased by 13.7 per cent compared with 2022....
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...The UK PMI data was much stronger than the 46.1 for the eurozone, also published on Tuesday, suggesting British factories are recovering faster than those on the continent....
...US gross domestic product would expand by 2.1 per cent this year, officials predicted, compared with their previous forecast of 1.4 per cent....
...The charities say the policy has failed to increase fairness for working families since more than half — or 58 per cent — of those affected have parents who are already in work....
...The yield on interest rate sensitive 2-year Bunds - a benchmark for the eurozone - trimmed earlier declines to remain 0.09 percentage points lower at 2.58 per cent....
...A CRH insider has snapped up $2.5mn (£1.9mn) in shares after the dual-listed FTSE 100 building materials supplier posted a jump in earnings and pre-tax profit in its full-year results....
...per cent range, down from previous estimates of 1-2 per cent....
...Masashi Akutsu, chief Japan equity strategist at Bank of America, on Monday raised his year-end forecasts to 41,000 for the Nikkei and 2,850 for the Topix, compared with 39,098.68 and 2,660.71, respectively...
...Moody’s downgraded state-backed developer Vanke’s offshore bonds earlier in the week but its Hong Kong shares have rallied 13.2 per cent since Monday....
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...Sales of these funds grew by 56 per cent and 58 per cent month-on-month respectively....
...In the West Bank — parts of which are run by Fatah, a rival of Hamas, which controls the Gaza strip — 58 had died, and more than 1,250 had been injured, the ministry said....
...The bank trimmed the overall bonus pool by 3 per cent, from £1.8bn to £1.75bn, which it blamed on “the lower year-on-year financial outcomes in some business areas”....
...The Topix index rose 2.1 per cent to its highest level in 34 years, boosted by a 13.1 per cent gain for semiconductor group Tokyo Electron, which raised its revenue and profit guidance....
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