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...Coca paste — another extract of the coca leaf needed to make cocaine — has fallen from about 4mn pesos ($1,013) per kilo in 2017 to about 2.4mn pesos....
...Her memorable encounter with former British champion Peter Lee, aged 79, attracted thousands of chess.com viewers....
...Keep - 2/10 (5th review). Use or keep - 7/15....
...Each one is framed in polished aluminium. tanyaling.com Great Dixter symposium, £2,950, and planting spade, £79.95The intense, week-long deep dive into gardening at Great Dixter is forever at the top of...
...The S&P 500 reversed its initial decline and rallied to close 1.2 per cent higher for its biggest one-day jump since the end of August. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.6 per cent....
...Vanguard passed 97 per cent of the revenue to its investors in the period from February 2022 to June 2023, ahead of 79.1 per cent for SSGA, 77 per cent for Invesco and 74.5 per cent for BlackRock/iShares...
...Diluted earnings per share were $1.79 in the first quarter, which was above analysts’ expectations for earnings of $1.47 per share and a loss of $1.89 in the same quarter a year ago....
...Its UK operating profit fell 79 per cent to £60mn in 2021 on sales of £13.6bn, its last published results, and its operating margin was 0.4 per cent compared with Tesco’s adjusted operating margin of 4.6...
...An easy access savings account that paid 2.49 per cent on July 6 is now paying 2.6 per cent....
...The cost of in groceries crept up in May after a couple of months of declines, but only rose about 0.1 per cent. Egg prices slid 13 per cent (!)...
...The US-based construction equipment maker reported fourth-quarter profit rose to $2.79 per share, missing analyst expectations for earnings of $3.79 per share and falling $1.12 below earnings from the same...
...As a result, revenue at the division fell by 2 per cent to £2.6bn....
...The yield on the 10-year Treasury leapt 0.13 percentage points to 3.53 per cent, and the rate-sensitive two-year Treasury jumped 0.2 percentage points to 4.29 per cent....
...The bank made a return on tangible equity (Rote), a key profitability metric, of 10.4 per cent for the year, down from 13.1 per cent in 2021....
...Confession time: I am one of those infuriating customers — apparently despised by Italian small business owners — who pays by card even for my €1.70 morning cappuccino....
...Its headcount has soared from 40 in 2015 to 2,500 today. Last year, it opened offices in New York, London and Hong Kong....
...Boeing shares fell 8.8 per cent to $133.79 in New York. The loss was driven by $2.8bn in charges in its defence business, including on Air Force One and the troubled KC-46A refuelling tanker....
...Nominations end at 2pm today. 2....
...According to the Messi vs Ronaldo app, he has 791 career goals at an average of 0.79 a match; Ronaldo has 819 goals but from 1,145 games so only averages 0.72....
...The high-profile investor still holds more than 1.6mn shares, or 1.7 per cent of the company, according to his most recent filing in mid-June, down from more than 2.7mn at the time of F45’s float last year...
...Lyft said it had 25 per cent more drivers on its platform than a year ago, and average pick-up times were within 1-2 minutes of pre-Covid levels....
...But they remain well below the 79.8mn tickets sold and the $1.2bn revenue generated in the first quarter of 2019....
...A study last year by centre-right think-tank Policy Exchange, based on polling by YouGov, found “the British public leans approximately 2 to 1 against the ‘cultural leftist’ position, or ‘woke’, position...
...It was £79 a bottle and I see they’re now asking £106, unfortunately....
...Since this also rose at an annual rate of 9.1 per cent in the second quarter, it would not make a lot of difference....
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