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...EY handed partners an average of £761,000, while PwC and Deloitte paid out £906,000 and £1.06mn respectively....
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...House prices dipped 0.2 per cent in the year to February, better than the 1.3 per cent fall in January, putting the average cost of a property at £281,000....
...During its latest financial year to June 2023, revenues at EY’s UK business rose 16 per cent to £3.76bn, while average partner pay fell 5 per cent to £761,000....
...The figure was slightly higher than the 3.1 per cent forecast by economists polled by Reuters and the Bank of England and above the BoE’s 2 per cent target....
...EY’s partners remain the third-best paid of the Big Four firms in the UK, where their Deloitte counterparts shared average payouts of £1.06mn this year while PwC’s leaders earned £906,000....
...It also accounts for 16 per cent of total state spending and is equivalent to 6 per cent of Russia’s gross domestic product....
...Sterling fell slightly following Ramsden’s speech, trading 0.4 per cent lower against the US dollar at $1.239....
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...Tesco: Shares in the UK grocery chain retreated 3.5 per cent on Thursday, having risen 2.5 per cent in the previous session after it posted a 7.2 per cent increase in sales for the year to February and announced...
...The drop in wage growth expectations will support the view that the central bank will start reducing rates from a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent in the summer....
...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....
...Brent crude — the international benchmark — rose 2 per cent to $83.59 a barrel. The US equivalent West Texas Intermediate was up 2.1 per cent at $79.16 a barrel....
...of 3.2 per cent....
...Total assets in Taiwan-listed ETFs jumped 64 per cent to NT$3.85bn by end-2023 from NT$2.34bn the year before....
...Sterling extended early losses against the dollar to trade down 0.4 per cent on the day at $1.273 after the Bank of England held rates at a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent for the fifth consecutive meeting...
...Meanwhile, international oil benchmark Brent crude rose 2.6 per cent to $84.16 a barrel, its highest settlement price since early November....
...The gains mean the FTSE 100 has risen 3.9 per cent since the start of the year, outperforming the Nasdaq Composite, which is up 2.1 per cent....
...UK growth will pick up to 1.5 per cent in 2025, according to the IMF, but that is also 0.1 percentage point weaker than the fund’s January outlook....
...He also said more than 2,100 UNRWA workers were members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad....
...The company said it wanted to raise about €1.25bn through a primary offering, followed by a “larger” secondary share sale that would take the total sum raised to more than €2.5bn....
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...The Magnificent Seven stocks, excluding Apple and Tesla, advanced on the day, with Amazon’s 2.1 per cent gain the best performer....
...The so-called Magnificent Seven stocks, excluding Apple and Tesla, advanced on the day, with Amazon’s 2.1 per cent gain the best performer....
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