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...The Lloyds share price has fallen by 17% over the past 17 days; it is now the worst performing FTSE 100 bank share for 2020 year-to-date (Fig 2, page 2)....
...The increases were effective as of July 1 and in most cases were more than 9 per cent — well above the rate of inflation in the US, which is running at about 2 per cent....
...The firm’s net profit after tax jumped 263 per cent to $3.2bn in the 12 months to the end of June 2019, enabling it to pay a dividend of A$1.14 ($0.77) for the full year....
...Total company revenue fell 17 per cent to $263.6m, missing the consensus estimate of $270.1m....
...The Seventeen Islands Marine Park in eastern Indonesia isn’t a national park per se, nor does it consist of 17 islands....
...Excavations in the Rising Star cave system, about 30 miles north-west of Johannesburg, uncovered more than 1,500 fossils from at least 18 individuals, infants to adults, showing a unique blend of primitive...
...The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says Colombia will need $1.6bn a year to respond to the influx....
...£13,736 to £17,465....
...In the 190-unit Canaletto Tower on City Road, where Angel merges with Hoxton, Foxtons is marketing a two-bedroom apartment for £1.2m — a 17 per cent reduction on its original listing price of £1.45m in November...
...Argentina beat Nigeria 2-1 in the youth World Cup final, and their centre-forward was a child with a flowerpot haircut who looked as if he’d won a competition to join the team for a day....
...If I have time off, I will always pop into Café de Flore for breakfast, or to meet friends for an aperitif....
...A mixed wider market left the FTSE 100 little changed with the index drifting 0.1 per cent lower, or 8.05 points, to 7,263.90....
...Aveva closed 2.7 per cent lower at £20.20, which gave it a market value of £1.3bn or about 35 times earnings....
...The yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury was up 4.4 basis points in Asia at 2.263 per cent. The dollar held at eight-month lows in Asian trading....
...J Sainsbury led the supermarkets higher, up 1.3 per cent to 263.6p, after Kantar four-week industry data showed its sales improving....
...Earnings updates dominated the wider market and pulled the FTSE 100 flat, with the index up 0.1 per cent or 10.44 points at 7,263.44....
...($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.62 at 55.51 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.58 at 52.28 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +13.00 at 1,263 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 2.66 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.31% Germany...
...The FTSE 250 company reported pre-tax profits of £50.1m in the year to September 30, down 17.9 per cent from £61m the previous year....
...Silver light bathes the fields as I approach Maranello, a town of 17,000 people....
...During the first six months of 2016, Tesla sold 1,263 Model S cars in the UK and 1,248 in Norway. It is also hoping to break into the mass market with its “affordable” Model 3 car....
...European markets Eurofirst 300 up +2.40 (+0.16%) at 1,459 FTSE100 up +10.44 (+0.14%) at 7,263 CAC 40 up +13.40 (+0.28%) at 4,859 Dax up +11.74 (+0.10%) at 11,834 Currencies €/$ 1.05 (1.06) $/¥ 113.56...
...Visitors to the island increased by 63 per cent on the year to 1.42m in 2016....
...at 49.13 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -5.30 at 1,263 Copper (Comex) down 0.00 at 2.13 10-year government bond yields (%) US 1.70% UK 1.32% Germany 0.06% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe...
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