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...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....
...Morgan Stanley analysts recently noted that hedge funds participate in a record-smashing 1,377 private market deals last year, more twice the then-record 2020 level, and three times 2019’s activity....
...Revenue in the six months to June was £377,000, up from £316,000 a year earlier, while its new net loss was broadly flat at £1.2m. It raised £5m in June last year via a placing at 5p a share....
...In the same year, only 377,852 of the 2.1m eligible employees joined the 510 SAYE schemes available....
...IAG pared early losses of above 2 per cent to close down 0.8 per cent at 585.5p while Ryanair fell 1.1 per cent to €17.85....
...(+1.21%) at 1,509 FTSE100 up +64.37 (+0.88%) at 7,377 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,196 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,475 Currencies €/$ 1.14 (1.14) $/¥ 113.02 (113.37) £/$ 1.30 (1.29) €/£ 0.8764...
...Mondi hit a record high, up 1.5 per cent to £17.68, after Merrill Lynch added the paper maker to its “buy” list....
...Money borrowed at 2.5 per cent or so is typically going into property yielding 6-8 per cent or more....
...Gold was off 0.4 per cent at $1,228.94 per ounce. Intraday In the US index futures suggest the S&P 500 will add 4 points to 2,377, when trading gets under way later in New York....
...) at 17,177 Topix up +15.76 (+1.17%) at 1,363 Hang Seng up +188.35 (+0.83%) at 22,831 US markets S&P 500 down -3.48 (-0.17%) at 2,085 DJIA down -42.39 (-0.24%) at 17,888 Nasdaq down -12.04 (-0.24%) at 5,046...
...Ukip was oscillating between 1 and 2 per cent in opinion polls. But for the 37-year-old Slivnik, who had grown up under communism, it was a libertarian dream — a counter to the “totalitarian” EU....
...Markets Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +377.14 (+1.96%) at 19,643 Topix up +27.38 (+1.75%) at 1,591 Hang Seng down -140.56 (-0.61%) at 22,727 US markets S&P 500 down -0.73 (-0.03%) at 2,099 DJIA up +46.90...
...-46.53 (-0.26%) at 17,684 Nasdaq down -17.27 (-0.34%) at 4,992 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -17.75 (-1.17%) at 1,501 FTSE100 down -50.10 (-0.76%) at 6,536 CAC 40 down -96.68 (-2.01%) at 4,712 Dax...
...Markets Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +264.47 (+1.31%) at 20,377 Topix up +16.87 (+1.04%) at 1,637 Hang Seng down -227.37 (-0.90%) at 25,009 US markets DJIA down -46.53 (-0.26%) at 17,684 Nasdaq down -17.27...
...US markets S&P 500 up +16.86 (+0.86%) at 1,983 DJIA up +167.35 (+0.99%) at 17,113 Nasdaq up +45.45 (+1.02%) at 4,512 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +3.91 (+0.28%) at 1,377 FTSE100 up +9.68 (+0.15%)...
...On the Dax, the chipmaker Infineon is the biggest faller – down 2.5 per cent at €8.17, while Cap Gemini, the IT services company, tops the Cac 40 fallers in Paris, down 1.6 per cent at €51.5....
...Sector peer William Hill took on 1.6 per cent to 377.3p ahead of results due on Friday....
...+2.32% at 1,222 Hang Seng up +0.78% at 22,568 Shanghai Composite down -1.17% at 2,114 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.89% at 456.31 CNX Nifty up +1.05% at 6,155 Currencies €/$ 1.37 (1.37) $/¥ 102.41 (102.26)...
...Topix down -0.84% at 1,155 Hang Seng down -0.30% at 21,474 Shanghai Composite up +0.96% at 2,024 MSCI Asia ex-Japan up +0.24% at 454.12 CNX Nifty up +0.17% at 6,504 Currencies €/$ 1.39 (1.39) $/¥ 101.79...
...Imperial Tobacco faded 1.2 per cent to £21.32....
...BHP Billiton was 1.3 per cent softer at £17.06 and Rio Tinto lost 0.7 per cent to £27.38....
...Soco International bounced 5.1 per cent to 377.2p, with speculation last week of a setback in Vietnam seeming to have been misplaced....
...The metal rose $11 on Friday to a two-month high of $1,377 an ounce, giving it a weekly gain of about $60 – not the response normally associated with heightened “taper chatter”....
...) at 14,398 Topix up +18.60 (+1.59%) at 1,192 Hang Seng up +134.74 (+0.59%) at 22,885 US markets S&P 500 up +16.54 (+1.00%) at 1,672 DJIA up +140.62 (+0.94%) at 15,063 Nasdaq up +46.17 (+1.26%) at 3,706...
...OVERNIGHT MARKETS: MIXED Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -242.43 (-1.64%) at 14,566 Topix down -12.65 (-1.04%) at 1,209 Hang Seng up +32.17 (+0.15%) at 21,377 US markets S&P 500 up +8.46 (+0.50%) at 1,689...
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