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...Ether, the second most traded cryptocurrency, has risen 31 per cent this month to more than $1,575, according to Refinitiv data....
...As noted in the FT, Ecuador signed a $6.5bn lending agreement with the IMF and renegotiated the terms of its $17.4bn of sovereign debt with bondholders in 2020....
...In a campaign marked by extravagant offers and claims, Arauz has pledged $1,000 to 1m Ecuadorians within days of taking office to help them recover from the impact of the pandemic....
...After resisting for longer, Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno backtracked on his widely opposed plan to abolish fuel subsidies, which would have saved the state $1.3bn a year, or 1.2 per cent of GDP, jeopardising the...
...The S&P 500 ended the day 0.8 per cent higher at 2,677.84 in a broad-based rally. Telecoms led the gain rising 1.5 per cent, followed closely by utilities and materials both up about 1.4 per cent....
...As IDB chief Luis Alberto Moreno has pointed out, the six Latin American countries at the forefront of the Venezuelan influx have an average per-capita income of just $17,000....
...Sony Pictures Entertainment has hired Time Inc M&A veteran Erik Moreno as its executive vice-president of corporate development and M&A....
...The dollar index fell 0.3 per cent to 90.677 while the euro gained 0.3 per cent to $1.22, its highest since late 2014 after Angela Merkel unveiled a coalition deal on Friday....
...A median forecast from analysts compiled by Bloomberg had predicted ebit of €677.13m....
...West Texas Intermediate, the American marker, was up by the same amount at $53.17 per barrel after dropping 1.5 per cent the previous day....
...“As a capital city, Lisbon is an anomaly in Europe,” says Arthur Moreno, co-founder of Stone Capital, which buys and refurbishes old buildings in prime locations....
...The disappointing activity surveys from China are weighing on the base metals sector, with copper down 0.5 per cent to $4,677 a tonne....
...106.90 (-2.27%) at 4,605 Dax down -213.85 (-1.96%) at 10,677 Currencies €/$ 1.10 (1.10) $/¥ 122.00 (122.53) £/$ 1.54 (1.55) €/£ 0.7128 (0.712) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.37 at 56.48 Light...
...5.52 (+0.11%) at 4,997 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -24.13 (-1.61%) at 1,476 FTSE100 down -103.47 (-1.58%) at 6,432 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 4,605 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,677 Currencies...
...at 2,021 DJIA up +196.09 (+1.14%) at 17,361 Nasdaq up +41.45 (+0.89%) at 4,677 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +2.69 (+0.18%) at 1,468 FTSE100 up +33.15 (+0.49%) at 6,783 CAC 40 up +23.42 (+0.51%) at...
...The S&P 500 gained 1.2 per cent to 1,950.82. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.3 per cent to 16,677.90. The Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.6 per cent to 4,452.79....
...But, after reaching a low of $1,677 a tonne in February, the LME three-month price for the light metal has soared, to $2,055 a tonne on Tuesday. For the year to date, the price has gained 14 per cent....
...Barclays forecast AstraZeneca’s earnings per share next year to fall below an implicit floor of 1.5 times a $2.80 minimum dividend....
...The continuing government shutdown has caused some concern, particularly with the approach of the October 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling....
...0.8397) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.26 at 107.18 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.25 at 93.59 100 Oz Gold (Comex) at 1,273 Copper (Comex) at 3.16 10-year government bond yields (%) US 2.72% UK 2.73%...
...) at 14,751 Topix up +16.26 (+1.36%) at 1,209 Hang Seng up +394.67 (+1.71%) at 23,512 US markets S&P 500 up +20.76 (+1.22%) at 1,726 DJIA up +147.21 (+0.95%) at 15,677 Nasdaq up +37.94 (+1.01%) at 3,784...
...down -1.11% at 2,284 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.43% at 554.48 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.34% at 6,022 Currencies €/$ 1.33 (1.33) $/¥ 88.20 (88.38) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.17 at 109.51 Light...
...-0.42 at 93.82 100 Oz Gold (Comex) down -6.20 at 1,677 Copper (Comex) unchanged 0.00 at 359.10 10-year government bond yields (%) US 1.82% UK 2.02% Germany 1.49% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX...
...1,677...
...United Utilities edged 0.2 per cent lower at 659p and Severn Trent was down 1.3 per cent at £15.17....
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