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...This was a marked discount on world oil prices, which averaged around $79 per barrel over the period, but implies an $18 per barrel rise in prices between the Baltic and India....
...Masashi Akutsu, chief Japan equity strategist at Bank of America, on Monday raised his year-end forecasts to 41,000 for the Nikkei and 2,850 for the Topix, compared with 39,098.68 and 2,660.71, respectively...
...House price inflation in October moved into negative territory at -1.2 per cent, down from 8.2 per cent a year ago. However, asking price discount levels vary across the country....
...Emerging markets are set to add to the deluge of bond sales, after government debt climbed to an all-time high of 68.2 per cent of GDP last year, according to the Institute of International Finance....
...But he says if you “slice” the pension and take £2,625 per year, then you still pay no income tax because £1,969 is under the allowance, and the £656 is the tax-free cash....
...Assets owned by Exor, formerly known as IFIL, have increased to about €33bn from about €1.2bn when Elkann’s grandfather died....
...And not a moment too soon: US life expectancy is dropping and fell to 76.1 years in 2021, the lowest since 1996....
...ONS data published this week showed the proportion of working-age adults who were neither in a job nor looking for one had ticked up to 21.1 per cent in the latest three-month period, with a record 2.6mn...
...“A date that will live in infamy” was how Franklin Delano Roosevelt described December 7 1941 — the day that Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 US personnel, including 68 civilians....
...China’s CSI 300 fell 1.2 per cent, dragged lower by basic materials, property and consumer non-cyclicals. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600 and London’s FTSE 100 both fell less than 0.1 per cent....
...If demand weakens, we expect (1) suburban outperforms urban and (2) coastal would outperform sunbelt. The rationale: supply. Demographics suggest we are at or past peak demand for urban apartments....
...Barclays’ UK net interest margin rose to 3.18 per cent in the first quarter of 2023 from 2.62 per cent in the same period last year, while Lloyds Banking Group’s increased to 3.22 per cent from 2.68 per...
...Meanwhile, although customers are still buying newspapers, print advertising sales tumbled by 18 per cent, meaning total print revenues were down 2.7 per cent. It’s not all bad news....
...This was ahead of the growth guidance of between 68 per cent and 72 per cent it issued back in January....
...Wall Street had been expecting revenue of $68.9bn and earnings of $1.06 per share....
...Her paintings, priced from £1,700, are largely autobiographical and centre on a woman’s body as a vehicle to express herself....
...Ten-year German Bund yields were 0.13 percentage points higher at 2.3 per cent, while two-year contracts rose 0.14 percentage points to 2.68 per cent....
...Wednesday’s game was played in front of a raucous crowd of 68,000, heavily dominated by the red shirts of Morocco....
...But we’ve fallen short,” said England’s manager Gareth Southgate, after a 2-1 defeat to France in the last of the 2022 World Cup quarter-finals....
...In the 12 months to March, the company has racked up a near record order book of £22mn, up 68 per cent from the year before....
...RBC Brewin Dolphin calculates an 18-year-old entering the workforce today, who saved £389 per month into their pension could reasonably expect to retire with a £1mn pension pot aged 68, assuming annualised...
...Bond yields also fell, with yields on 10-year German Bunds falling 0.27 percentage points at 2.18 per cent, their biggest single-day drop since 1990....
...Long run inflation expectations, however, have not budged from the narrow range of 2.9 to 3.1 per cent seen over the past 18 months....
...He predicts a fall in transaction levels from the five-year average of 1.2mn to 950,000-1.15mn a year. However, he also points out that higher borrowing costs won’t be felt equally....
...Here are three takeaways from the survey on how these plans are shaping up: 1....
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