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...The sum lifted profits over the past 12 months to roughly $7.4bn....
...Single family housing starts fell 12.4 per cent and in the volatile multifamily housing sector, starts fell 20.8 per cent....
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...The company announced a dividend of $4.35, below average forecasts from Bloomberg of $4.42 and a decline of 12 per cent from 2022’s payout....
...Germany’s Dax and London’s FTSE 100 both gained 0.4 per cent....
...Net revenue rose 9.4 per cent to €6.8bn, ahead of the 7.2 per cent rise forecast by analysts....
...WuXi shares fell as much as 12.4 per cent, taking their two-session decline to more than 30 per cent....
...The BoE data on Tuesday also showed that the share of gross mortgage advances for buy-to-let purposes fell by 4.9 percentage points year on year in the final quarter to 7 per cent, the lowest since 2010....
...Government bond prices fell, with the 10-year Treasury yield climbing 0.12 percentage points to 4.62 per cent....
...Micron added 38.1 per cent, AMD rose 22.4 per cent, and Broadcom increased 18.7 per cent. Intel lost 12.1 per cent from January to March....
...Revenues in Barclays’ UK division fell 7 per cent to £1.8bn, while net interest income dropped 4 per cent to £1.5bn....
...The BoE’s monthly survey of chief financial officers found that wages are forecast to rise by 4.7 per cent over the next 12 months, down from a 4.9 per cent increase forecast in February and the lowest figure...
...Chief financial officers predicted wages would rise by 4.7 per cent in the next 12 months, according to a survey conducted by the central bank in March and published on Thursday....
...Microsoft is up “just” 7 per cent or so — still extremely respectable of course but it has cooled so far in April. Amazon is up 18 per cent and Meta has gained 42 per cent. Google is up 12....
...When compared with 2018, total goods exports fell by £44.7bn or 12.4 per cent....
...Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a slightly higher reading of 2.4 per cent for March. Core inflation, excluding energy and food, slipped from 3.4 per cent to 3.3 per cent....
...In the full fiscal year to the end of March, borrowing was £120.7bn, £7.6bn less than in the same 12 months a year ago, but £6.6bn more than the £114.1bn forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility,...
...The Swiss company said on Thursday that organic sales climbed 7.2 per cent last year, trailing the 7.4 per cent forecast by analysts....
...Britain’s household energy price cap is set to fall by 12 per cent in April following a fall in wholesale gas and electricity prices....
...Sales of ESG equity ETFs in the first quarter amounted to €4.1bn, a sharp decline on the €12.5bn collected in the previous quarter....
...Separate NHS data published last month suggested waiting lists for hospital treatment had fallen slightly since last year, from 7.7mn in October 2023 to 7.58mn in January 2024....
...Official data this month showed Britain used £4.3bn — or 28 per cent — of overseas aid in 2023 in the UK itself on costs associated with dealing with refugees and asylum seekers....
...That worked out to nearly 12 per cent of group total. On a profit level, the card deal carries even more weight....
...The north of England and Scotland also posted strong annual increases of 4.1 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively....
...Sheffield United alone, for example, has conceded 2.7 goals per game, while Arsenal has scored 2.4. Put them in the same stadium and you’ll get goals — 11, to be exact, all for Arsenal....
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