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...Germany’s largest lender on Thursday reported a 10 per cent year-on-year increase in net income to €1.45bn between January and March, slightly above analysts’ expectations....
...The lender’s common equity tier 1 ratio — a leading benchmark for its balance sheet strength — was 13.4 per cent, 0.3 percentage points lower than at the end of 2023 but well above the bank’s minimum target...
...Profits fell 13 per cent from the same period a year earlier to £1.6bn, after weakness in the bank’s domestic business and its investment bank drove a 4 per cent decline in group revenues to £7bn....
...One silver lining was a 4.2 per cent jump in orders for German carmakers....
...Revenues from LSEG’s data business rose 4.3 per cent while that from equity market activity rose just 1.6 per cent amid a slow start to the year for listings....
...The benchmark 10-year yield jumped 0.11 percentage points to 4.28 per cent....
...Russia is a key producer of all three metals, generating 6 per cent of the world’s aluminium, 4 per cent of copper and 11 per cent of high purity nickel metal, according to Citigroup....
...The survey, published on Thursday, found more than half of 13-year-olds have drunk alcohol in England as have a third of all 11-year-olds, prompting child health advocates to call for more measures to protect...
...Revenues from the data business, which accounts for the majority of earnings, rose 4.3 per cent. Equity market activity rose just 1.6 per cent....
...The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 dropped 0.4 per cent, as did Germany’s Dax, while France’s Cac 40 slipped 0.1 per cent....
...At 90p a share, the bid reflects a premium of about a third to the closing price of the stock on Wednesday and is about 4 per cent higher than the net asset value in September, of $1.11 a share....
...The ONS said growth was widespread across the manufacturing sector with an expansion reported in 11 of the 13 subsectors, with strong growth in car and food production....
...Italy has just 11.4mn women of reproductive age — aged between 15 and 49 — down from the 13.8mn women in that bracket 20 years ago....
...US GDP: Economists expect the advance estimate for first-quarter US economic growth to be 2.4 per cent, after gross domestic product expanded by 3.4 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2023....
...That was up from 8.1 per cent, 11.7 per cent and 15.6 per cent respectively in January 2013, when the data series began....
...Treasury yields rose in the morning and accelerated after the retail sales report, climbing 0.13 percentage points to 4.63 per cent on the 10-year bond, a five-month high....
...The biggest declines on an annual basis were 14.4 per cent in Luxembourg, 7.1 per cent in Germany, 4.4 per cent in Finland and 3.6 per cent in France....
...The two-year Treasury yield, which moves with interest rate expectations, rose 0.11 percentage points on the day to 4.74 per cent, while the 10-year yield jumped 0.09 percentage points to 4.4 per cent....
...This was down 13 per cent from $44,642 last year, which itself was down 11 per cent from $50,037 the previous year....
...Alibaba and JD.com rose 5.4 per cent and 4.8 per cent, respectively. Mainland Chinese utility operator ENN Energy and local lender Hang Seng bank were also among the strongest performers....
...Net sales fell 7 per cent from a year ago to about $4.9bn, beating analyst expectations....
...The rise in business activity was exclusively driven by the services sector, with the index increasing to an 11-month high of 54.9 in April, from 53.1 in the previous month....
...Banker and Sotheby’s International Realty — lost 11.7 per cent....
...The CLEWI climbed 4.9 per cent in 2023 — above the 3.4 per cent rise in US CPI in the same period — following increases of 7 per cent in 2022 and 10.1 per cent in 2021....
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