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...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite advanced 1.1 per cent and 0.9 per cent, respectively, over the past five sessions, but have each risen for 12 of the past 13 weeks. Energy stocks were a bright spot....
...The company said it expected same-store sales growth this year to be in the range of 2 per cent to 2.7 per cent, surpassing analysts’ expectations for a 1.4 per cent annual gain....
...For those working in London, the rate will increase by more than £1 to £13.15....
...UK house prices have fallen by a modest 2.8 per cent in nominal terms since their peak in March 2022, but 13.4 per cent in real terms, according to analysis of the Nationwide house price index by estate...
...In the eurozone, headline price growth increased to 2.9 per cent in December from 2.4 per cent in the previous month. It increased to 3.4 per cent from 3.1 per cent in the US over the same period....
...The Bank of England began incrementally raising its base interest rate at the end of 2021 from 0.1 per cent. It has since climbed to 5.25 per cent....
...Treasuries rallied, pushing the yield on the two-year note down 0.14 percentage points to 4.22 per cent. The yield on the 10-year note fell 0.13 percentage points at 3.92 per cent....
...Treasuries rallied, pushing the yield on the 2-year Treasuries down 0.14 percentage points to 4.22 per cent. The yield on the 10-year note fell 0.13 percentage points at 3.92 per cent....
...These have already been on an upward trajectory, with mortgage approvals reaching 55,000 in January, up from 44,000 in September 2023....
...The company’s net income rose 23 per cent for a total of €1.66bn in 2023....
...New York’s property supply crunch has brought vacancy rates down from almost 4.5 per cent in 2021 to 1.4 per cent, below the pre-pandemic rate of 3.6 per cent, according to the New York City Comptroller....
...The FTSE 100 index is down 4.5 per cent over the past year, compared with 22.96 per cent growth in the US S&P 500....
...at $1.395mn, according to CoreLogic data....
...Sunak also earned £84,000 from his salary as a MP, an additional £55,000 ministerial wage, £13,204 in interest on investments, and £3,985 in bank interest in the year....
...Existing home sales dropped 4.1 per cent in October from a month earlier to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.79mn, according to data from National Association of Realtors released on Tuesday....
...The policy-sensitive two-year Treasury yield rose 0.13 percentage points to just under 4.6 per cent, marking a sharp decline in price....
...The settlement is expected to cut fees on the average home sale by $5,000 to $13,000....
...The yield on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury was up 0.1 percentage point in afternoon trading on Thursday, on course for its biggest rise since February 13....
...But Musk’s 10-year, $55.8bn stock compensation deal blew away all comparisons....
...The BoE also released figures that showed consumer credit rose more than expected to £1.9bn in January, from £1.3bn in the previous month, adding to signs of a revival in spending....
...This helped lift operating profits by almost a third to £126.2mn on overall revenues that grew 13.4 per cent to £1.36bn....
...Total sales for the full year rose 19.6 per cent to £1.8bn, while like-for-like sales in company-managed stores increased by 13.7 per cent compared with 2022....
...The so-called spread, or premium, over Treasury notes paid by junk-rated borrowers to issue new debt has also fallen since November 1, from 4.47 percentage points to 3.5 percentage points....
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