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...Asia’s major stock markets declined on Wednesday, except in Hong Kong as the city’s benchmark Hang Seng index added 1.9 per cent during the morning session....
...Copper, the third metal covered by the new measures, added 1.6 per cent to $9,604 a tonne, its highest level in 22 months, on expectations of a tighter market as a result of the sanctions....
...Germany’s housing market was one of the worst hit with a decline of 8.4 per cent on an annual basis, second only to Luxembourg with a 9.1 per cent drop....
...Falling price inflation contributed to fourth-quarter like-for-like sales growth across its own-managed shops slowing to 9.4 per cent, compared with 14.2 per cent in the previous three months....
...Services output grew 0.1 per cent in February, while production — including manufacturing, utilities and mining — increased 1.1 per cent. Construction output fell 1.9 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....
...Benchmark 10-year Treasury note yields rose 0.13 percentage points to 4.32 per cent, while those on two-year Treasuries, which are sensitive to interest rate policy, rose 0.09 percentage points to 4.71 per...
...The increase in the consumer price index in the US was 3.4 per cent in December, far below a peak of 9.1 per cent in June 2022....
...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....
...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....
...Like-for-like food sales increased 9.9 per cent to £2.3bn in the 13 weeks to December 30, ahead of the 6.6 per cent analysts expected....
...Like-for-like food sales rose 9.9 per cent in the most recent third quarter; clothing and homeware was up 4.8 per cent on the same basis....
...Exports to the European Union and United States fell 10.2 per cent and 13.1 per cent, respectively. Exports to Russia rose 46.9 per cent....
...According to Winterflood, in 2023 the sector average discount was 13.2 per cent and delivered a 4.9 per cent return — lower than the FTSE All Share performance of 7.9 per cent....
...Shares of publicly traded brokerages fell after the settlement was announced: Compass closed down 14.3 per cent, Redfin dropped 4.9 per cent and Anywhere Real Estate — whose brands include Century 21, Coldwell...
...Net sales in the period were down 2 per cent to SKr5.4bn (€4.7bn) while revenue from March 1 to 25 was up 2 per cent in local currencies....
...Falling price inflation contributed to fourth-quarter like-for-like sales growth across its own-managed shops slowing to 9.4 per cent, compared with 13.7 per cent in the previous three months....
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...That was a jump from a 2.1 per cent rate in the second quarter, and the strongest figure since the fourth quarter of 2021. Economists on average had predicted a rate of 4.3 per cent....
...In the UK, the PMI composite reading pointed to a mild rebound in the economy in the first quarter with a reading of 52.9 in March, down fractionally from 53 in February and marginally lower than the 53.1...
...A total of 54 areas had jobless rates of less than 3.0 per cent and 13 areas had rates of at least 8.0 per cent....
...Cumulative average daily returns while Wall Street is closed come to 26.4 per cent, against 9.9 per cent during US trading hours, CCData said....
...M&S said like-for-like food sales rose 9.9 per cent to £2.3bn in the 13 weeks to December 30, ahead of the 6.6 per cent expected....
...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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