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...Excluding London, Bristol had the highest average private rent of £1,734 compared with an average in Great Britain of £1,238....
...Official data this week shows that house prices in the capital were 4.8 per cent lower in February 2024 compared with the year before, much worse than the 0.2 per cent contraction registered in the same...
...Futures for Brent crude, the international oil benchmark, rose as much as 4.2 per cent to $90.75 per barrel and then retreated to trade 1.1 per cent higher at $88.04....
...Consultancy Bain expects the market for personal luxury goods to grow by 1 to 4 per cent in 2024, down from an estimated 8 to 10 per cent in 2023....
...The policy-sensitive two-year Treasury yield was up 0.1 percentage point at a one-month high of 4.47 per cent, while the 10-year yield climbed 0.14 percentage points to 4.17 per cent....
...The South Korean won hit a 17-month low on Tuesday, breaching a major psychological threshold of 1,400 per dollar....
...Last month data from research group Kantar showed that sales of branded goods pushed ahead of own label in the four weeks to March 17, while premium own-label lines grew 16.1 per cent — the quickest rate...
...The Brent crude price fell 1 per cent....
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...Target’s earnings of $2.10 a share came in well ahead of Wall Street estimates of $1.48 and the company continued to make progress lowering inventory levels....
...The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage slipped to 7.17 per cent in the week ending December 1 from 7.37 the previous week, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Wednesday....
...Two of the funds will increase their leverage from 175 per cent to 200 per cent: the GraniteShares 1.75x Short AAPL Daily ETF and the $4.9mn GraniteShares 1.75x Long TSLA Daily ETF....
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...The yields on policy-sensitive two-year note and benchmark 10-year notes were each down 0.02 percentage points at 4.47 per cent and 4.17 per cent, respectively....
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...From its inception in 2010 to the end of October this year, Fundsmith has returned 504.1 per cent, with the benchmark returning 281.5 per cent....
...This is down from 1.3 per cent in February and the lowest since January 2022....
...For the year, prices as measured by the 20-city index increased 6.1 per cent from a year ago, an acceleration from November’s 5.4 per cent pace....
...A decade ago the company’s effective tax rate was 17.4 per cent. Last year it was 12 per cent. The previous year, the company set aside nothing at all. Now, rates are rising....
...Meanwhile, mortgage approvals rose in February to a 17-month high, according to separate figures released by the Bank of England this week....
...The company said margins for the full year were 17.3 per cent, just shy of 17.4 per cent expected by analysts....
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