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...The north of England and Scotland also posted strong annual increases of 4.1 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively....
...The South Korean won hit a 17-month low on Tuesday, breaching a major psychological threshold of 1,400 per dollar....
...The Brent crude price fell 1 per cent....
...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....
...Meanwhile, its average selling price rose 3.5 per cent to £324,000, from £313,000, despite Halifax recording a 1.8 per cent drop in house prices generally over 2023....
...Sales of branded goods pushed just ahead of own-label items, with sales increasing by 6.1 per cent and 4.7 per cent, respectively, in the past four weeks....
...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 leaders played a cagey draw in round 10, after Gukesh chose a defence to the Ruy López 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nge7 (instead of Nf6)....
...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....
...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....
...This is down from 1.3 per cent in February and the lowest since January 2022....
...Now he is a frontrunner, who was joint leader with 17-year-old Gukesh D (India) on 4/6, ahead of the favourite Fabiano Caruana (US) and Praggnanandhaa R (India) on 3.5....
...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....
...The company said margins for the full year were 17.3 per cent, just shy of 17.4 per cent expected by analysts....
...Meanwhile, mortgage approvals rose in February to a 17-month high, according to separate figures released by the Bank of England this week....
...He found the yearly average of subscribers “maxing out” is 1.8mn, or 17 per cent....
...Total US revenues were up nearly 56 per cent between January 1 and March 17. At the end of 2023, its share of the sports betting market stood at 53.4 per cent. Of course, much can still change....
...Cyber security work, meanwhile, was the fastest-growing business line, up more than 17 per cent from 2022 to £1.7bn....
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...Its success may even mean that a €1.4bn four-year subsidy, which runs out this year, is not renewed. Indeed, the Italian government hopes to sell down its remaining 29.9 per cent stake, worth €4.4bn....
...Greece’s bank bailout fund last month sold 27 per cent of Piraeus Bank for €1.35bn....
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