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...Dinh Van gold earring, €3,600 for pair, and white-gold and diamond ring, POA Chanel velvet iridescent skirt, £5,395. Charvet lisle yarn short socks, €45. 13 09 SR technical-fabric trainers, €590....
...For the July to September quarter, the group reported a 1 per cent year-on-year rise in operating profit to ¥318.5bn while revenue rose 13 per cent to ¥2.4tn....
...Shanmugam said global demand for gloves in 2021 is expected to remain at 420bn pieces, with 13,318 pieces used every second around the world....
...The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...Battery ranges from 1.5 hours in full-power mode to 2.5 hours on the lower setting. £9,999, ktm.com Eco Charger Lithium Prestige 4WD This brand specialises in electric quad bikes, and its top-of-the-range...
...Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at the consultancy Pantheon Macroeconomics, forecast that retail sales would fall 5 per cent month on month in January....
...Riders receive an average of £4-£5 per order, it added, and average delivery fees have risen year on year....
...Other KPIs: Active customers were up +31% to 13.9mn, number of orders increased by +38% to 42.2mn. Order frequency has improved by +5% to 3.04x. Avg. order value was up +6% to £43.5....
...The Fed last week slashed rates by half a percentage point — the biggest cut since the crisis — to a range of 1-1.25 per cent....
...Christie’s will auction the work, currently without a guarantee, for $1m-$1.5m at its contemporary art evening sale in New York on November 13....
...In July 1989, George Bush Sr promised: “For the new century, back to the Moon, back to the future, and this time back to stay!”...
...real terms increases in day-to-day spending on public services compared to real terms cuts of 3% per annum announced at SR 2010 and 1.3% cuts at SR 2015....
...A quiet wider market left the FTSE 100 lower by 5.1 points at 7,318.88....
...Exane was also cautious on the wider utility sector where Centrica fell 2.5 per cent to 141.4p and SSE lost 1.5 per cent to £13.10....
...Brent was down 1.9 per cent to $64.24 a barrel. Gold was barely changed at $1,318 an ounce....
...In the same period between 2016 and 2017, there were 318: a drop of 26.9 per cent. The numbers are even down 13.8 per cent on the 2013-2014 period, when there was last a dip in the market....
...Even after spending half his life distributing his fortune, John D Rockefeller was said at his death to control 1.5 per cent of the country’s economic output....
...-0.53%) at 1,463 FTSE100 down -5.60 (-0.08%) at 7,401 CAC 40 down -24.58 (-0.48%) at 5,080 Dax down -44.47 (-0.37%) at 12,123 Currencies €/$ 1.20 (1.20) $/¥ 108.86 (109.24) £/$ 1.29 (1.29) €/£ 0.9251 (0.926...
...) at 6,011 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -19.98 (-1.28%) at 1,538 FTSE100 down -18.56 (-0.25%) at 7,503 CAC 40 down -88.21 (-1.63%) at 5,318 Dax down -172.92 (-1.35%) at 12,632 Currencies €/$ 1.11...
...Having kept the pound around the $1.30 level in anticipation of a comfortable Conservative majority, currency traders’ knee-jerk reaction was to sell sterling, knocking 2.5 per cent off its value....
...Hang Seng down -76.80 (-0.33%) at 23,318 US markets S&P 500 up +13.10 (+0.62%) at 2,140 DJIA up +75.54 (+0.42%) at 18,162 Nasdaq up +44.01 (+0.85%) at 5,244 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +18.70 (+...
...DJIA down -394.46 (-2.13%) at 18,085 Nasdaq down -133.57 (-2.54%) at 5,126 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -14.39 (-1.05%) at 1,360 FTSE100 down -81.75 (-1.19%) at 6,777 CAC 40 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%...
...Gold, which is sensitive to interest rate expectations, was down 0.1 per cent in Asia at $1.318.90 an ounce....
...Gold was down 0.2 per cent at $1,338.03 an ounce, after climbing 1.5 per cent the previous session....
...Markets at 0753 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +166.96 (+0.98%) at 17,235 Topix up +13.79 (+1.01%) at 1,380 Hang Seng up +318.27 (+1.54%) at 20,948 US markets S&P 500 up +8.96 (+0.43%) at 2,099 DJIA up...
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