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...Prime housing prices — defined as the top 5 per cent of the market — grew by 6.4 per cent in the 12 months to Q4 2023 to €9,412 per sq m, according to Knight Frank Research, yet this is still much cheaper...
...April 27 to May 5; further information and tickets here ‘Dekalog: 1–4’, New National Theatre, Tokyo The first instalment of a theatrical adaptation of the late Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski...
...The two-year Treasury yield shot up 12bp, taking it above 5 per cent for the first time since 2007. Stocks sold off....
...Now it is 2.6 per cent, as markets bet that the ECB will continue raising rates from their current level of 1.5 per cent....
...Dinner and show at 5.45pm, 6.15pm, 6.45pm and 9.25pm. Drink and show at 7.45pm and 9.45pm Website; Directions Corral de la Morería is a family-run tablao with a rich history....
...Banxico’s board voted 4-1 on Thursday to raise rates 0.5 percentage points to 5.5 per cent after data showed annual inflation hit 7.37 per cent in November, its highest level in 20 years....
...Internet groups Tencent and Alibaba gained 8.8 and 9.5 per cent, respectively, while food delivery business Meituan was up more than 13 per cent....
...The measure will apply to the parts of Madrid most afflicted by the second wave of the pandemic — 37 areas largely in the poorer south of the city that account for 13 per cent of the region’s population...
...Services such as the battered tourist industry, which in good times sustains 13 per cent of the workforce, play an outsized role in the economy....
...2018: Polymath No. 968 May 5 2018: Puzzle 15,850 May 4 2018: Puzzle 15,849 May 3 2018: Puzzle 15,848 May 2 2018: Puzzle 15,847 May 1 2018: Puzzle 15,846 April 30 2018: Puzzle 15,845 April 28 2018:...
...It trimmed that advance to 13.73 at pixel time....
...The eurozone nowcast shows activity growing at 1.5 per cent, only 0.4 per cent above trend....
...The US 30-year yield was also 3bp lower, at 3.13 per cent. The Treasury sold $21bn of 10-year paper at a yield of 2.889 per cent on Monday, the highest yield for more than four years....
...0.00 (0.00%) at 13,368 Currencies €/$ 1.20 (1.20) $/¥ 112.79 (113.05) £/$ 1.36 (1.36) €/£ 0.8825 (0.8817) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.31 at 68.09 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.42 at 62.15 100...
...+0.87%) at 1,541 FTSE100 up +60.27 (+0.81%) at 7,524 CAC 40 up +47.41 (+0.90%) at 5,311 Dax up +136.22 (+1.07%) at 12,889 Currencies €/$ 1.12 (1.11) $/¥ 111.53 (111.48) £/$ 1.27 (1.27) €/£ 0.8758 (0.8751...
...Louis Vuitton, G005-006, 5 Canton Road (+852-8100 1182; louisvuitton.com)....
...Reece’s agency is selling a first-floor apartment in a 17th-century building in the central Ecusson area for €889,000, while a 17th-century château, one of Montpellier’s original follies, with 13 bedrooms...
...Tesco has continued the good-ish news from the supermarket sector this week, following positive updates from Morrison’s and Sainsbury’s by reporting like-for-like sales growth of 1.5 per cent in the 13 weeks...
...5,866 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +9.03 (+0.62%) at 1,472 FTSE100 down -25.03 (-0.34%) at 7,275 CAC 40 up +23.77 (+0.49%) at 4,889 Dax up +139.87 (+1.18%) at 11,967 Currencies €/$ 1.05 (1.05) $/...
...-77.69 (-0.72%) at 10,675 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 102.10 (102.48) £/$ 1.33 (1.33) €/£ 0.8464 (0.8467) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.60 at 49.39 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.53 at 47.09...
...Shares in Boston Beer tumbled 9.3 per cent to $157.13, after the company said its profits nearly halved to $7m or 53 cents a share, compared with $13.7m or $1 a share in the year ago period....
...) at 10,255 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 120.84 (120.52) £/$ 1.55 (1.55) €/£ 0.7287 (0.7286) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.22 at 49.97 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.13 at 47.02 100 Oz Gold (Comex...
...Markets Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +6.38 (+0.03%) at 19,698 Topix down -1.75 (-0.11%) at 1,594 Hang Seng up +536.75 (+2.40%) at 22,889 US markets S&P 500 down -6.72 (-0.32%) at 2,075 DJIA down -55.99...
...China Eastern Airlines and Air China each dropped 13 per cent. Cathay Pacific was down just 1.3 per cent and Hainan Airlines, listed in Shanghai, fell 3 per cent....
...An afternoon sell-off led the FTSE 100 lower by 51.51 points to 6,889.13, a 0.7 per cent decline....
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