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...The worst-performing areas were the south west of England and East Anglia, where house prices fell by 1.7 per cent and 1.3 per cent....
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...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....
...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...
...Tiffany & Co gold small Elsa Peretti Bone cuff (on right wrist), £17,700, and silver medium Elsa Peretti Bone cuff (on left wrist),£1,825....
...But only 157,576 people, less than 3 per cent of the 5.4mn, have taken up the British offer. What makes Hong Kong so attractive?...
...Annual grocery inflation eased to 4.5 per cent in the four weeks to March 17, down from 5.3 per cent in the previous month, according to the research company Kantar....
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...The South Korean won hit a 17-month low on Tuesday, breaching a major psychological threshold of 1,400 per dollar....
...The remaining institutional portion was 1.1 times subscribed. Hong Kong’s benchmark Hang Seng index has fallen more than 15 per cent over the past year....
...He found the yearly average of subscribers “maxing out” is 1.8mn, or 17 per cent....
...The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 fell 1.5 per cent in its biggest one-day drop since last July....
...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....
...Santander said it would pay a final dividend of 9.5 cents per share for 2023, taking the total payout for the year to 17.6 cents, a 50 per cent increase from 2022....
...Meanwhile, mortgage approvals rose in February to a 17-month high, according to separate figures released by the Bank of England this week....
...NYCB also said Thursday it would cut its dividend to 1 cent a share. It had been paying regular quarterly dividends of 17 cents a share, which it cut to 5 cents for the final quarter of last year....
...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....
...Shop price annual inflation eased to 1.3 per cent in March, down from 2.5 per cent in February, according to data published on Tuesday by the British Retail Consortium....
...Total NPL coverage stands at just 17 per cent once legacy UK shopping centre loans are excluded. That compares with over 30 per cent on average for European banks....
...The index closed above 5,000 for the first time in history on Friday. The Nasdaq Composite was down 0.3 per cent....
...until June 1 (€55,000-€500,000)....
...Shares in Scottish Mortgage climbed 1.5 per cent on Friday, but remain down almost 40 per cent from their record high....
...Earnings per share reached $1.89, up from $1.17 last year and exceeding the average $1.53 estimate....
...Prices rose 7.5 per cent year on year in the second half, matching forecasts, and down from a 9.5 per cent pace in the first half. Total reported sales decreased by 1.5 per cent to SFr93bn ($106bn)....
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