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...Hermès leather Haut à Courroies Casaque bag, £17,000 Sunnei cotton Tubo top, €1,250. Tod’s leather skirt with python-effect embossing, £4,250. Annk faux-fur shoes, €200....
...Hungary’s central bank reduced its main policy rate by 1 percentage point last week to 17 per cent, despite headline inflation running at 24 per cent in April....
...this,” he said, gesturing to a ministry projection showing government spending falling to 18.4 per cent of gross domestic product next year with the spending cap breached, instead of a previously forecast 17.5...
...Whereas sports leagues such as the NFL, NBA and MLB have negotiated to give half of revenues to players, the UFC probably distributes about 17.5 per cent....
...Membership of the United Auto Workers union has declined since hitting a high of 1.5m in 1979, and real wages for car workers have declined 17 per cent since 1990, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...Texas reported a record increase with 7,149 new cases over the preceding 24 hours, as did Florida with 5,551 and California with 5,511....
...Centuries-old national champions Barclays (€17.4bn), Deutsche Bank (€15.6bn) and Italy’s UniCredit (€17.2bn) are collectively worth less than Zoom, the $72bn (€61bn) videoconferencing company founded in...
...Inflation, above 50 per cent last year, was 1.5 per cent in April, a reflection of collapsing consumption as a result of the lockdown....
...It seems to be working: tax collections hit 1.63bn pesos ($32m) for January to August, three times higher than the 579m pesos for all of 2018....
...However, a 5-10 per cent tariff would be “far from devastating” and would not alter bilateral trade flows, Mr Ramos of Goldman noted....
...In mid-June, VW confirmed it would pay €1,551.53 per outstanding share, subject to approval at the company’s next AGM. Joe Miller in Frankfurt 19....
...The yield on the three-year government bond due in 2021 steadied at 17.9 per cent, having surged to 20.1 per cent earlier on Thursday....
...Stocks trading in Istanbul also rallied, with the benchmark BIST 100 index up 1.1 per cent and banks rallying 4.2 per cent....
...Markets at 0830 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +27.70 (+0.12%) at 22,551 Topix up +3.48 (+0.20%) at 1,781 Hang Seng up +158.38 (+0.53%) at 29,866 US markets S&P 500 down -1.95 (-0.08%) at 2,597 DJIA down...
...Hang Seng up +2.95 (+0.01%) at 28,462 US markets S&P 500 down -4.31 (-0.17%) at 2,551 DJIA down -31.88 (-0.14%) at 22,841 Nasdaq down -12.04 (-0.18%) at 6,592 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +0.21 (...
...(+0.10%) at 1,697 Hang Seng down -11.68 (-0.04%) at 28,479 US markets S&P 500 up +5.91 (+0.23%) at 2,551 DJIA up +69.61 (+0.31%) at 22,831 Nasdaq up +7.52 (+0.11%) at 6,587 European markets Eurofirst...
...The Stoxx 600 — up 0.5 per cent at one stage, ended the session 0.1 per cent lower. The pan-regional index was fractionally lower for the week....
...With Dortmund 2-1 down, Reus’s teammate Emre Mor slides a long pass down the right side of the pitch, past Madrid’s centre back Sergio Ramos, into the path of striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang....
...Its shares, up 2.5 per cent to £17.08, have doubled over the past 12 months thanks to sterling’s devaluation and optimism about US construction activity. Redburn Partners put a £20 target on Ashtead....
...Its shares jumped 17.5 per cent to ¥1,007, a 14-month month high, on hopes it is nearing a settlement with US authorities....
...The Mexican peso fell 1 per cent to 20.4 per dollar following the announcement....
...The focus in 2016 is states such as Arizona, where Latinos will make up 22 per cent of the electorate, Florida with 18 per cent, Nevada with 17 per cent and Colorado with 14.5 per cent....
...With official inflation at 181 per cent and the economy shrinking 5.7 per cent in 2015, tensions continue to rise in oil-rich Venezuela....
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