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...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Shares in Scottish Mortgage climbed 1.5 per cent on Friday, but remain down almost 40 per cent from their record high....
...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)....
...Santander said it would pay a final dividend of 9.5 cents per share for 2023. That will take its total payout for the year to 17.6 cents, an increase of 50 per cent from 2022....
...The share of revenues from high-level strategic consulting is falling, from about 17 per cent in 2010 to 10 per cent in 2023. That is a problem....
...Instead, the total value of the account is taxed — and in 2024 that was at a level of about 1 per cent....
...Greece’s bank bailout fund last month sold 27 per cent of Piraeus Bank for €1.35bn....
...The euro and sterling fell to their weakest levels against the dollar since November on Friday at $1.0642 and $1.245, respectively, while the yen sank to a 34-year low, before recovering to ¥153.28....
...Excluding those charges, profits at the nation’s second-largest bank still fell 17 per cent, to $5.9bn or $0.70 per share, from a year ago in the final three months of the year....
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