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...The Harrow primary school pupil achieved her first women’s international master norm with 4.5/9 at the European Women’s Championship in Rhodes, Greece....
...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....
...Loewe wool Anagram sweater, £895, mytheresa.com Memphis Milano wood, laminate and painted-metal Hollywood side table, €5,100 The Elder Statesman cashmere Morph Striped pillow, £388, net-a-porter.com Louis...
...The bank’s operating income increased 17 per cent to $5.2bn over the quarter compared with a year earlier and its net interest income rose 3 per cent to $2.4bn....
...The yield on the two-year Treasury was down 0.03 percentage points to 5 per cent, indicating a rise in the price of the note....
...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....
...Operating profit more than doubled to £56mn, with free cash flow shooting up from £8mn to £91mn and driving leverage down from 1.2 times to 0.5 times adjusted cash profits....
...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....
...Over the past 15 years Norges Bank Investment Management has returned 8.5 per cent....
...Magnus Carlsen, Norway’s world No 1, is back in action this week, following the seismic Candidates at Toronto which ended in India’s Gukesh Dommaraju celebrating victory at age 17....
...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....
...If a downturn does arrive, “these stocks will lead the way down”, says César Pérez Ruiz, chief investment officer at Pictet Wealth Management. “People will sell what they own,” he added....
...The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 fell 1.5 per cent in its biggest one-day drop since last July....
...He found the yearly average of subscribers “maxing out” is 1.8mn, or 17 per cent....
...The strong performance has narrowed the spread on benchmark Italian debt over Germany’s from 1.9 percentage points to 1.3 percentage points, as investors have become increasingly optimistic about the prospects...
...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...
...Indonesia’s hybrid car market is also expanding, with sales volume increasing 5.2 times to approximately 54,000 units in 2023....
...The number of companies filing for insolvency fell to 1,815 last month, a 17 per cent drop on March 2023, according to official data released on Friday....
...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?...
...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....
...The shares trade at 20-times forward consensus earnings, making them more expensive than the five-year average of 17 times....
...Meanwhile, mortgage approvals rose in February to a 17-month high, according to separate figures released by the Bank of England this week....
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