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...The company rose 82.5 per cent in the quarter, more than double the rate of four other large US chipmakers. Micron added 38.1 per cent, AMD rose 22.4 per cent, and Broadcom increased 18.7 per cent....
...Analysts estimate that revenue will fall to £5.8bn, a modest drop from the same period a year earlier....
...attempted to put their money to work before the end of the tax year on April 5....
...That is below a peak of 6.22 per cent last July but well above the 1.29 per cent average in 2020 and 2021, when interest rates stood at 0.1 per cent....
...Tech was the worst performer, down 1.2 per cent. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.7 per cent, with six of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks down on the day....
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...Shares in Boeing gained 1.7 per cent after the aircraft manufacturer announced that chief executive Dave Calhoun would step down at the end of the year....
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...The city’s benchmark Hang Seng index rose 1.3 per cent while the Hang Seng Tech index increased 1.7 per cent and the Hang Seng China Enterprises index of large cap stocks added 1.8 per cent....
...Information technology group iFlytek rose 9.5 per cent. India’s Nifty 50 saw a strong start to the day, climbing 1.1 per cent in early trading....
...That beat expectations for a 1.1 per cent increase....
...In the UK, Boots same-store retail sales increased 5.9 per cent in the quarter, while pharmacy sales ticked up 1.7 per cent....
...The headline consumer sentiment index slipped to a reading of 67.7 in September from 69.5 per cent last month and missed economists’ expectations for 69.1....
...Sales of branded goods pushed just ahead of own-label items, with sales increasing by 6.1 per cent and 4.7 per cent, respectively, in the past four weeks....
...Revenues, which came in at €4.1bn in the year to September 2023, should grow by 7 per cent a year, with ebitda margins reaching 18.5 per cent. Its patch looks reasonably sheltered, too....
...In a Bloomberg poll, 14 out of 18 economists had expected a cut of at least 0.1 per cent....
...The benchmark Hang Seng index fell 1 per cent, while the tech subindex declined 1.5 per cent. China’s CSI 300 index shed 0.5 per cent....
...Trading revenue dropped 18 per cent to £7.2bn, while investment banking fees declined 12 per cent to £2bn....
...Wages negotiated collectively by unions, which cover a large proportion of European workers, increased at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent in the final quarter of 2023, down from a record rate of 4.7 per cent...
...But that compared with an increase of 6.5 per cent a year earlier....
...Sales volumes last month were also 1.3 per cent below their pre-pandemic level, although consumers spent 18.5 per cent more than in February 2020 as high prices reduced purchasing power....
...However the company, which released earnings late on Wednesday, forecast lower margins of about 7.5 per cent in 2024....
...The P/E of that company is 14 — which is the unweighted harmonic mean of 10, 10, and 100 (the formula is 3/(1/10+1/10+1/100))....
...GymGroup, with 233 sites and 850,000 members, reckons to be on track for revenues growth of 4-5 per cent this year, after an 18 per cent jump last year....
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