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...London’s main stock index notched its best week since September, rising 0.6 per cent to close at 7,930.92....
...The shift in sentiment helped push the spread — or gap — between benchmark 10-year US and German government borrowing costs to 2.17 percentage points, its highest level since 2019....
...The yield on the 10-year note fell 0.13 percentage points at 3.92 per cent....
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...Its 10-year debt yields 3.2 per cent, well below Italy’s at 3.6 per cent and the UK’s at 4 per cent. This recovery has benefited its banks, in particular....
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...From April 2024, institutions that are TPS members will be required to increase employer contributions by five percentage points from 23.6 per cent to 28.6 per cent....
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