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...The price of copper traded on the London Metal Exchange settled 3.1 per cent higher on Wednesday at $8,927/tonne, its highest since April last year....
...PepsiCo said adjusted earnings grew 7 per cent to $1.61 a share in the three months ending March 23, beating analyst expectations of $1.52....
...Japan’s defence spending rose 11 per cent to $50bn, while Taiwan’s defence spending rose 11 per cent to $17bn....
...Israel launched its assault in response to Hamas’s October 7 attack on the country, during which militants killed 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage, according to Israeli officials....
...1,200 people and taking 250 hostage, according to Israeli officials....
...Revenues in Barclays’ UK division fell 7 per cent to £1.8bn, while net interest income dropped 4 per cent to £1.5bn....
...The consultancy group also forecast earnings per share of between $11.41 and $11.64, down from a previous range of $11.41 to $11.76 per share....
...Americans are justifiably jealous of Britons’ £11.44 hourly minimum, which is nearly double the US national minimum of $7.25 — although nearly a dozen states have minimums around the UK level....
...The benchmark S&P 500 fell 1 per cent, with nine of its 11 sectors sliding. Gold rose 0.7 per cent to $2,129 a troy ounce, moderating from a record high reached earlier in the day....
...Retail free cash flow, which was down slightly at £2.06bn this time around, is expected to come within the target range of £1.4bn-£1.8bn....
...Sterling was down 0.7 per cent against the dollar at $1.2469 in early afternoon trading in London, pushed lower by a broader surge in the dollar....
...When this column began in November 2022 my portfolio had 11 per cent in them — worth a total of £48,000. I added an extra £9,000 when I sold my banking sector ETF last summer....
...London’s FTSE 100 was down 0.7 per cent, pulled lower by a 29.2 per cent decline for wealth manager St James’s Place and an 11.4 per cent drop for consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser, which owns brands...
...Lemaire wool-mix jumper, £405, 24s.com Isabel Marant denim Joakim trousers, £245 Hermès leather Haut à Courroies 50 Veau Togo bag, £11,580 Louis Vuitton City Guide Paris, £29 Polo Ralph Lauren wool-mix...
...UK growth will pick up to 1.5 per cent in 2025, according to the IMF, but that is also 0.1 percentage point weaker than the fund’s January outlook....
...The quake — which had a magnitude of 7.2 according to Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring agency and 7.4 according to the US Geological Survey — struck at 7.58am on Wednesday off the east coast, 25km south of...
...Shares in Anglo American dropped 1.7 per cent in early trading in London and remain about a third lower than they were at the start of 2023....
...Nomura estimates China’s GLP-1 market could grow at 23 per cent a year — faster than the global average — to $11.4bn in 2033....
...This covered 85 per cent of the 1.2bn bottles sold in the UK last year. The easement will end on February 1 next year....
...Shares in Nissan Motor tumbled as much as 11.7 per cent on Friday as investors digested disappointing third-quarter results for the Japanese carmaker....
...That was up from 8.1 per cent, 11.7 per cent and 15.6 per cent respectively in January 2013, when the data series began....
...The move still leaves the shares at about 1 per cent of their value a decade ago....
...Despite this, rental inflation has also slowed to 7.8 per cent a year, its lowest level in two years....
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