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...Trading and investment banking helped lift Deutsche Bank to its highest quarterly profits in 11 years in the first three months of 2024, as global dealmaking started to pick up after a two-year long slump...
...Japan’s defence spending rose 11 per cent to $50bn, while Taiwan’s defence spending rose 11 per cent to $17bn....
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...Even at the offer price, it is only worth 7.3 times 2024 sales, on Panmure Gordon estimates. By contrast, US cyber security group CrowdStrike trades at 17 times revenues, and Palo Alto at 11.5 times....
...Four of 11 sectors made gains, with utilities faring best. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.7 as five Magnificent Seven stocks traded lower....
...Revenues in Barclays’ UK division fell 7 per cent to £1.8bn, while net interest income dropped 4 per cent to £1.5bn....
...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...
...That was the lowest level since the week of August 11....
...On a like-for-like basis, UK sales were up 7.7 per cent, Ireland sales were up 6.8 per cent, and Booker (the wholesale part of the business) saw a sales uplift of 5.4 per cent....
...Balfour Beatty: Shares in the UK infrastructure company advanced 7.4 per cent after it announced its revenue grew to £9.6bn last year, a 7 per cent rise, and its full year dividend was increased 10 per cent...
...Public sector net borrowing was £11.9bn last month, £4.7bn less than in the same period last year, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday....
...McDonald’s reported full-year earnings of $11.56 a share, up from $8.33 in 2022, but just below analysts’ expectations of $11.62....
...Net sales fell 7 per cent from a year ago to about $4.9bn, beating analyst expectations....
...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...
...Walk the streets of Taipei at night and you’ll see whole bottles of Glenfiddich consumed at dinner, and selections of bottles available in every 7/11 convenience store....
...Thales: The French aviation company had a 7 per cent bump to its share price after reporting strong 2023 results....
...Interest rate-sensitive two-year gilt yields dropped 0.11 percentage points to 4.57 per cent while the FTSE 100 rose 0.7 per cent....
...The government said it has been bolstering the UK’s performance after inflation fell from a peak of more than 11 per cent to 3.4 per cent and as wages grow more quickly than prices....
...Sheffield United alone, for example, has conceded 2.7 goals per game, while Arsenal has scored 2.4. Put them in the same stadium and you’ll get goals — 11, to be exact, all for Arsenal....
...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....
...Finance chief Imran Nawaz said that although its profit margins had recovered to pre-pandemic levels, they were still modest, at 4.1 per cent....
...Yields on rate-sensitive two-year Treasuries rose 0.11 percentage points to 4.33 per cent, extending an earlier increase, after data showed retail sales across the world’s biggest economy rose 0.6 per cent...
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