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...The BoE data on Tuesday also showed that the share of gross mortgage advances for buy-to-let purposes fell by 4.9 percentage points year on year in the final quarter to 7 per cent, the lowest since 2010....
...Given sluggish demand in the UK, this should leave the BoE on track to start easing interest rates from a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent later this year, the IMF said....
...Markets are pricing the BoE to start cutting interest rates from a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent from the summer, taking the benchmark rate to 4.5 per cent by the end of the year....
...CVC bought Unilever’s tea business for €4.5bn in 2021 while KKR acquired its spreads business in a €7bn deal in 2017....
...Chief financial officers predicted wages would rise by 4.7 per cent in the next 12 months, according to a survey conducted by the central bank in March and published on Thursday....
...Separate NHS data published last month suggested waiting lists for hospital treatment had fallen slightly since last year, from 7.7mn in October 2023 to 7.58mn in January 2024....
...The IMF on Tuesday said it expected UK inflation to drop from 7.3 per cent last year to 2.5 per cent in 2024 and 2 per cent next year....
...The gap this opens up leads directly to a third of learners receiving a grade 4 standard pass or below at GCSE, and to the consequential requirements for resits and remedial work at 16-19....
...The north of England and Scotland also posted strong annual increases of 4.1 per cent and 3.7 per cent respectively....
...The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was steady at 4.687 per cent shortly after the European open, having on Monday climbed above 4.7 per cent for the first time since October 2007....
...Netflix reported earnings of $5.28 a share, well ahead of Wall Street forecasts of $4.51, while its number of subscribers rose 16 per cent to 269mn from a year earlier....
...The fund group forecast that gilts would deliver an average annual return of 3.7 per cent over the next decade, compared with 4.4 per cent for Italian government bonds and 2.2 per cent for German Bunds....
...The yield on the 10-year note added 0.04 percentage points to 4.94 per cent, its highest in 16-years, while the yield on the two-year note gained 0.02 percentage points to 5.24 per cent....
...It suffered the biggest drop among major currencies in the world this month, falling nearly 4 per cent. The currency has lost 8.7 per cent of its value this year....
...The sell-off continued across shorter maturities, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury up 0.07 percentage points to a 16-year high of 4.75 per cent....
...Housebuilders registered a marginal improvement from 49.8 in February to 49.9, a 16-month high, while the commercial construction sub-index rose from 49.0 to 49.9....
...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....
...Sainsbury’s has posted a 7.4 per cent increase in sales over the festive quarter, boosted by its premium ranges and promotions....
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...It is targeting annual compound growth in earnings per share of 6-8 per cent, higher than a previous 3-7 per cent range and above the average growth of closer to 4 per cent expected by some analysts, including...
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