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...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....
...The Russian central bank raised its key interest rate for the fifth time in a row on Friday to 16 per cent, an increase of 1 percentage point from its last decision in October, amid growing concerns about...
...Shares in WuXi AppTec and WuXi Biologics fell 16.6 per cent and 9.7 per cent, respectively. Both stocks have lost almost half their value since the start of the year....
...Japan’s Topix fell 0.8 per cent and South Korea’s Kospi dropped 1.3 per cent. China’s CSI 300 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index lost 1.7 per cent and 0.9 per cent, respectively....
...It is the highest number since 2000, and almost double the 20-year average of 16.7 work stoppages a year in the US....
...Chief operating officer Craig Boundy has made the most of this bounce, selling 226,166 shares for over £7.2mn on January 16....
...These begin absorbing losses if the bank’s CET1 ratio falls below 7 per cent. The bonds’ price doubled to 40 euro cents as fears eased that the payment would have to be scrapped....
...The European Commission said the flash estimate of its consumer confidence indicator for the eurozone fell 1 point to minus 16.1 this month, missing economists’ forecasts for a reading of minus 14.3....
...The group said it would launch a €1.6bn share buyback and raise its dividend by 16 per cent compared with the previous year....
...The group’s profitability inched up in 2023, to an underlying operating margin of 16.7 per cent compared with the previous year’s 16.1 per cent....
...Far-right ministers in Israel piled pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to spurn a broader hostage-for-prisoner release deal with Hamas, even as the Palestinian militant group released another 16 people and talks...
...It said discounters Lidl and Aldi registered the fastest annual sales growth of 14.7 per cent and 13.2 per cent respectively compared with 7.9 per cent across the grocery sector....
...Economists polled by Reuters had expected 0.3 per cent month on month and 0.7 per cent annual increases. Prices rose 0.7 per cent from January, taking the average property price to £260,420....
...House prices increased 0.7 per cent between December and January, the fastest pace since October, data published on Wednesday showed....
...On Friday, benchmark Henry Hub contracts for March settled at $1.61 per mn British thermal units, up marginally from $1.58/mn Btu on Thursday....
...It has gained in 16 of the past 19 weeks. The Stoxx Europe 600 index rose 1 per cent....
...Total factor productivity — a measure of how efficiently resources are used in the economy — was last year only 1.7 per cent above the level recorded in 2007, when the country was heading into the credit...
...Clothing sales dropped 1.7 per cent....
...NatWest said in November that Rose was due to forfeit £7.6mn in outstanding pay and bonuses she could have been due from the bank....
...by 16% through year-end....
...By 2032, it is projected that cash use will halve, with 7 per cent of payments expected to be made using cash....
...However, compared with a year earlier, eurozone exports were still down 4.7 per cent, while imports fell 16.7 per cent, reflecting drops in the price of energy and food imports....
...The state-owned group sold a 1.7 per cent stake on the Saudi stock market in 2019, raising about $29bn in a blockbuster initial public offering....
...JPMorgan’s share fell 0.7 per cent in New York....
...And that is nowhere near Santander’s bold 16 per cent goal for the coming year....
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