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...The British Retail Consortium said on Tuesday that annual shop price inflation dropped to 5.2 per cent in October from 6.2 per cent in September, the fifth consecutive monthly decline and the lowest rate...
...Average pay growth grew 7.3 per cent excluding bonuses, or 7.2 per cent including them — a bigger than expected fall from a summer peak of 8.5 per cent....
...Its shares closed down 1.7 per cent....
...This included year-on-year user growth of 14.7 per cent in the US and 17 per cent in the rest of the world....
...Using less packaging on just one brand of toys could save $2.4mn a year, Scott observed....
...Whereas sports leagues such as the NFL, NBA and MLB have negotiated to give half of revenues to players, the UFC probably distributes about 17.5 per cent....
...Earlier this week, 17 hospitals across Greater Manchester paused non-urgent surgery....
...“We’ve had tough times . . . she’s had to keep the morale up.” Citi’s challenges are in some ways similar to the problems at HSBC....
...It will employ 1,800 by next month, with plans to scale up to 2,500 by the end of the year....
...The central bank held the country’s main policy rate at 17 per cent last week....
...The $7.2m museum is dedicated to explaining the extraordinary rise of Mr Morales — Latin America’s longest-sitting president — from a childhood being raised in a hut on the breezy shores of Lake Poopó to...
...These now make up a quarter of the group’s total assets, up from just 17 per cent three years ago....
...If morale dived on the climb, today it soars....
...The lira rallied sharply after the central bank raised its benchmark repo rate by 125 basis points to 17.75 per cent. The currency gained 2 per cent against the dollar after the increase....
...Tui’s “higher quality, diverse earnings” meant it was left on a “buy” rating with a price target cut to £17.20 from £19.10....
...The police pay review body, meanwhile, pointed to concerns about morale....
...The US Gulf of Mexico is home to about 17 per cent of the nation’s crude oil output. Brent settled at $52.41 a barrel, up 0.7 per cent, but was still down 0.6 per cent over the week....
...So-called “peripheral” eurozone bond prices recovered after an early sell-off, with Italy’s 10-year yield ending flat at 2.17 per cent after hitting 2.21 per cent....
...The yield on the 10-year US Treasury, meanwhile, was up 4 basis points at a two-week high of 2.17 per cent, after falling as low as 2.016 per cent on Friday....
...Tuesday’s 5.8 per cent retreat to £21.63 pushed shares to a two and a half year low as problems over recruitment and morale dogged its replacement of 4,500 self-employed collection agents with 2,500 staff...
...Next was 5.1 per cent lower at £41.85, Marks and Spencer lost 2.5 per cent to 357.5p and Primark owner AB Foods weakened 1.2 per cent to 27.95....
...DJIA up +129.64 (+0.61%) at 21,479 Nasdaq down -30.36 (-0.49%) at 6,110 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -5.51 (-0.37%) at 1,504 FTSE100 down -19.86 (-0.27%) at 7,357 CAC 40 down -20.82 (-0.40%) at...
...ended March) The markets at 07:54 Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +67.57 (+0.36%) at 18,665 Topix up +9.59 (+0.65%) at 1,490 Hang Seng down -142.29 (-0.59%) at 24,131 US markets S&P 500 up +4.54 (+0.19%) at 2,357...
...Brussels The markets at 07:53 Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -50.01 (-0.27%) at 18,748 Topix down -4.55 (-0.30%) at 1,495 Hang Seng down -197.20 (-0.81%) at 24,065 US markets S&P 500 up +1.62 (+0.07%) at 2,357...
...Dax down -7.62 (-0.06%) at 12,060 Currencies €/$ 1.05 (1.05) $/¥ 114.14 (114.38) £/$ 1.23 (1.23) €/£ 0.8578 (0.8564) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.17 at 55.25 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.19 at...
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