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...Lombardy has 3.7 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants, and 0.7 beds for longer-term illnesses according to the health ministry....
...Equities In New York, the S&P 500 ended 0.1 per cent higher at 2,636 — after earlier hitting 2,647.20 — while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 0.1 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.7 per...
...Last month the decline was more stark, falling 2.7 per cent....
...The FTSE 100 closed 1 per cent lower, down 74.64 points at 7,368.37....
...Brent crude is recovering 0.6 per cent to $47.17 a barrel after losing more than 2.7 per cent on Wednesday when data showed US crude inventories rose more than expected last week....
...3.7 per cent lower....
...) at 4,355 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -10.94 (-0.82%) at 1,324 FTSE100 down -46.32 (-0.69%) at 6,636 CAC 40 down -25.74 (-0.61%) at 4,207 Dax down -59.70 (-0.65%) at 9,130 Currencies €/$ 1.34...
...The bank, run by chief executive Stuart Gulliver, is on Monday expected to report a 28 per cent rise in net attributable profits to $17.2bn despite a 6.7 per cent drop in net interest income to $35.2bn,...
...European markets Eurofirst 300 up +5.80 (+0.46%) at 1,258 FTSE100 down -11.35 (-0.17%) at 6,559 CAC 40 up +24.89 (+0.60%) at 4,170 Dax up +39.11 (+0.45%) at 8,636 Currencies €/$ 1.35 (1.35) $/¥ 98.38...
...Shares were down 0.8 per cent to $17.36. Bookseller Barnes & Noble fell 8.7 per cent to $19.44....
...Oil explorer Sefton Resources tumbled 17.3 per cent on Tuesday after it said that a report on the Tapia oil field in California was taking longer than expected....
...Overall, the S&P 500 moved 0.8 per cent lower to 1,366.94, adding to last week’s losses of 1 per cent....
...Shares in Verizon , the largest US mobile phone network, fell 0.4 per cent to $36.17....
...Revenues rose 7 per cent year on year to $12.2bn. Merck’s shares slipped 2.29 per cent to $34.13 on Friday....
...The S&P 500 housebuilders fell 5.3 per cent and the materials sector was down 1.7 per cent....
...But the Ibex index still managed to add 1.1 per cent to 10,506.70. The biggest gaining banks were BBVA, which rose 2.5 per cent to €10.09, while Banesto added 1.8 per cent to €7.60....
...Germany’s Xetra Dax fell 1.7 per cent to 4,636.94, and France’s CAC 40 shed 1.5 per cent to 3,197.89....
...S&P500 down 17.85 at 1,282.83 European markets (Fri) FTSE100 up 35.46 at 5,636.61 Eurofirst 300 up 3.82 at 1,194.73 Currencies 05.08am BST €/$ 1.4633 (1.4745) $/Y 108.42 (109.08) £/$ 1.8032 (1.8315)...
...Zinc fell 2.2 per cent to $1,805 a tonne while nickel eased 1.1 per cent to $17,450 a tonne and tin slipped 0.6 per cent to $17,636 a tonne....
...Its shares gained 2.1 per cent to 636½p on rumours of predatory interest. Last year, Aguas de Barcelona, the Spanish group that owns Bristol Water, was linked with a bid for Pennon....
...The spot price fell by 0.17 per cent to $920.33 per troy ounce. The precious metal has dropped by 12.2 per cent from its peak of $1,032.70 two months ago....
...The group’s shares rose 7¾p to 458¾p in early trading, a rise of 1.7 per cent....
...138.63 at 20,789.12 European markets FTSE100 – down 4.13 at 6,636.79 FTSEurofirst 300 – down 2.13 at 1,598.12 Currencies 05.19am BST €/$ 1.3455 (1.3513) $/Y 121.45 (121.26) £/$ 1.9706 (1.9745) Commodities...
...ICE January Brent rose $1.17 to $62.38 a barrel while Nymex January West Texas Intermediate gained 88 cents to $61.87 a barrel....
...Over the week, gold gained 2.6 per cent to $636.05 a troy ounce....
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