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...At the end of April it managed $388.6bn, compared to SPDR’s $385.8bn....
...Before the welcome '22-'23 winter deluge, the worst drought in some 1,200 years saw levels at the river's main reservoirs around the Hoover Dam plummet to record lows....
...Trade data: Prices for imported goods are expected to have risen 0.3 per cent in April, partially reversing the previous month’s drop....
...In April last year, Li undercut Xi’s campaign to rein in tech, telling a cheering crowd of ecommerce executives, “we support the platform economy”, and the following month, he notably did not explicitly...
...Once he had bought the work (including £2 commission), he used a handheld hoover to remove layers of dust and reveal the artist’s signature, title and date of the work on the back....
...In our main item, Amanda digs into fears that the unabashedly ‘made in America’ push of the IRA could harm developing nations as it hoovers up clean energy investments....
...Having long been friends with the billionaire Latsis family, he bought a 3.6 per cent stake in the Swiss bank from them in April last year (they retain 45 per cent) and took a seat on its board....
...Tim Harford will be speaking at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival, which runs from March 25 to April 3....
...Company research points to a shortfall of 3mn-5mn tonnes of copper in the middle of the decade, as power grids, wind turbines and electric cars hoover up supplies....
...US employment: The US economy is estimated to have added 391,000 jobs in April, compared with 431,000 jobs added in March, according to economists polled by Refinitiv....
...The shares, which have traded below the offer price since it was unveiled on April 14, rose 5.6 per cent in pre-market trading to $51.70....
...Monetary policy Federal Reserve board governor Christopher Waller and St Louis Fed president James Bullard will discuss monetary policy on a panel hosted by the Hoover Institution....
...In April 1951, in what FBI Director J Edgar Hoover called “the trial of the century”, Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced to death by...
...I’ll be back with the next episode in this six-part series in a week’s time on April 18th. Make sure you don’t miss it by subscribing now to Tech Tonic wherever you get your podcasts....
...And renaming a fund to hoover up ESG money has caught the eye of regulators....
...Security concerns bedevilled Zoom as it surged from 10m daily meeting participants in December 2019 to more than 300m in April....
...Given free rein to hoover up slots, he said Wizz could eventually operate 15 to 20 aircraft from the airport, up from just one currently....
...There is nothing since the stock market collapse last March that resembles the policy inertia of Herbert Hoover’s administration after 1929....
...A case in point is oil, where Opec and its allies have yet to fully unwind the huge production cuts enacted in April 2020....
...One reason for Spain’s underperformance is the virulence with which the pandemic hit in March and April, and the speed with which infections rose again a few months later....
...But the drop has stabilised this month and the company said ad revenue in the first three weeks of April was “flat” compared with the year-ago period....
...“Republicans who choose inaction in the face of these historic economic and health crises will be taking the same misguided path as Herbert Hoover,” he said....
...The decision to increase quantitative easing reflected continued concern about the likely strength of the economic recovery, despite the central bank now thinking the plunge in output in April would turn...
...The fiscal stand-off comes after US unemployment hit a postwar high of 14.7 per cent in April, according to data released on Friday....
...In April, the country’s state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco increased the amount it raised in a bond sale to $12bn after initial investor interest topped $100bn....
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