Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...UBS’s shares have dropped about 8 per cent since the reform package was published earlier this month....
...Rival Morgan Stanley reported that the mean pay gap at its main UK subsidiary edged lower in 2023 to 48 per cent from 48.8 per cent....
...The Bank of Japan is likely to hold off from raising interest rates next week but investors expect the central bank to outline its response to rising inflationary pressures caused by the yen’s decline....
...Arval’s revenues fell 5.8 per cent in the first quarter....
...Return on tangible equity, an important measure of bank profitability, stood at 8.7 per cent, higher than a year before but below Deutsche’s medium-term target of more than 10 per cent....
...The Bank of Canada boosted its predictions for the domestic economy, which it now expects to expand by 1.5 per cent in 2024 — almost double its most recent forecast in January of 0.8 per cent....
...Official data this week shows that house prices in the capital were 4.8 per cent lower in February 2024 compared with the year before, much worse than the 0.2 per cent contraction registered in the same...
...cautious approach to starting to reduce Bank Rate”....
...UniCredit shares hit an eight-year high on Monday after the bank said it would return its entire 2023 profit pool of €8.6bn to investors....
...UK wage growth eased by less than expected in the three months to December, according to official data that will leave the Bank of England still looking for confirmation that inflation is on the way down...
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.8 per cent....
...Sewing’s cash bonus was reduced by 10 per cent or €281,000, resulting in a decline in his total pay to €8.75mn, from €8.93mn in 2022....
...Britain’s blue-chip index rose 1.6 per cent to finish at 8,023.87 — eclipsing the previous closing high of 8,014.31 it hit in February 2023....
...In all, BofA’s net profit fell to $6.7bn in the first three months of the year from $8.2bn a year earlier, the Charlotte-based lender said. Revenues in the period slipped 1 per cent to just below $26bn....
...Britain’s blue-chip index rose 1.6 per cent to close at 8,023.9 — eclipsing the previous closing high of 8,014.3 it hit in February last year....
...Prices on RBI’s existing AT1 bonds slipped slightly on Wednesday, while shares in the bank closed 8.7 per cent lower....
...By shrinking its balance sheet it expects it will have at least another €8.5bn of excess capital to return to shareholders — 14 per cent of its market value....
...of 0.8 per cent....
...At Wells Fargo, first quarter NII came in 8 per cent lower compared with a year earlier. At Citi, the metric eked out a 1 per cent year-on-year gain but fell quarter on quarter....
...The drop in wage growth expectations will support the view that the central bank will start reducing rates from a 16-year high of 5.25 per cent in the summer....
...The central bank has raised its policy rate from 8.5 per cent last June to 45 per cent, after years in which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan insisted that it keep rates at super low levels....
...Japan’s debt reached a record $8.6tn at the end of last year, according to government data. At over 250 per cent of gross domestic product that is the highest across major economies in the world....
...It has promised to pay €8.6bn — its entire profit for 2023 — to investors....
...The country’s annual headline inflation rate fell to 3.8 per cent in January, within the central bank’s tolerance band for the first time since March 2021....
...It is ranked 259 in the latest annual FT ranking of 500 high-growth Asia-Pacific companies, with a compound annual growth rate of 46.8 per cent from 2019 to 2022....
International Edition