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...Iranians will also elect new representatives in their parliament on Friday. The day before that brings another British by-election in a seat previously held by a Conservative....
...It’s a fun fact that one of the best performing investors in the world is the S&P 500 index committee. Over the past 20 years, their picks have now beaten 97 per cent of all US equity funds....
...Hunt gets his turn in front of the committee the next day Wednesday UK: former first secretary of state Dominic Raab and former health secretary Sajid Javid to give evidence to the UK’s Covid Inquiry....
...The BoE will be heavily influenced by the UK inflation figures out the day before the Monetary Policy Committee meets and expected to show a slight increase in the headline rate compared with last month....
...The SEC’s investor advisory committee were meeting to discuss the consequences of amending US shareholder voting rules, after big pension funds such as the behemoth Calpers had pushed for changes to give...
...The rest of the 1922’s executive committee is now made up of a dozen Tory MPs: Aaron Bell, Miriam Cates, Jo Gideon, Richard Graham, Chris Green, Robert Halfon, Sally-Ann Hart, Andrew Jones, Tom Randall,...
...Sunday Ecuador: voters go to the polls to elect a new parliament and president following a snap election called by the country’s current leader Guillermo Lasso after he faced impeachment charges Guatemala...
...The benchmark S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq rose to the highest levels since August and September 2022, respectively....
...Tuesday US, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes begins her prison sentence for one count of conspiracy and three counts of wire fraud Wednesday Latvia, parliamentarians elect the country’s next president...
...The House is constitutionally required to elect a Speaker and cannot start governing until one is selected. 2....
...Friday Kazakhstan, Independence Day public holiday South Africa, the governing African National Congress begins a meeting to review its policies and elect new leadership, including the party’s president...
...The Nobel Committee awarded its 2021 Peace Prize to Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, editor of Novaya Gazeta, for their work safeguarding freedom of expression....
...Powell was speaking after the Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to increase the federal funds rate by another 0.75 percentage points to a target range of 3.75 per cent to 4 per cent....
...In Sri Lanka, parliamentarians will on Wednesday elect a new president to replace Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country after protesters stormed his palace before resigning last week....
...Tuesday Czech Republic, EU ministers meet to discuss Russian aggression against Ukraine and its impact on the security of EU member states European Parliament committee for the inquiry into the use of...
...Instead, Brady explained the decision to elect a new 1922 executive, with the outcome due in five days....
...The S&P 500 briefly turned negative after the Fed’s announcement, before rallying strongly into the close to end up 2.2 per cent. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite advanced 3.8 per cent....
...Bob Michele, chief investment officer at JPMorgan Asset Management, said: “The economy is on the road to recovery . . . given the inflationary pressures that are there and the concerns of the committee members...
...The blue-chip S&P 500 climbed 1.6 per cent while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite gained 2.2 per cent....
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...That said, all US stocks have shot up, even those that are not outgrowing their global rivals: “The S&P 494 [the S&P without the Faangs] did nothing that was particularly impressive, next to the rest of...
...Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate armed services committee who said in 2017 that such a waiver should be granted only once in a generation, appeared open to endorsing Mr Austin....
...President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to create the most diverse cabinet in US history....
...Most defence experts in Washington believe he will choose Michèle Flournoy, a former top Pentagon official, to serve as the first female defence secretary....
...Mr Biden’s decision to nominate Mr Austin confounded many analysts who had expected the president-elect to select Michèle Flournoy, a former Pentagon official who would have been the first female defence...
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