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...Craig Mackinlay, a Conservative MP, called for the resignation of Davies as well as Flavel. “Both need to bear due responsibility for this unsavoury mess,” he told the FT....
...The number of Spac IPOs rose more than tenfold from 59 in 2019 to 613 in 2021, with proceeds soaring from $12 billion to $162 billion, as markets got high on a Covid-era cocktail of central bank stimulants...
...Our improvised caravan — loaded with camping clobber, swimming gear, a week’s worth of kit and a bottle of Loire Valley rosé packed in a fast-dissipating spirit of freewheeling fun — was the price of independence...
...Prices rose in 13 of the 20 cities, with seven recording their largest ever price growth....
...“The increase in prices that began in January has now erased the earlier decline,” said Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P Dow Jones Indices, with prices in 10 of the 20 cities at all-time highs....
...“Labour markets remain tight, pay settlements remain strong, inflationary pressures are rising on Middle East tensions, whilst financial conditions continue to ease,” said Craig Inches, head of rates at...
...Yields on 30-year gilts rose 0.1 percentage point on Wednesday to 4.6 per cent while benchmark 10-year yields rose 0.06 percentage points to 4.2 per cent....
...In 2020, this was capped at 200 per cent of base salary, which rose to 250 per cent for 2022. Croft had £1.7mn in vested shares at the end of 2022....
...The housing market is still sensitive to high mortgage rates and “general economic weakness”, said Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P Dow Jones Indices....
...If 40 Wall Street should slip from Trump’s grasp it would be one more eventful chapter for a boom-and-bust building that was conceived in the euphoria of a speculative boom, rose during the 1929 stock market...
...Lionel Richie, Craig David and Lenny Kravitz serenaded the newly-weds. But the real VIP in attendance that day was no celebrity....
...Craig Coben is a former senior investment banker at Bank of America and now a managing director at Seda Experts, an expert witness firm specialising in financial services....
...Separately, new home sales rose more than forecast to a 14-month high of 763,000 units....
...In response, Brent crude, the international benchmark, rose 1.8 per cent, while European gas prices closed up 6.8 per cent....
...Nationally, home prices rose 1.3 per cent in March, only 3.6 per cent below its June 2022 peak, said Craig Lazzara, managing director at S&P Dow Jones Indices....
...The S&P 500 rose more than 1 per cent on Friday to its highest level in nine months on growing hopes for a debt ceiling deal....
...“This rate hike should mark the last in this cycle,” said Kerry Craig, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management....
...Craig Inches, head of rates and cash at Royal London Asset Management, which manages £150bn in assets, added that “gilts are now starting to look good fundamental value, specifically at longer maturities...
...The S&P Global/Cips UK construction purchasing managers’ index, a measure of the health of the industry, rose to 51.1 in April, from 50.7 in March....
...Nationally, home prices rose 5.8 per cent year on year, slower than the 7.6 per cent gain recorded November, according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index....
...Self-reported experience of antisocial behaviour rose by nearly 30 per cent between 2015 and 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics....
...“We have gone long duration in our gilt funds for the first time in five years,” said Craig Inches, head of rates and cash at Royal London Asset Management....
...“It demonstrates that there is nothing mystical about space,” says Craig Brown, investment director at the UK Space Agency....
...In February, output in the eurozone’s manufacturing powerhouse rose to the highest level in more than two years, approaching its pre-pandemic figures....
...CVC returned about €10bn to its backers last year across its private equity funds, Lucas said, even as dealmaking slowed as inflation rose and concerns grew over the wider economy....
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