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...Daily reported Covid-19 cases have fallen to about 6,000 from a record 63,000 in April....
...But these people account for an ever smaller share of stock market ownership — since 1963 the proportion of UK shares held by individual investors has plummeted from 63 per cent to 13.5 per cent as of 2018...
...The dollar index, which tracks the US currency against a basket of major peers, dropped 0.2 per cent to 89.914, below the 90 mark for the first time since the end of 2014, according to Reuters data....
...Even as late as the late 1990s, something like 90% of all lending occurred through the big four banks....
...Apart from laughing all the way to the bank?...
...Beyond the Square Mile Markets in Asia were mixed as investors worked their way through a batch of economic data and parsed policy decisions from the central banks of Japan and Australia....
...Oil accounts for more than 90 per cent of foreign currency earnings but crude prices remain depressed....
...Also at 3pm, the August Conference Board consumer confidence index is expected to rise to 93.0 from July’s 90.9, which was 9 points below expectations....
...but says these account for only a small slice of sales. Wm Morrison has its annual meeting today....
...The bid from IAG, run by former Aer Lingus pilot Willie Walsh, is conditional on getting 90 per cent of the shares....
...Data provider Morningstar estimates that active management still accounts for about 90 per cent of the market in Europe compared with about 70 per cent in the US....
...Traders from UBS share their “scores” in a private chatroom: Traders from UBS and three other banks exchanged their positions leading into the WMR 4pm fix....
...Although mortgage lending is expected to accelerate from 61,700 in May to 63,000 in June, Nationwide’s house prices are forecast to show a slight slowdown from 1 per cent seasonally adjusted growth in June...
...from refinancing this debt with US or European banks....
...) at 4,486 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -4.09 (-0.29%) at 1,394 FTSE100 up +0.84 (+0.01%) at 6,866 CAC 40 down -20.90 (-0.47%) at 4,469 Dax down -20.35 (-0.20%) at 10,009 Currencies €/$ 1.36 (1.36...
...After taking account of currency and tax changes, Mr Currie says the US is the only country in which consumers are likely to see a big benefit....
...According to the bank’s version of events, inflation is no longer so much of a concern, because of Turkey’s mixture of increased exports, slower domestic demand and a stabilised currency. ** From elsewhere...
...Accounts must be shut by April 15, preventing investors in the commodity that advocates promote as a digital currency from doing fund transfers to the exchanges, according to a Caixin news report citing...
...Both Re/Code and The New York Times reported the deal would take place this week, but the reported price now is for $90 million in stock.”...
...Markets: Asia’s major bourses fell into the red on disappointing economic data from China and Japan, while the Chinese currency resumed its decline with a sharp drop....
...The banks have launched their own online currency funds and raised deposit rates to the upper limit set by the central bank....
...Users topped 81m at the end of February, compared with about 77m active equity trading accounts in the whole country at the start of this month....
...Heavy selling of the Australian currency saw it fall 0.44 per cent against the US dollar to $90.65, its lowest level since September 3....
...The Bank of Japan refrained from expanding stimulus.”...
...from their accounts....
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