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...Brooklyn asking prices stayed flat, while Manhattan’s rose....
...The ABS said sales in Queensland and Western Australia both rose by 1.5 per cent....
...Among the better-known individual cryptocurrency enthusiasts is Derrick Brown, a former NBA basketball player....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Derrick Adams. His Floaters series of black folks hanging out on pool floats is incredible....
...After the results were published on Monday, they rose a further 10 per cent, while its market capitalisation is hovering around the $39bn mark....
...The value of fine art and antiques leaving the country, as recorded by the customs authorities, rose by 80 per cent to £9bn, its largest increase since 2010, when exports rose 58.1 per cent....
...Between lockdown being declared in England on March 23 and mid-May, the number of people inquiring about a divorce rose by 42 per cent, according to law firm Co-op Legal Services....
...Simon Derrick is chief currency strategist at BNY Mellon...
...S&P 500’s January tear — The index rose 7.9 per cent in the first month of 2019, its best start to the year since 1987, and one of its 10-biggest on record....
...Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at BNY Mellon, noted that the dollar was heading for its biggest monthly rise against the offshore renminbi since the early 1990s....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.7 per cent to 2,733.01 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 1.2 per cent to back above 25,000. The FTSE 100 rose 1 per cent, surpassing both intraday and closing highs....
...“We have a market that is looking for a reason to be optimistic,” said Mr Derrick....
...The pound rose above $1.38 on Monday for the first time since the UK’s referendum on leaving the EU in 2016....
...The euro, which rose by as much as 2.7 per cent since the start of the year, dropped sharply from an intraday high of $1.2322 on Wednesday after Vítor Constâncio, European Central Bank vice-president, became...
...The renminbi was “starting to behave almost as if it were a free floating currency”, Mr Derrick said....
...The equivalent UK Gilt yield rose 6bp to 1.2 per cent....
...“I suspect that in the absence of any political domestic developments, we may find that 90p would prove to be the upper band for euro-sterling and $1.30 the lower band for sterling-dollar,” says Simon Derrick...
...Brent crude, the international energy benchmark, is up 3.6 per cent at $52.87 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate, the main US contract, rose 3.4 per cent to $48.71 a barrel....
...And when Tony Blair looked poised to beat John Major soundly in the 1997 campaign, the pound rose when the polls showed that Labour’s sizeable lead was shrinking....
...On Friday afternoon, the euro rose above 91 pence, a level briefly seen last October and in the aftermath of the financial crisis....
...On Wednesday, US stocks fell, the volatility index rose and the dollar dropped 1.6 per cent against the yen. The index tracking the dollar against its peers has dropped to pre-election levels....
...Gold rose 0.1 per cent to $1,287.51 on Friday, back to a two-month high....
...Frankfurt’s Xetra Dax closed up 0.1 per cent and Rome’s FTSE MIB, extending strong gains for the year, rose 0.3 per cent....
...Simon Derrick, an analyst at BNY Mellon, said: “The move today could be an early warning of what could happen when we do trigger Article 50.”...
...The pound rose as Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon announced plans for a second independence referendum, adding to a series of events due in the coming weeks likely to test investors’ sterling appetite...
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