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...Weekly audience reach of broadcast TV fell to 79 per cent in 2022 from 83 per cent in 2021, Ofcom said in its 2023 media nations report on Thursday....
...She and her husband have just sold their home of 24 years in Hackney, east London, to move to a house outside Wells, in Somerset, within walking distance of the Mendip Hills....
...The latest in several 48-hour RMT walkouts planned by the RMT over the Christmas period will begin on Tuesday....
...It was £79 a bottle and I see they’re now asking £106, unfortunately....
...Many smaller countries are in favour, with only 79 nations having ever appeared in the finals of the tournament....
...Its stock rose as high as $76.79 in early trading after the company sold 25m shares at $52 a piece, raising $1.3bn in proceeds....
...Of the positive cases who were contacted, 79 per cent were reached within 24 hours of their case being transferred to the test and trace system, and a further 14 per cent between 24 and 48 hours....
...Sun Yu 48....
...Mark Vandevelde 48....
...Even BlackRock, the world’s biggest provider of cheap exchange traded funds that are deepening the industry’s miasma, suffered a fall of 24 per cent in its stock last year....
...Studio quality is defined as both hi-res audio (48khz/20-bit or higher) and the studio production format of 44.1 kHz/24-bit audio)....
...A national energy blueprint is expected to increase the target for capacity outside coal to more than 24,000MW by 2030, including gas-fired generation....
...Meanwhile, West Texas Intermediate was trading 3.48 per cent weaker to $68.25 per barrel. Energy’s drop weighed on stocks more broadly....
...The average fee rate of BlackRock’s funds slipped to 0.179 per cent in the third quarter, down from 0.189 per cent a year ago, and 0.223 per cent seven years ago, according to Morgan Stanley....
...Gam • Currently at: 20 King Street, 63 and 64 St James’s Street (48,735 sq ft)• Moving to: 8 Finsbury Circus (48,500 sq ft)• Upping sticks: early 2019 The $160bn Swiss fund manager recently warned staff...
...But better online sales growth across the board kept group revenues up, with gross margins expanding from 47.4 per cent to 48.2 per cent....
...Markets at 0800 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -61.79 (-0.26%) at 23,788 Topix up +2.82 (+0.15%) at 1,892 Hang Seng up +72.89 (+0.24%) at 31,084 US markets S&P 500 up +3.58 (+0.13%) at 2,751 DJIA up...
...0758 GMT Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -19.04 (-0.08%) at 22,765 Topix down -1.47 (-0.08%) at 1,818 Hang Seng up +35.26 (+0.12%) at 30,551 US markets S&P 500 up +22.20 (+0.83%) at 2,696 DJIA up +104.79...
...Shares have recovered some of the ground lost earlier in the week, closing at £7.48 on Thursday. But as recently as early June the company was trading at more £30....
...Letter revenues were down 3 per cent in the nine months to December 24....
...West Texas Intermediate, the US oil benchmark, was down almost 1.4 per cent on the day at $45.79 a barrel....
...Brent crude, the global benchmark, was up 1.5 per cent at $48.23 a barrel. West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, was up 1.7 per cent $45.79. Both ended the previous session up 1.4 per cent....
...Revenue grew 20 per cent in the 40 weeks to June 24, with currency moves accounting for half of this....
...Revenues in the period were up 6 per cent to £156.8m, helping to lift underlying pre-tax profit by 12 per cent to £24.5m. On a statutory basis, pre-tax profit was up 25 per cent to £21.9m....
...at 27,530 US markets S&P 500 up +7.69 (+0.31%) at 2,466 DJIA up +54.33 (+0.25%) at 21,808 Nasdaq up +17.74 (+0.28%) at 6,393 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +1.54 (+0.10%) at 1,470 FTSE100 down -18.79...
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