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...That picture is replicated across the eurozone, where the rate stood at 6.4 per cent in January, down from 6.5 per cent in December and 6.6 per cent in January 2023....
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...On the other hand, Simon Kuper (Magazine, Life & Arts, April 6) on Donald Trump’s “potential second presidency” confines himself to “he’d”, “he could” and “he would”....
...The annual pace of growth in average earnings, including bonuses, slowed to 6.5 per cent over the period, the Office for National Statistics said on Tuesday, down from a summer peak of 8.5 per cent and compared...
...“The average quoted two-year mortgage rate shot up to 6.0 per cent in October 2022 following the mini-Budget, whereas it is now 5 per cent. By October we think it will have eased to 4.6 per cent.”...
...But it does not affect a critical count underpinning the case, which alleges a violation of Georgia’s racketeering statute....
...At 6 per cent, it remained much higher in the UK last month than in the US or the eurozone....
...Specification: Economic indicators Click to read the article below and then answer the questions: Markets slash bets on rate cuts after US inflation rises to 3.5% List the inflation rates for January-March...
...Revenue growth was less than 5 per cent....
...Contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite were up 0.5 per cent and 0.6 per cent, respectively, ahead of the New York trading session....
...Annual growth in earnings excluding bonuses slowed to 6.6 per cent, in line with analysts’ expectations and down from 7.3 per cent the previous month....
...This story has been corrected to specify that the deficit widened to 5.5 per cent, not 5.6 per cent....
...The official data released on Tuesday compares with analyst forecasts of 4.6 per cent in a Reuters poll and an expansion of 5.2 per cent for the full year in 2023....
...Intel shares closed 8.2 per cent lower at their lowest level since November after the chipmaker disclosed that operating losses at its foundry unit had widened to $6.96bn in 2023, steeper than the $5.17bn...
...That was down from a summer peak of 8.5 per cent and from 6.7 per cent in the three months to November. Economists polled by Reuters had expected the pace to fall to 5.6 per cent....
...China’s military budget, meanwhile, will expand by 7.2 per cent, matching last year’s rise and continuing a three-decade run of annual growth of at least 6.6 per cent....
...Surely Germany does not define the week incorrectly (“Sunday shopping: Robots at German chain must observe day of rest”, Report, April 6)....
...Michael Gove, UK communities secretary, will on Monday announce a 6.5 per cent increase in funding for local councils in England, but the rise is unlikely to quell fears of a wave of de facto town hall bankruptcies...
...The firm gives you the ability to buy and sell, but the firm charges you at the overnight spot rate. I buy the 10-year at 4.5 per cent and spot is 5.2 per cent; every day I’m writing a cheque....
...“I think what we are seeing in the house price data out this week is that mortgage rates ticked up in March, probably back up to 5 per cent from 4.5 [per cent] in February, and those higher rates are weighing...
...The bigger worry remains whether European carmakers can compete with Chinese rivals when it does....
...organisations and media; and the remaining 5.6 per cent from regional or international organisations....
...Russia’s economy grew 3.6 per cent in 2023, according to the first official estimate published by the Russian statistics office Rosstat on Wednesday....
...Consumer prices rose 3.6 per cent year on year in the March quarter, official data showed, down from 4.1 per cent in the previous quarter but higher than the 3.5 per cent forecast by Reuters....
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