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...The UK’s FTSE 100 closed at a record high, boosted by weakness in the pound and rising expectations of interest rate cuts from the Bank of England....
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...Sterling fell 0.4 per cent to trade at $1.232, its weakest since November....
...Declines in European equity markets were led by banks, miners, and energy groups, which are over-represented in the commodity-heavy FTSE 100....
...London’s FTSE 100 led equity markets higher in Europe, buoyed by strong gains for supermarkets and index heavyweights in the banking sector....
...London’s FTSE 100 closed in on its record high on Friday as investors grew more confident that the central bank would make multiple interest rate cuts this year....
...At Citi, the figure increased nearly 100 basis points to 3.7 per cent. JPMorgan paid a rate of 2.85 per cent, up from 1.85 per cent in the prior-year period....
...For the week, the FTSE 100 advanced 2.6 per cent, as investors grew more optimistic that the Bank of England will deliver multiple interest rate cuts in 2024. Markets in Europe were subdued....
...The FTSE 100 closed at its highest level since April after both the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England voted to keep interest rates on hold....
...Shares in those seven unglamorous companies are up by an average of around 1,000 per cent over the past 20 years....
...A concern that the Swiss National Bank had waited too long was evident in its statement after cutting rates to 1.5 per cent last month....
...At less than 1 per cent of its market value annualised that is not much compared with the average of more than 4 per cent achieved already, or coming, from European and UK banks, according to Citi estimates...
...The S&P 500 fell 0.2 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.1 per cent....
...At Disney, she oversees an array of TV businesses including ABC and ABC News, Disney’s TV studios, FX and National Geographic — all of which are in decline thanks to cord-cutting viewers ditching cable subscriptions...
...France’s Cac 40 rose 0.8 per cent and Germany’s Dax climbed 1.6 per cent. London’s FTSE 100 lagged behind its European peers....
...France’s CAC 40 fell 0.2 per cent, Germany’s Dax dropped 0.4 per cent, and London’s FTSE 100 slipped 0.1 per cent....
...Brevan, which manages about $35bn in assets, is shedding just under 10 per cent of its 1,100-person workforce, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter....
...Over the latest one-year period, the largest banks in essence originated 100% of C&I, 100% of mortgage, 63% of consumer and 57% of CRE loans provided by the banks (“the flow”)....
...The blue-chip FTSE 100 was up 1.1 per cent shortly before noon in London. The more domestically focused mid-cap FTSE 250 was up 0.7 per cent....
...The lion’s share of that fee — about $1.80 — goes to the bank that issued the credit card that is being used....
...The watchdog, which issued a A$1.3bn (US$860mn) fine against bank Westpac over compliance issues in 2020, has been targeting the gambling sector lately, including the country’s casinos and gaming companies...
...The benchmark FTSE 100 index rose 1.4 per cent after the news, putting it on track to close at a record high....
...Germany’s Dax and London’s FTSE 100 were both flat. Investors are awaiting monetary policy decisions this week from the Bank of Japan, Federal Reserve, and Bank of England....
...Worse, banks have cut specialised loans to oil and gas companies as a direct result of the tax....
..., Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Citigroup....
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