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...Yet in contrast to a 4.7 per cent rise by the S&P 500 index this month, China’s benchmark CSI 300 index of stocks listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen has fallen more than 3 per cent....
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...The UK hub airport is experiencing surging demand for travel across all its key routes, leading it to raise its forecasts for full-year passenger numbers from 81.4mn to 82.4mn, which would beat 2019’s previous...
...Steven Kelly is associate director of research at the Yale Program on Financial Stability and publishes research notes at his Substack, Without Warning....
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...Purchases by those state investors have been limited to shares in state banks and ETFs that track benchmark indices — far more restrained than 2015’s buying spree....
...By comparison, the S&P 500 rose more than 24 per cent over the same period....
...“I remember being told to go to M&S to buy lunch for a big client meeting, and returning with loads of bread and butter to make sandwiches....
...“Small businesses are not that stable and for a single one it’s very difficult to predict the revenue; maybe it can’t survive,” says Ke Chen, chief analytics officer at CSPI and a former analyst at S&P Global...
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index and China’s CSI 300 both shed 0.3 per cent, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 fell 1 per cent....
...P/ASX 200 rose 0.3 per cent.The gains in Asia tracked S&P 500 futures, which rose 0.5 per cent after Amazon reported third-quarter pre-tax earnings of $11.2bn, well above analyst expectations....
...The MSCI China index is set to finish the year down more than 17 per cent, compared to a rise of more than 24 per cent for the S&P 500 in the US....
...“If you were to forgo that domestic production you would not get the tax revenues to fund public services,” Claire Coutinho told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, adding that some of that revenue can be used...
...Elsewhere in the region, Japan’s Topix rose 1.3 per cent and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 climbed 0.1 per cent....
...China’s CSI 300 index stock index has fallen nearly 9 per cent this year, compared with a 19 per cent rise in the US S&P 500, amid concerns about Beijing’s lack of forceful policy support in response to...
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index led the region higher with a rise of 1.8 per cent, while Japan’s Topix rose 0.2 per cent and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.4 per cent....
...Liam Kelly, chair of the Police Federation for Northern Ireland, which represents rank-and-file officers, said MI5’s latest assessment showed the wider security situation was “moving in the right direction...
...Charles Peabody of Portales Partners disagrees with Kelly....
...Construction PMIs: The UK’s S&P Global/Cips August construction purchasing managers’ index data will be published. Analysts polled by Reuters forecast a reading of 50.5, down from 51.7 in July....
...Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 was down 1.2 per cent after the country’s central bank held rates steady, while yield on the benchmark 10-year Australian government bond rose 0.07 percentage points on expectations...
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