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...US stocks fell on Friday as traders trimmed their bets on interest rate cuts, with the benchmark S&P 500 falling 0.6 per cent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite down 1 per cent....
...In the stock market, the S&P 500 was down 0.8 per cent in mid-day trade and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 1.3 per cent, pulled lower by tech stocks following Tuesday’s weaker than expected growth forecasts...
...The S&P 500 has hovered just short of its January 2022 record in thin post-Christmas trading before dipping 0.3 per cent on Friday’s last trading day....
...Wall Street stocks continued their ascent on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 adding 0.5 per cent — edging closer to a record high....
...The yields on 10-year German Bunds fell by 0.08 percentage points to 2.04 per cent, the lowest level since March, after S&P said its survey of purchasing managers signalled the fastest decline in business...
...Credit rating agency S&P Global downgraded Ethiopia’s debt to default on December 15 after the initial deadline for payment was missed....
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...US equities were less affected than bonds, with Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 down 0.1 per cent and the tech-dominated Nasdaq Composite up 0.2 per cent by midday in New York....
...Alistair Darling, Brown’s successor, told the Financial Times the Labour government felt vindicated in that approach as it meant that during the financial crisis in 2008 the UK had less debt to roll over...
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...On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 fell 1 per cent, and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite dipped 1.1 per cent....
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...S&P Global Ratings this week forecast a 5 per cent contraction for Israel’s economy in the last three months of this year....
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...But, as S&P puts it when explaining why U.S....
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