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...The US Federal Reserve’s quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey last week showed that 46 per cent of US banks plan to raise their lending standards owing to worries about loan losses and deposit flight...
...“In politics, when you straddle a fence, it does not end well,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist. “[Trump] wants it both ways....
...A record £50bn in corporate pension deals took place in 2023 involving about 46 schemes, according to WTW, which predicts full buyout deals could reach £60bn this year....
...Markets are betting that the ECB will deliver 1.46 percentage points of rate cuts this year, down from 1.64 at the start of the week, with the probability of the first cut in March falling to around a half...
...The 2073 bond was auctioned with a cut-off yield of 7.46 per cent, according to the Reserve Bank of India, lower than a 40-year bond auctioned last week and the current 30-year bond, which has a yield of...
...Inès Cross The Standard, London, until 22 June SEE Mary Lovelace O’Neal at Marianne Boesky After a 60-year career, Mary Lovelace O’Neal shows no signs of slowing down....
...If the bondholder had to pay income tax on the capital uplift as well as the coupon, the yield would have to be 8.46 per cent for higher-rate taxpayers and 9.20 per cent for additional-rate taxpayers for...
...As investors bought bonds, 10-year gilt yields, which move inversely to prices, fell 0.18 percentage points to 4.46 per cent....
...Markets are now pricing in multiple more rate hikes, to a peak of 5.71 per cent by the end of the year, up from an expected peak rate of 5.46 per cent last week....
...Benchmark two-year gilt yields, which are highly sensitive to interest rate expectations, rose 0.08 percentage points on Thursday to 5.46 per cent, the highest level since 2008....
...Similarly, Japanese government bonds have weakened somewhat, but with 10-year yields at 0.46 per cent, the market is not staging a serious challenge to the BoJ’s current stance....
...The rand dropped 1.4 per cent to R19.46 to the US dollar, bringing total losses for the year to date of 12.61 per cent, and passing its previous record low of 19.35 in April 2020....
...The US Federal Reserve’s quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey this week showed that 46 per cent of US banks plan to raise their lending standards due to worries about loan losses and deposit flight...
...the first edition of the international tournament held outside Europe US: thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators are set to march on Washington for the second time since the Supreme Court overturned Roe...
...On Thursday, the Bank of England’s mortgage approvals are also forecast to show an improvement, with Investec expecting a rise to 46,000 in March from 43,500 in February....
...I’ve opted for Grenson’s chunky leather take on the Mary Jane, with its cushioned sole....
...“Roe Deer and Landscape” resembles portraiture as the subject holds our gaze....
...The writer is professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London There will not be a UK general election tomorrow, however much political pollsters prod voters to say how they would vote in one....
...The equivalent PMI for the eurozone came in at 47.1 in September, above analysts’ forecasts of 46.5....
...The epigrams at the start of each chapter are all from bards of the magical ordinary: Mary Oliver, Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau....
...The OECD expects a planned 15 per cent global business tax floor on large multinationals will raise $220bn a year when implemented, a 46 per cent increase from previous estimates....
...The traditional panettone here costs €46 per kilo, or €76 in a special gift box....
...The court blamed Roe for failing to settle the abortion debate and for creating the nation’s culture wars. No credible historian believes that Roe alone did the damage that Dobbs describes....
...Richter’s record at auction stands at the equivalent of $46.4mn, made for a 1986 “Abstraktes Bild” sold at Sotheby’s London in 2015....
...Harra said the so-called debt balance — the total amount of tax owed by individuals and companies — rose from £42bn in August to £46.9bn in September....
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