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...The central bank expects inflation, which is running at nearly 65 per cent, to begin easing in the second half of this year....
...The market-implied probability of the first rate cut by June rose from under 60 per cent to 65 per cent, while sterling nudged down 0.12 per cent against the dollar to $1.2777....
...Professor Tim Bale, of Queen Mary, University of London, is sceptical, however....
...Markets now put a 70 per cent probability on the first rate cut being delivered by June, up from around 65 per cent before the Office for National Statistics revealed gross domestic product fell 0.3 per...
...National Savings and Investments, the other channel through which private savers can directly lend money to the government, offers an interest rate of 3.65 per cent on its savings accounts....
...NS&I easy-access savings accounts currently offer an annual equivalent rate of 3.65 per cent. These rates can go up or down and the interest is taxable....
...“In politics, when you straddle a fence, it does not end well,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Democratic strategist. “[Trump] wants it both ways....
...Traders are now pricing a quarter-point cut by that month as a 65 per cent probability, up from 40 per cent before the data was released....
...Since then, Sinn Féin has consistently ranked first in opinion polls, commanding the biggest support of any party across Ireland and in all age groups bar the over-65s....
...The currency has nudged lower in recent days, declining 0.65 per cent on Monday, despite the Bank of Israel announcing last week it would sell up to $30bn of reserves to “moderate volatility in the shekel...
...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....
...The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasuries dropped 0.18 percentage points to 4.62 per cent on its reopening after a US public holiday, before nudging higher to 4.65 per cent....
...Ten-year gilt yields added 0.12 percentage points to 4.65 per cent and rate-sensitive two-year gilts rose to 5 per cent. However, some investors warned against over-interpreting a single day’s moves....
...Its 2120 “century bond” suffered its biggest ever daily decline of 4.4 cents on the dollar to 65.2 cents, the lowest level since the bond was sold in 2020....
...The total value of Argentina’s bonds borrowed by investors to wager on a fall in prices has jumped by 65 per cent since Milei, a self-described “anarcho-capitalist”, won a primary poll last month ahead of...
...US Supreme Court: America’s highest court will hear oral arguments on the abortion pill, which could limit access to the medication less than two years after Roe vs Wade was overturned....
...The pound fell to 1.2626 against the dollar immediately after the announcement, down 0.65 per cent on the day....
...Additional reporting by Mary McDougall...
...The £20 Bloody Mary is not twice as good as one costing £10, but the person who brings it will be twice as personable....
...young people that they are living in a gerontocracy where they have been locked out of social mobility that their parents and grandparents felt entitled to,” said Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary...
...Shane MacGowan, The Pogues’ frontman and punk poet of the Irish diaspora who has died aged 65, found his niche as world music was taking off in the UK in the early 1980s....
...Insights from Eminem, Mary J Blige and Run-DMC round out the book....
...This has affected the outlook for debt in the EU, where, according to the European Commission, the share of the population over 65 will rise from 20 per cent now to 30 per cent by 2050, as well as in Japan...
...In the case of St Mary’s Hospital in London, these weak foundations are all too literal....
...I’ve opted for Grenson’s chunky leather take on the Mary Jane, with its cushioned sole....
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