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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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...The gains mean the FTSE 100 has risen 3.9 per cent since the start of the year, outperforming the Nasdaq Composite, which is up 2.1 per cent....
...The FTSE 100 had already climbed to a record closing high on Monday....
...The UK’s benchmark stock index gained 1.5 per cent on Friday thanks to strong gains for miners and financial stocks....
...Sterling fell 0.4 per cent to trade at $1.232, its weakest since November....
...That took the PPI’s annual increase to 1.6 per cent, up from 1 per cent in January, and ahead of forecasts of 1.1 per cent....
...RedBird IMI has agreed to acquire All3Media, the London-based TV and film production company behind Fleabag and Squid Game: The Challenge, from Warner Bros Discovery and Liberty Global for £1.15bn....
...The UK’s blue-chip index was down 1.9 per cent by mid-afternoon on Tuesday, exceeding the 1.6 per cent declines of its peers in France and Germany. The mid-cap FTSE 250 fell 1.7 per cent....
...The FTSE 100 climbed above its all-time closing high in morning trading on Friday, as rising commodities prices boosted index heavyweights in the energy and mining sectors....
...France’s Cac 40 added 0.1 per cent....
...The Japanese population fell at a rate of almost 100 people per hour in 2023 as the country logged its biggest ever annual drop since comparable records began in 1950....
...The region-wide Stoxx Europe 600 fell 0.8 per cent, as did London’s FTSE 100. France’s Cac 40 fell 1.1 per cent and Germany’s Dax dropped 1.2 per cent....
...Shares in Shell and BP — two of the world’s biggest oil producers — declined 0.4 per cent and 0.6 per cent, respectively....
...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....
...European stocks slipped from a record closing high, while London’s FTSE 100 closed out its biggest weekly gain since September....
...Shares in Anglo American dropped 1.7 per cent in early trading in London and remain about a third lower than they were at the start of 2023....
...The index, which has lagged behind its peers in Europe in 2024, rose 1.9 per cent on Thursday....
...The company also reported a sharp fall in net income of $215.6mn for 2023, down from $1.03bn....
...But in making the cuts, the cartel has ceded market share to non-member producers, notably the US and Canada....
...Shares in the company sank a further 84 per cent to 0.4p in early trading on Monday, having been worth more than £1.30 in September, before the cost overruns and delays were announced the following month...
...Shares in those seven unglamorous companies are up by an average of around 1,000 per cent over the past 20 years....
...He projected long-term nickel prices — which briefly traded above $100,000 a tonne in 2022 — would be between $18,000 and $19,000....
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