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...The S&P 500 closed at a record high, finishing a busy week of corporate earnings, central bank announcements and labour market data on a positive note....
...The blue-chip S&P 500 dropped 1 per cent, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 2 per cent....
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...The rest of the eurozone “saw the best performance . . . despite growth slowing slightly”, S&P said....
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...Tech stocks, which played a leading role in propelling the S&P 500 to a record high in January, fell on Wednesday....
...The Bank of Japan is likely to hold off from raising interest rates next week but investors expect the central bank to outline its response to rising inflationary pressures caused by the yen’s decline....
...The 10-year Treasury yield has risen 0.29 percentage points this year, while the two-year yield has added 0.2 percentage points as central bank officials pushed back on investor hopes that they would cut...
...Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey this week told university students that the low valuations of UK banks puzzles him....
...The domestic stock market index, the ASE, is up almost 40 per cent over the past year, outperforming the S&P 500....
...The relative performance of the S&P 500 banks index compared with the broader benchmark is at its weakest since the bank-specific measure began in 1989....
...The Bank of England this month opened the door to cutting interest rates....
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