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...The “core” price consumption expenditures figure rose 2 per cent during the fourth quarter, matching the advance estimate but 0.1 percentage point below the second estimate....
...US stocks held steady in early trading on Thursday after revised data showed that economic growth had been stronger than expected in the fourth quarter, a signal that the country’s economy has withstood...
...Gross domestic product grew 3.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, the commerce department said on Wednesday, down from its initial estimate of 3.3 per cent....
...The total assets of all the banks on the problem bank list at the end of last year was $66bn, or about 0.2 per cent of the overall banking sector. Read more here...
...US labour costs rose by the smallest amount since the second quarter of 2021, in a sign that the pace of pay rises is now slowing as the job market cools....
...A technical recession is commonly defined as two consecutive quarters of contracting GDP. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a contraction of 0.1 per cent in the fourth quarter....
...GDP in the eurozone’s second-largest economy was flat in the three months to December, in line with economists’ forecasts in an earlier Reuters poll and following a 0.1 per cent decline in the third quarter...
...Mastercard reported on Wednesday that its sales and earnings rose 13 per cent and 11 per cent respectively in the fourth quarter in another sign of continued health for the economy....
...Family Dollar, which caters mainly to low-income urban customers, reported a 1.2 per cent decline in same-store sales during the fourth quarter....
...The subscriber figure was a record high for the fourth quarter and blew past Wall Street expectations of 8.8mn, as viewers flocked to watch the finales of The Crown and Sex Education....
...While the fourth-quarter rate was slower than the 4.9 per cent expansion recorded in the preceding three month period, it still means the US economy beat expectations for a year when output was expected...
...Earnings per share in BNY Mellon dropped 47 per cent in the final quarter of 2023 from a year earlier, but were up 38 per cent annually....
...The bank’s net income in the quarter dropped to $1.5bn from $2.2bn in the same period a year earlier. For the full year, net income was down 17.6 per cent to $9.1bn. Read more here...
...The proportion of lenders reporting rising defaults on mortgages declined in the final quarter of last year, according to a survey of the Bank of England published on Thursday....
...Italy’s economy expanded 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter, providing a badly needed boost to the eurozone after German gross domestic product shrank 0.3 per cent in the same period....
...Lululemon was on the money for its fourth quarter but signalled that the current one will come in below consensus forecasts. Nike was similarly leery....
...Persimmon beat expectations for new home building last year after a “particularly strong” final quarter when falling mortgage rates helped to boost sales....
...The US group handed over 484,000 cars in the fourth quarter, more than the 473,000 anticipated by analysts but not enough to hold on to its title after BYD reported record sales of battery-only vehicles...
...UK business activity expanded for the fourth consecutive month in February and at the fastest pace since May 2023, according to a closely watched survey, fuelling hopes that the UK recession could already...
...Among the bank’s $4bn in fourth-quarter charges and expenses included $1.7bn it had to pay as part of a “special assessment” from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to recoup losses linked to last...
...Berkshire did not disclose any new investments in the fourth quarter of 2023, although it increased its holdings in satellite radio operator SiriusXM and in oil majors Chevron and Occidental Petroleum....
...The stalling of French gross domestic product in the fourth quarter followed a similar outcome in the third quarter, which was revised up on Tuesday from an earlier estimate of a 0.1 per cent contraction...
...Moynihan said on Tuesday that the bank’s markets businesses would be up single digits from a year ago, which would “probably [be] the best fourth quarter we ever had”....
...Agati said there were hopes that fourth-quarter earnings season would help lift confidence in the rest of the market....
...Fourth-quarter net income of $5.5bn was down 12.4 per cent from a year earlier, but came in at about $1bn above analysts’ forecasts....
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