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...It is unclear exactly when WhatsApp was removed from the Apple Store in China, but it was unavailable as of Friday....
...The yen fell to a new 34-year low on Friday after the Bank of Japan stuck to its dovish tone, holding interest rates near zero despite rising pressure on the central bank to tighten its policy and prop up...
...The elegance of Delaware law is that it has, for decades, struck a fair balance between corporate and shareholder interests....
...At its intraday Friday high of 37,285, the index came within a 5 per cent move of the December 1989 all-time high of 38,915....
...But there is little reason to think a deal will be struck now, after last year’s interest faltered. The London market has its difficulties....
...“But the continued and sometimes painful readjustment to the end of historically low interest rates means the market remains a difficult place in which to transact.”...
...The flipside to higher interest rates is people also want more for their savings....
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...However, net inflows of $57bn disappointed, as investors remain cautious about leaving cash to go back into equity and debt markets while the US Federal Reserve keeps interest rates at a 23-year high....
...If the US raises interest rates again this year, higher car financing costs could further dent demand....
...On Friday the S&P gained 1.1 per cent following the jobs figures, having fallen earlier in the week....
...European stocks slipped slightly in early trading on Friday, after a busy week of central bank policy decisions pushed major indices to all-time highs in the previous trading session....
...Japan’s Topix was the worst-performing benchmark index, shedding 1.3 per cent. The yen weakened past ¥155 a dollar ahead of the Bank of Japan’s interest rate announcement on Friday....
...Hong Kong equities continued to rally on Friday, capping a week of gains after mainland China’s financial regulator announced measures to help the city’s ailing capital markets last Friday....
...Economists expect core personal consumption expenditures — an inflation metric followed inside the Fed — will come in at 2.7 per cent when data for March is released on Friday....
...Back in Argentina, Milei’s La Libertad Avanza coalition faced a political crisis in congress on Friday, with three lawmakers breaking from the bloc following a dispute with the president’s top advisers,...
...Is the rally over? S&P 500 hit an all-time high on Friday but, as my colleagues Nicholas Megaw and Kate Duguid have pointed out, stocks limped to the summit....
...The BoJ on Friday said that it would continue to guide the overnight interest rate to remain in a range of about zero to 0.1 per cent....
...Traders are awaiting the March reading of the US Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, due later on Friday, for signals on the outlook for interest rates in the world’s largest economy....
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...Employment will also be in the spotlight, with the closely watched non-farm payrolls report due on Friday, as traders remain cautious that a hot labour market could delay hoped-for interest rate cuts....
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