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...Polymath 1049: Mary Whittaker, Leicester, England Crossword 16,326: Simon Dare, Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword...
...) at 15,298 Topix up +6.64 (+0.54%) at 1,230 Hang Seng up +69.39 (+0.30%) at 23,184 US markets S&P 500 up +11.22 (+0.63%) at 1,787 DJIA up +129.21 (+0.82%) at 15,885 Nasdaq up +28.54 (+0.71%) at 4,030...
...) at 4,072 Dax up +20.94 (+0.25%) at 8,359 Currencies €/$ 1.33 (1.33) $/¥ 97.30 (96.85) £/$ 1.55 (1.55) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.01 at 108.98 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.04 at 106.15 100 Oz...
...1.91% UK 1.90% Germany 1.36% CDS (closing levels) Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe -0.3bps at 89.59bp Markit iTraxx Europe +3.96bps at 96.82bp Markit iTraxx Xover +13.5bps at 396.2bp Markit CDX IG +1.46bps...
...February's reading was adjusted up to 230,000 from 216,000 but the news was unable to lift markets. Overall, the S&P 500 lost 1 per cent to fall below the 1,400 mark and finished at 1,398.96....
...French miner Eramet lost 1.5 per cent to €230.75....
...Prior to 6 April 2008, there was a starting rate of tax (10 per cent) for income up to £2,230....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...“On the Friday before the start of the Premiership season alone, over 230,000 office hours were spent on the fantasy football sites.”...
...Christian Stracke: By our calculations, the net asset value of a CPDO that launched at the roll of Series 7 CDX / Series 6 iTraxx in September 2006 (when the first deals were emerging) will be roughly 96...
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