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...USA Gymnastics said Biles would be evaluated daily to determine if she would participate in the four individual events next week....
...The index tracking the dollar against six main currencies rose 0.4 per cent and the euro fell by 0.4 per cent against the greenback....
...US benchmark West Texas Intermediate oil futures touched their best levels since early March, with the July contract rising more than 5 per cent to $35.49 a barrel....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...Campari will be hard hit by COVID-19 due to high On Trade exposure, especially in core markets of Italy and the USA....
...The retreat in the reserve currency still leaves the dollar substantially higher from its early-2018 lows....
...The politics of this could mean that ideas of a ‘parallel’ currency or even leaving the euro, which have previously been floated, might resurface....
...Polo Tang of UBS remains a seller: [V]isibility on the bigger picture issues remains limited....
...Demand for ballistic flares and fighter jet gauges looks to be unaffected by plague, with revenue up 46 per cent and 24 per cent respectively on a constant currency basis....
...Firstly, exposure to the more mature markets falls (UK: 59% to 49% of revenue) with RoW rising from 9% to 31%....
...[W]e look at the net interest income movements in HSBC’s key currencies (USD, HKD, GBP)....
...Tim Bradshaw 49....
...The desire to “make things” is what fires up Winthrop, a 49-year-old serial entrepreneur who has the look and energy of someone 20 years younger....
...Rotork has the single largest exposure in our coverage (~50% v 60% in 2014 though)....
...But the headline manufacturing PMI fell below 50 to 49.2, its lowest level in nearly six years....
...A quick update on what currency trading hedge funds are doing, courtesy of BMO Capital Markets....
...On Thursday, the bank announced another round of changes, including the promotions of Mr Scherr, 54 and Mr Waldron, 49....
...At times in Virgin’s first 49 years, it has seemed unclear what held its portfolio together other than the whims of its founder....
...Closing quotes Lex Apple: USA, USA Won’t somebody please think of the shareholders? Apple found no room for them in Wednesday’s 1,100 word paean to America....
...During the third quarter, revenue on a constant currency basis was up 0.3 per cent to €5.76bn, underperforming Reuters analysts’ estimates of €5.93bn....
...The automation of grain and oilseed volumes rose from 39 to 49 per cent between the periods 2012-14 and 2014-16, the study found....
...Brent hit a 2017 intraday low of $49.71 on March 22. Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong For market updates and comment follow us on Twitter @FTMarkets...
...But the 10-year Bund yield ended 1bp lower at 0.44 per cent, having touched 0.49 per cent. Commodities There was little support for global stock markets from a rally for oil prices....
...West Texas Intermediate, the US marker, was up 1.6 per cent at $48.49, having closed lower by 1.4 per cent on Tuesday....
...Brent crude, the international benchmark, was up 1 per cent at $51.39 a barrel, while West Texas Intermediate gained 1.2 per cent to $49.25....
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