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...World equity markets 6.7 per cent, UK 6.9, Japan 7.3, Germany 7.8, Brazil 6.2, USA 6.9....
...Since we last met the FTSE 100 is up 3.6 per cent, the Stoxx 600 is better by 3.8 per cent and the S&P 500 is 1.7 per cent to the good. Why?...
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...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....
...0.00%) at 5,317 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 12,861 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.19) $/¥ 113.01 (112.10) £/$ 1.34 (1.35) €/£ 0.8818 (0.8818) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.30 at 63.43 Light Crude...
...London and the wealthiest catchment areas in the United States....
...Japan’s Topix was picking up in afternoon trading, gaining 0.1 per cent. Currencies were stabilising after a drop in the US dollar....
...The economic calendar leans heavily towards the state of Europe’s manufacturing and services sectors (all times London): 08.00: France manufacturing, services purchasing managers’ index 08.00: European...
...That means the single currency area should match the US’s growth in 2017....
...It dropped 0.8 per cent as investors awaited the outcome of a key gubernatorial election for the state of Mexico, but then reversed course to show a of rise 0.6 per cent to 18.5685 per dollar as officials...
...unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,431 Currencies €/$ 1.12 (1.12) $/¥ 102.04 (102.09) £/$ 1.32 (1.32) €/£ 0.8496 (0.8492) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.39 at 46.20 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.33...
...) at 4,491 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,573 Currencies €/$ 1.12 (1.12) $/¥ 102.52 (102.65) £/$ 1.33 (1.33) €/£ 0.8471 (0.8462) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.86 at 47.15 Light Crude (Nymex...
...In New York, the S&P 500 closed 0.9 per cent lower, while European stocks lost 1.9 per cent with bank stocks the focus as Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, ruled out providing state aid for Deutsche Bank...
...The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite both finished 0.5 per cent higher while the dollar index, a measure of the US currency against a basket of global peers, eased 0.1 per cent....
...Futures suggest the S&P 500, a US equity gauge that tends to set the global tone, will be little changed at 2,099.6 when the opening bell rings later in New York....
...3,985 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 9,269 Currencies €/$ 1.11 (1.10) $/¥ 101.87 (101.99) £/$ 1.33 (1.32) €/£ 0.8314 (0.833) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.59 at 47.75 Light Crude (Nymex) up +...
...Like-for-like retail sales dropped 0.8 per cent before fuel in the first quarter at Sainsbury....
...There is historical precedence for such a scenario: the 2000 election was ultimately decided in mid-December in the now famous Bush v. Gore Supreme Court ruling....
...a ‘U’ or ‘V’ shaped recovery,” said Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank....
...The German ZEW economic sentiment survey at 10am BST is the only significant data release in Europe, with a reading of 8 expected for April, up from 4.3 in March....
...A 0.8 per cent rise for sterling to $1.4356 helped push the dollar index down 0.3 per cent to 99.05....
...This recorded a 5 per cent increase in operating profits at constant currencies....
...At the close of trade in New York, the S&P 500 equity index was up 0.8 per cent at 2,021, after recording a 3.2 per cent decline in the two sessions following the Federal Reserve’s landmark decision to raise...
...China’s currency weakened against the dollar on Monday despite the sharpest rise in the daily renminbi fix in a decade....
...This would be well below the 1.3 per cent jump a year earlier, bringing the annual rate of increase down to 3.0 per cent from 3.8 per cent in October....
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