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The UK economy rebounded by more than expected in January, driven by growth in the services sector, according to official statistics published ahead of the Budget next week. Gross domestic product rose 0.3 per cent between December and January, following a contraction the previous month, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday. This was
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Good morning. Welcome to jobs day. Forecasters think there were 205,000 jobs added in February. They thought something similar last month, before the real January number, more than half a million jobs, blew everyone away. Since then, many have taken to waving away strong January data as a warm-winter fluke. Another bumper payrolls report today
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The writer is a former global head of asset allocation at a fund manager Time and time again, betting against Japanese government bonds has cost traders untold fortunes. The pay-off for going short on JGBs has always looked tempting and risks asymmetric. Potential losses appear limited given that yields, which move inversely to prices, cannot
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Silicon Valley Bank shares plunged 60 per cent on Thursday, a day after launching a $2.25bn stock sale to shore up its balance sheet as it grapples with declining deposits from technology start-ups. Shares of SVB Financial Group, Silicon Valley Bank’s parent company, registered their biggest-ever decline, wiping $9.6bn from the banking group’s market capitalisation,
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The financial sector has been, uh, thoroughly spooked by a 60-per-cent single-day slide in the shares of SVB Financial, the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank. SVB hasn’t done much better in after-hours trading, sliding more than 20 per cent after reports that venture capital firms such as Founders Fund (co-founded by Peter Thiel) are
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The British government will delay building the Birmingham to Crewe leg of the HS2 rail line and its link into central London, along with a number of road projects, as ministers grapple with the impact of inflation on capital budgets. HS2, which has long been dogged by cost overruns and delays, is being built in
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Just when you might have thought that financial markets could not turn any funkier — they have. On Tuesday, Jay Powell, US Federal Reserve chair, indicated that the Fed may raise rates further than expected in order to combat inflation. Two-year Treasury yields duly jumped above 5 per cent for the first time since 2007.
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Russia has carried out one of its largest strikes on Ukraine including with nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles that hit cities and knocked off back-up power at Europe’s largest atomic plant. Of the more than 80 rockets fired, six were nuclear-capable hypersonic Kh-47 Kinzhal air-to-surface missiles, according to Ukrainian officials. The assault has left much of Kyiv
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