The Dow Jones Industrial Average touched the 40,000 mark and refused to give back recent gains Thursday. Chubb climbed sharply as it became the latest major Warren Buffett holding. The Dow crossed the 40,000 mark several times throughout the morning as it lifted marginally after rallying 0.9% on Wednesday.
As Oracle shares hit record highs after it reveals “largest contracts in our history.”
A tough new raft of U.S. sanctions sent jitters rippling through the Russian financial system Thursday and forced Moscow’s main financial trading platform to halt dollar and euro transactions, further raising the cost of President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. The sharp escalation in sanctions by the Treasury Department prompted former Russian president and prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, now a senior security official, to call on the population to “inflict maximum harm” on Western socie
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Britain is at its most dangerous economic juncture for decades. We are living so far beyond our means that we’re becoming detached from reality. GDP flatlined in April and our best case scenario for 2024, a full two years after the pandemic ended, is around 1pc growth. Total government revenues from taxes and other sources are scheduled to reach 41pc this year compared with 37pc in 2019-20 and 32pc in the 1990s.
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As one skeptic notes, margins the size of Nvidia’s don’t last long: “That’s analyst training 101.”
As the countdown to the general election continues, Labour’s charm offensive on tax is about to crank into overdrive as it officially launches its manifesto pledges.
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An increase in capital gains tax under a Labour government would actually cause receipts to the Treasury to decline, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) data has suggested.
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The Bank of England will start cutting interest rates in August, according to all but two of 65 economists polled by Reuters, and most of them expect at least one more reduction this year despite persistently high pay and services inflation. One of the first central banks to start raising rates following the worst of the COVID pandemic, the BoE lifted Bank Rate by 515 basis points between December 2021 and August 2023 to a 16-year high of 5.25% to tackle soaring price pressures in the economy. Only two of 65 economists polled expected the BoE to wait until September to cut rates instead of August.
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Labour will raise taxes by £8.6bn to fund its spending pledges – but this could be just the tip of the iceberg, economists have warned.
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Senior economists have complained to BBC about Laura Kuenssberg comparing Whitehall spending to taking out a credit card
Institutions that own large stakes in the electric-vehicle maker aren’t going to vote against giving CEO Elon Musk more money, hampering Tesla stock.
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