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UK gilts suffer biggest collapse since March 2020 meltdown

LONDON (Reuters) – British government bond prices plunged on Thursday in their biggest daily drop si...

22nd September, 2022

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Bank of England raises rates to 2.25%, despite likely recession

By David Milliken and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England raised its key interest...

22nd September, 2022

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Bank of England hikes rates by 50 bps as economy slows

LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England raised its key interest rate to 2.25% from 1.75% on Thursday...

22nd September, 2022

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Factbox-Government measures to ease inflation pain

(Reuters) – Pandemic-related disruption to global supply chains and the knock-on effects of Russia’s...

22nd September, 2022

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UK watchdog clarifies post-Brexit conditions for share trading licences

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s financial watchdog set out plans on Thursday to clarify wh...

22nd September, 2022

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EU considers more action to tame energy prices, fix liquidity squeeze

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission is working on more measures to tame sky-...

22nd September, 2022

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Banks face legal risks if they don’t stick to climate goals, ECB says

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Banks face the risk of being sued if they don’t stick to their climate goals o...

22nd September, 2022

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Polymetal shares down as gold miner scraps final dividend

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian gold and silver producer Polymetal said on Thursday it had decided to can...

22nd September, 2022

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Australia mourns Queen Elizabeth from home of ‘world’s oldest continuous culture’

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia held a national day of mourning for Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday, with...

22nd September, 2022

Image for Sterling pulls off 37-year low as a slew of central banks hike rates
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Sterling pulls off 37-year low as a slew of central banks hike rates

By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling rose, after slipping to a fresh 37-year low, against a we...

22nd September, 2022

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Fed delivers another big rate hike; Powell vows to ‘keep at it’

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell vowed o...

22nd September, 2022

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Analysis-Europe says goodbye to negative rates – or just ‘au revoir’?

By Mark John and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s decade-long experiment with negative i...

22nd September, 2022