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US banks announce dividend payouts after passing Fed’s ‘stress tests’
Banks said they would return excess capital to shareholders after Fed concluded they could withstand a severe downturn
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Five stocks power US markets to 14% gain for first half of 2024
Some investors are nervous that much of the rally has been driven by a few ‘megacap’ tech companies
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Dress, nails, spray tan, helicopter: have school proms gone too far?
Parents will stop at nothing to help their children celebrate the end of exam season
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French stocks and bonds sink ahead of election
Paris’s Cac 40 stock index on course for worst quarter in two years
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Business and buy-to-let owners act on CGT fears
Surge of transactions ahead of the UK general election
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How not to blow up your bond market
Political powers in France and UK need to demonstrate competence that keeps markets on side
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An alarming moment for US democracy
Joe Biden looks too frail to fulfil his mission of defeating Donald Trump
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Wealthy French make post-election contingency plans
‘The question we get asked most frequently is if money is safe in France’




