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Financial rout spreads as US 30-year yield hits 5%

BLOOMBERG The selloff in US Treasuries extended into a third straight day, with 30-year yields touching 5% for the first time since 2007 and sending global financial markets into a tailspin. As conviction grew that US interest rates could rise further from current 22-year highs, 10-year Treasury yields also climbed closer to the key 5% threshold. That pushed the MSCI ...

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UK retailers demand crackdown to stop wave of shoplifting

BLOOMBERG Retailers ranging from Tesco Plc to Burberry Group Plc have called for immediate action from the UK government to tackle the rise in shoplifting that’s emerged during the nation’s cost-of-living crisis. Almost 90 retail chiefs have signed a letter to Home Secretary Suella Braverman asking for the government to create a standalone offense of assaulting a retail worker, along ...

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Air France-KLM’s Nordic foray gives boost to consolidation

BLOOMBERG Air France KLM’s plan to buy a stake in troubled Scandinavian carrier SAS AB gives the long-overdue consolidation of European airlines a jolt as more regional operators come under the control of three big groups. The Franco-Dutch carrier said that it will invest as much as $144.5 million for 19.9% of SAS, with the option to take a controlling ...

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