Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as RICS house price balance drops again…and four lenders cut fixed-date mortgage costs ...

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LONDON MARKET OPEN: FTSE 100 underperforms ahead of US inflation data

(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 largely tread water on Thursday morning, though continental peers shot up, with European markets in a largely confident mood ahead of a US inflation report.

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Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed as markets brace for the US inflation report

Asian benchmarks are trading mixed after shares declined on Wall Street and investors braced for a highly anticipated report on U.S. inflation ...

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Don’t try to time the stock market. Just buy high quality, undervalued companies instead

Timing the stock market is impossible. Certainly, some lucky investors have been known to buy stocks shortly before the start of a rampant bull market. Likewise, other investors have, by good fortune, ...

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MARKET REPORT: FTSE ends its two-day losing streak as oil stocks rally on the back of higher Brent Crude prices

On a steady day of gains, the FTSE 100 rose 0.9%, or 69.90 points, to 7597.32 while the FTSE 250 was up 0.4%, or 81.33 points, to 18,922.87.

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