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Of the top ten fund groups by assets, only BlackRock, Aviva, and HSBC saw inflows.

Philip Webster was appointed portfolio manager of the CT UK High Income trust in April 2017.

'This weakness in May should be understood as a one-off, and a reversal can be expected in next month’s data.'

Investing.com — European stock markets are expected to open in a mixed fashion, as investors digest the softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data as well as weak U.K. growth data.

(Reuters) -Domino’s Pizza Group (LON:DOM) said on Thursday Andrew Rennie, who has served as the Europe chief for a major franchise operator of the pizza chain, will join the UK firm in August as its chief executive.

HCL Technologies has inked an agreement  to buy a 100% stake in the German automotive engineering services company ASAP Group for EUR 251.1 million (about ₹2,300 crore), said the company in an exchange filing on Wednesday. As per the company's filing, the acquisition is anticipated to be completed by September 2023 through an all-cash transaction through the company's UK subsidiary, subject to regulatory approvals.

Economic output fell 0.1% in May from April, the ONS said. A Reuters poll of economists had pointed to a contraction of 0.3% from April.

heat records, one of the world’s biggest green investors says fund managers need to sit up and take note.Impax Asset Management Group Plc, which oversees about £40 billion ($50 billion) in client assets, has found that portfolio companies generally don’t know how extreme heat can affect their valuations. Heat waves “are a threat to revenue loss, productivity and the supply chain,” Matthew Wright, a research analyst at Impax who specialises in studying the fallout on asset values of climate change, said in an interview. The phenomenon has the potential to disrupt all sectors, but some are more vulnerable than others, he said.

Garena Free Fire Max is a revamped version of Garena Free Fire. It debuted in 2021 and became popular after the ban of the former by the Indian government. Developers of the game keep updating these codes daily.

Bloomberg reports.  In an official statement, Edwards’ wife Vicky Flind informed that he suffers from “serious mental health issues" that have been worsened by the controversy. "He’s receiving care in the hospital, where he’ll stay for the foreseeable future" Last week, The Sun newspaper reported that an unidentified BBC presenter had paid £35,000 ($45,000) for sexually explicit images over a three-year period.

FTC) said on Wednesday it was appealing a federal judge's ruling that Microsoft could go forward with its $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard. Microsoft's victory in court on Tuesday, and a subsequent climbdown by Britain's competition authority, brought the tech giant two steps closer to finalizing its tie-up with Activision, Microsoft's biggest deal ever. Still, any outstanding regulatory hurdle makes it more likely that the agreement between Microsoft and Activision will expire on July 18 without the deal having been completed.

Harry & Meghan, has failed to secure any Emmy nominations. The six-part series, directed by Liz Garbus, was under consideration for the Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series category.

Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Wednesday moved an application before a special court seeking the release of the ₹71 crore worth of property owned by fugitive diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is accused of duping the bank, to recover a part of its dues, according to PTI reports.  Nirav Modi was declared a 'fugitive economic offender' in December 2019, and his uncle Mehul Choksi is accused of committing a ₹14,000 crore scam by obtaining credit facilities fraudulently from the PNB and several of the former's properties, as well as that of his kin, were attached by the Enforcement Directorate under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Currently, only ₹1,066.41 crore of properties have been released from attachment under the PMLA and this value is grossly insufficient to meet the quantifiable loss, it said.  It added that there is an immediate need for the speedy disposal of the assets to realize their best value.

As British interest rates rise, British mortgage payers are hurting. The Bank of England's July financial stability report says that over a million households in the UK are faced with the prospect of their mortgages increasing by £500 a month. However, around 400,000 UK households are on track for an increase of over £1k a month in their mortgage repayments. And plenty of people in that category work in finance. 

inflation data bolstered hopes that the Federal Reserve could end its interest rate hikes soon.  The S&P 500 gained 33.40 points, or 0.75%, at 4,472.66 points. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 160.30 points, or 1.16%, at 13,921.00. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 92.17 points, or 0.27%, at 34,353.59.

It's not just memos about the new leadership of the markets business that have been going out at Credit Suisse today. Sources at the bank in London say they've also been receiving information on their imminent departures. 

K-Pop icons BTS was released on Sunday – and from publishers to etailers and physical bookstores, everyone has been busy number-crunching ever since. “Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS sold 25,000 copies in the Indian subcontinent on the day it released – including 5,000 pre-orders,” said Rajdeep Mukherjee, managing director at Pan Macmillan India, which published the English translation in India in sync with a worldwide release in Korean and English.

NEW DELHI : India is considering offering higher tariff concessions for bulk whisky imports compared to bottled whisky as part of the ongoing India-UK free-trade agreement (FTA) negotiations. The approach aims to encourage the import of intermediate products and address a contentious issue in the trade discussions. The Indian government contends that bulk whisky imports can generate employment by setting up bottling plants in the country, as against finished products.

Nvidia will invest $50 million to speed up training of Recursion's artificial intelligence models for drug discovery, the companies said on Wednesday, sending the biotech firm's shares surging about 83%. Recursion, whose advisers include AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, will use its biological and chemical datasets exceeding 23,000 terabytes to train AI models on Nvidia's cloud platform. Nvidia, seen as a big winner of the boom in artificial intelligence, could then license those models to biotech firms through BioNeMo, a generative AI cloud service for drug discovery that it rolled out earlier this year.

Mikel Arteta has a full squad available for the friendly match, following a behind-closed-doors draw with Watford. Players like Kai Havertz, Declan Rice, and Jurrien Timber may make an appearance, although their transfers might not be finalized by then. However, Albert Sambi Lokonga will be absent due to injury. Date, Kick

Barbie movie would have as much craze as Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer. In London for the UK premiere of Barbie, hundreds of fans started queuing up in the wee hours, as early as 3 am local time, to be the first to catch a glimpse of the Barbie stars. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are the leading stars of Barbie, a movie that is the sarcastic take on the Mattel doll.