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PARIS, April 23 Reuters Shares in Vivendi rose on Friday after the French media conglomerate, which is controlled by billionaire Vincent Bollore, posted higher first quarter sales. Vivendis shares were up by 1.5 in early session trading, while the shares of Groupe Bollore also edged up 0.5. Vivendis sales were lifted by the prolonged strong […]

LONDON, April 23 Reuters Sterling rebounded on Friday from a sharp fall on Thursday after strong retail sales data and business surveys showed Britains economy might already be recovering from its worst annual contraction in 300 years. British retail sales rocketed last month as consumers prepared for a partial lifting of coronavirus lockdown restrictions, according […]

MOSCOW, April 23 Reuters The rouble strengthened past 75 to a more than onemonth high against the dollar on Friday, after the central bank hiked its key rate and Russia said it had started withdrawing troops from the area near the border with Ukraine. The central bank, which had been widely expected to raise rates […]

The author is editoratlarge for finance and markets at Reuters News. Any views expressed here are his own LONDON, April 23 Reuters For all the bad press, muchmaligned hedge funds have had their best start to the year in decades, while mixed stock and bond funds flattered to deceive and even macro hedge funds are […]

Rates as of 0500 GMT Market Recap Not much movement in the FX world overnight. EUR was particularly quiet, given that there was a European Central Bank meeting yesterday you wouldnt know it by looking at the rates. Thats because the policy statement following the meeting was largely unchanged and the press conference waswell, just […]