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1) Royal Mail liable to being damaged up after £3.6bn international takeover | Fears postal service will probably be carved up as Czech billionaire nears full possession

2) Shell and Exxon to promote £390m fuel fields in North Sea exit | Oil giants finish 60-year lengthy enterprise in British oil basin

3) Millennial homeownership hits 12-year excessive as younger get richer | Wages amongst younger folks have risen sooner than the overall inhabitants since 2015

4) How copying America’s money-printing scheme might save British taxpayers billions | Without change, the Bank of England will probably be a pressure on the Treasury for many years to come back

5) BBC cyber assault exposes particulars of 25,000 present and former workers | Employees advised to remain ‘vigilant’ after raid on pension scheme information

What occurred in a single day

In America, the S&P 500 closed down 0.7pc, at 5,266.95, whereas the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 30 main US firms closed down 1.1pc, at 38,441.54, whereas the Nasdaq Composite index fell 0.6pc, to shut at 16,920.58.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year US Treasury bonds hit a four-week excessive at 4.61pc, up from 4.54pc late on Tuesday.

Hong Kong shares opened with one other loss on Thursday morning following a retreat on Wall Street.

The Hang Seng Index edged down 0.29pc to 18,423.78, the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 0.23pc to three,103.71, whereas the Shenzhen Composite Index on China’s second alternate dipped 0.23pc to 1,730.14.

In Tokyo, the benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 1.15pc to 38,115.19 in early commerce, whereas the broader Topix index misplaced 1.55pc to 2,699.09.