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Week ahead: Public finance and retail sales figures in focus
In the aftermath of the latest Budget, the public finance figures for February due out on Tuesday will likely centre investors and the media´s attention, alongside the latest consumer price and retail sales figures which are scheduled for release for that same day and on Thursday, respectively.
US close: S&P 500 erases year-to-date losses
Shares on the S&P 500 finished higher for a fifth week running on Friday, pushing the equity benchmark into the black for the year by 0. 3%.
Sunday newspaper round-up: Rolls-Royce, Whitbread, Britvic, LSE
Rolls-Royce has put forward detailed proposals to the government to fill some of the UK's power shortage with a fleet of small reactors built around the company's expertise in generating power for Royal Navy submarines. With the escalating costs and timing of the £18bn Hinkley Point nuclear plant in Somerset, Rolls-Royce believes a series of small modular reactors (SMRs) could form a medium-term solution to Britain’s looming energy crisis, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
Sunday share tips: Jimmy Choo, Genel Energy, Gulf Keystone, Ironveld
Jimmy Choo shares were rated as worth holding in the Sunday Times' Inside the City column. The upmarket shoemaker sashayed into the upper echelons of global brands and appeared likely to reap the rewards of its popularity among China's mushrooming middle classes as it floated in 2014. However the shares have been tripped up worries about the economic slowdown in the People's Republic and are back below their 140p flotation price.