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Sunday share tips: PureTech, Drax
In her ‘Inside the City’ column for the Sunday Times, Sabah Meddings set her attention on PureTech, and its novel solution to the alarming rate at which Ritalin has been prescribed to children with attention deficit disorder - a prescription video game.
S&P downgrades Turkey's long-term debt from 'BB+' to 'B-'
Standard&Poor's downgraded the rating on Turkey's long-term sovereign debt on Friday on the back of the "extreme" volatility in the value of its currency over the past two weeks, which was expected to result in an economic recession in 2019 even as it leads to a "considerable increase" in funding risks for the country's lenders.
US close: Wall Street buoyed by further reports of China-US trade talks
US stocks finished higher on Friday as investors mulled over the latest apparently positive developments in the ongoing trade spat between the US and China, threats of more sanctions on Turkey and the news of an eleven-month low reading on the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index.
Sunday newspaper round-up: Boris Johnson, Brexit, housebuilders, Tesla, Standard Chartered
Boris Johnson is at the centre of a new row over racism after an investigation into online abuse revealed his official Facebook page hosts hundreds of Islamophobic messages. Under entries that publicise Johnson’s articles and speeches, the MP’s followers left comments including calls to ban Islam and deport Muslims, as well as vile attacks on the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. - The Sunday Times.