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One senior depend on the existing December 31, 2018-January 27, 2019 DATABANK INSIDE THE CITY SABAH MEDDINGS THE WEEK IN THE MARKETS THE ECONOMY Consumer prices index current rate prev. month FTSE 100 FTSE 100 DOLLAR 2.1% 2.3% Penguin into a joint venture the US — its biggest market — USD > GBP Pearson with Random House in 2012, had fallen 5%. Profit guidance 8,000 CPI including housing current rate prev. month Pearson sold a 22% stake in it for the year would have been $1.29 2.0% 2.2% to Bertelsmann for £761m in cut had it not made extra 7,600 V 0.01 Retail prices index current rate prev. month has hard 2017, keeping 25%. savings, the company said. 12-month high: $1.44 low: $1.24 Pearson has sought to The broker Liberum said 7,200 2.7% 3.2% EURO reposition itself as a digital there was “only so much cost- 7,071.18 Average weekly earnings on prev. month on last year lessons EUR > GBP leader in educational cutting you can do to mask 50.96 H:7,903.5 6,800 materials. The share price the underlying problems 0.73% L:6,536.5 £527 V0.2% U3.3% Unemployment current rate prev. month to learn has bounced back, closing facing the business”. The 6,400 €1.14 on Friday at 926.4p, to value shares fell 6% on the update. FTSE 250 W 0.00 2018 12-month high: €1.16 1.37m 4.0% 4.1% When Pearson sold the the company at £7.2bn. Pearson must now prove it low: €1.10 Source: Thomson Reuters Manufacturing output on the year on last month Financial Times to Nikkei Supporters say Pearson has can maintain printed-book YEN in 2015, it was making a cut its net debt from £2bn in revenues while shepherding RISERS FALLERS YEN > USD V0.4% V0.3% statement as well as 2013 to about £200m by the customers into the digital era.