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Economists and other experts have long repeated the conventional wisdom that the stock market isn’t the economy, meaning that temporary pullbacks on Wall Street don’t always ripple as far as the average American’s pocketbook.

A spokesperson for Sir Tony said: "As far as he can remember, Mr Blair met with him for less than 30 minutes in Downing Street in 2002, and discussed US and UK politics. He never met or engaged with him subsequently."

“The market had expected a confident story of further margin development and was instead served a thin gruel as far as 2030 guidance was concerned.”

"I don't know much, but as far as I know, when someone raises their hands, it means they haven't stolen anything, they haven't vandalised anything," says Rabe.

At Oc Eo, an important trading port near Co Loa, Roman coins dating from the reign of Marcus Aurelius have been discovered, suggesting that European merchants may have traveled as far as Southeast Asia in search of rare luxuries such as Chinese silk.