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• A day using Chinese goods in the US

  28-01-2016 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  From bacon to Grindr - taking over the US market
  
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• Amazon shares slide on sales miss

  28-01-2016 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Amazon missed analysts' estimates for the fourth quarter despite a 21.8% rise in sales, sending its shares tumbling.
  
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• Australia's drive for coal seam gas raises protests

  28-01-2016 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia's controversial drive for coal seam gas
  
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• Barclays faces £700m legal action

  28-01-2016 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Barclays confirms it is being sued for more than £700m by deal-maker Amanda Staveley in connection with its emergency fundraising in 2008.
  
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• Why The Fed Is Being Ambiguous On Purpose

  28-01-2016 20:37
  
  Marshall Gittler, Head of Investment research,  FXPRIMUS.comThe Fed’s January statement has replaced “Forward Guidance” with Delphic commentary that investors can interpret in line with their own biases. Some market participants believed that the Committee was still hawkish, because they did not rule out another
  
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• Fed Adopts Wait and Watch Approach

  28-01-2016 19:27
  
  A flood of Q4 earnings reports and more follow through to Wednesday's Fed announcement provide the backdrop for today's session, with the major indexes on track for a positive open despite weakness in Europe. The Fed announcement shouldn't have
  
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• Airbus signs $25bn Iranian plane deal

  28-01-2016 19:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iran has signed a deal to buy 118 Airbus planes worth $25bn in one of the biggest deals signed since Western sanctions were lifted against Tehran.
  
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• Google tax row: What's behind the deal?

  28-01-2016 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How does the UK compare with Europe?
  
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• Sale of Lloyds shares to public delayed

  28-01-2016 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK Chancellor George Osborne postpones the sale of the government's final stake in Lloyds Banking Group, blaming global market turmoil.
  
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• Barbie now in 'curvy, tall and petite'

  28-01-2016 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Barbie, the iconic plastic toy doll model, is getting three new body types including "tall, curvy and petite", US company Mattel reveals.
  
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• Libor brokers 'were scapegoats'

  28-01-2016 17:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Six former City brokers who have been cleared of helping to rig the Libor rate - a key lending rate used between banks - say they were made scapegoats.
  
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• Ford reports record annual profit

  28-01-2016 17:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US car giant Ford reports record profits for 2015 and a return to profits in Europe for the first time in four years.
  
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• PM Cameron welcomes proposals to curb EU migration - spokesman

  28-01-2016 17:22
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron welcomes discussion of alternative proposals to his plan to curb welfare payments to European Union migrants but his original proposal remains on the table, his spokesman said on Thursday.
  
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• Lawyer sees possible parallels in deaths of two Russians in UK exile

  28-01-2016 17:06
  
  WOKING, England (Reuters) - A week after a British inquiry ruled that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably approved the murder of an ex-KGB agent in London, a court heard on Thursday that the sudden death of a Russian mafia whistleblower had "potential parallels".
  
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• 3 Dow Jones Stocks to Buy While They're Cheap

  28-01-2016 16:44
  
  By Aaron Levitt, InvestorPlace Contributor The New Year isn’t shaping up to be a good one for investors. So far, U.S. stocks have been on a one-way train ride downwards. And nowhere is that drop more painfully felt than in the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average.The widely touted index of the “Bedrock of
  
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• Whisky maker Diageo toasts Britain's EU membership

  28-01-2016 16:40
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Diageo, the world's largest maker of Scotch whisky, supports Britain staying in the European Union but its chief executive said he sees no dramatic immediate effect on its business from a possible "Brexit".
  
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• Europe 'considers' Google tax complaint

  28-01-2016 16:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Competition Commission confirms it is considering how to respond to a letter of complaint from the SNP about Google's £130m tax deal with the UK.
  
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• Will you like Facebook's new Reactions?

  28-01-2016 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook is about to offer all its users alternatives to "likes" - it could prove a boon to marketers.
  
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• UK economy grows 0.5% in fourth quarter

  28-01-2016 14:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK economy grew by 0.5% in the three months to the end of December, official figures show, taking the annual rate of growth for 2015 to 2.2%.
  
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• EU acts on 'aggressive tax practices'

  28-01-2016 13:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The European Commission has made a series of pledges designed to tackle "aggressive tax practices" by multi-national companies.
  
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• Britain says will take U.N. Yemen report 'extremely seriously'

  28-01-2016 13:13
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it would take "extremely seriously" the findings of a United Nations report which says British military ally Saudi Arabia could have committed crimes against humanity in Yemen.
  
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• Dollar-Bloc Currencies Advance, Sterling Too

  28-01-2016 12:45
  
  There is a mixed tone in the global capital markets today.   Asian shares were mixed with declines in the Nikkei (-.07%) and Shanghai (-2.9%) being offset by modest gains elsewhere.  European bourses are also mixed and the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 is off slightly.  European bonds benchmark bond yields are lower though US
  
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• Regulators to investigate HBOS managers

  28-01-2016 12:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Regulators will start investigations into senior managers at HBOS which all but collapsed during the financial crisis.
  
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• 'Sick outs' staged by teachers banned from striking

  28-01-2016 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The teaching staff who are banned from striking
  
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• Whatever happened to the 'march of the makers'?

  28-01-2016 11:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Whatever happened to rebalancing the UK economy?
  
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• Scotland, Britain agree funding lifeline to oil port Aberdeen

  28-01-2016 11:14
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The British and Scottish governments announced a 250 million pound deal on Thursday to support the city of Aberdeen, hit hard by job losses in an oil sector ravaged by steep declines in the price of crude.
  
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• SSE cuts household gas prices as customer numbers drop

  28-01-2016 10:06
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - SSE, one of Britain's big six power companies, will cut its domestic gas prices by an average of 5.3 percent from March 29, the company said on Thursday as it announced it had lost 300,000 customers in nine months.
  
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• Cameron to meet EU's Tusk on Sunday as package takes shape

  28-01-2016 09:49
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron will meet European Council President Donald Tusk in London on Sunday, an EU spokesman said, as officials prepare to reveal details of reform negotiations next week.
  
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• EU competition boss says could look at UK's Google tax deal

  28-01-2016 09:28
  
  LONDON - The European Union could investigate a back tax deal agreed by Internet group Google and Britain, its competition boss said on Thursday.
  
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• Five out of six brokers cleared in UK's second Libor trial

  28-01-2016 09:01
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Five former brokers were acquitted on Wednesday of conspiring with convicted trader Tom Hayes to manipulate crucial benchmark interest rates as London's second Libor trial dealt a blow to the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO).
  
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• VIDEO: Piketty warns of India inequality

  28-01-2016 08:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Best-selling author and economist Thomas Piketty says India must address inequality if its economy is to continue to grow.
  
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• Photos from the Bank of England's vaults

  28-01-2016 03:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Photos from the Bank of England's vaults
  
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• VIDEO: Australian coal seam gas protest

  28-01-2016 03:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Activists want to stop coal seam gas exploration in New South Wales to prevent what they say would be an environmental catastrophe.
  
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• Britain's unions ready to join fight to stay in European Union, top official says

  28-01-2016 02:40
  
  LONDON - Britain's trade unions are close to joining the push to keep the country in the European Union, bringing grass-roots muscle to a fight that has so far been dominated by big business and bankers, the head of the country's largest union group said.
  
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• The rise of South Korean skin products

  28-01-2016 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How South Korea's skincare secrets are spreading
  
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