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• British crew member dies in Round the World race

  01-04-2016 21:27
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - A British crew member in the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race has died after being swept overboard in strong winds, officials said on Friday.
  
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• March Non-Farm Payroll Data Matched Estimates

  01-04-2016 19:30
  
  The 'headline' March non farm payroll reading essentially matched estimates, with job gains of 215K vs. estimates of 213K and 245K in February (revised higher from the originally reported 242K read). The unemployment rate ticked up to 5% from
  
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• VIDEO: Cornwall's sunshine tariff trial

  01-04-2016 19:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Residents in a town in Cornwall are being offered ultra cheap energy... when the sun is out.
  
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• British man jailed after keeping wife as a slave in landmark case

  01-04-2016 18:28
  
  LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British man who treated his Pakistani wife as a slave was sentenced to two years on Friday following what is believed to be the first conviction in the UK for domestic servitude involving a husband and wife.
  
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• How to Trade Options

  01-04-2016 15:52
  
  Puts, calls, strike prices, premiums, derivatives, bear put spreads and bull call spreads — options investors have a colorful language to describe what they do.And what, exactly, is it that they do?In a nutshell, options trading involves buying a contract that says you are allowed — but not obligated — to buy or
  
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• Britain's new minimum wage feeds in to 'Brexit' debate

  01-04-2016 15:51
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - More than a million British workers were given a pay rise on Friday as a higher minimum wage came into force, an economic experiment that fed in to a tense political debate on whether the country should leave the European Union.
  
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• British judge says trial of Channel Tunnel refugee will go ahead

  01-04-2016 14:09
  
  CANTERBURY, England (Reuters) - A judge refused on Friday to halt the criminal damage trial of a refugee from Darfur who walked through the Channel Tunnel in one of the most dramatic attempts to reach Britain since Europe's migration crisis began.
  
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• FX: Dollar Droops Ahead of Payroll Numbers

  01-04-2016 13:51
  
  Market Drivers April 1, 2016 Dollar weakness persists UK PMI misses EURGBP at 15 month highs Nikkei -3.55% Dax -1.50% Oil $38/bbl Gold $1234/oz. Europe and Asia : CNY PMI Manufacturing 50.2 vs. 49.4 EUR PMI Manufacturing 51.6 vs. 51.4 GBP PMI Manufacturing 51 vs. 51.2 North America :USD NFPS 8:30 USD ISM
  
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• Standing Too Close To A Problem Can Make You Ignorant

  01-04-2016 13:12
  
  There is truth in the old adage that many cannot see the forest for the trees. I have seen financiers and engineers faced with a problem, pull out a calculator, and puke out analysis with solutions missing the big picture.In some ways - Bosch, Audi, Porsche and VW are faced with the results of this dilemma with
  
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• English clubs to get free stadium wi-fi

  01-04-2016 12:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England's Football League says free wi-fi for a set of official apps will be made available at Championship, League One and League Two stadiums.
  
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• VIDEO: The National Living Wage in 90 seconds

  01-04-2016 12:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new National Living Wage comes into effect today, but what is it, and what does it mean for workers and businesses?
  
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• Britain's 'in' and 'out' EU campaigns level - TNS poll

  01-04-2016 11:20
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The rival campaigns for Britain to stay in or leave the European Union are tied, an online poll by TNS showed on Friday, less than three months before the country's historic referendum.
  
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• Brexit risks taking multi-trillion euro trading from London

  01-04-2016 08:26
  
  FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - If Britons vote to leave the EU, London's financial centre faces losing one of its top money spinners - the trade in trillions of euros in derivatives - and the European Central Bank will be pushing hard for the business to move onto its patch.
  
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• Does 'pay by app' mean an end to shopping queues?

  01-04-2016 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How 'pay by app' could transform the way we buy stuff
  
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• No joke: It's national 'price hike' day

  01-04-2016 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than a million workers are celebrating a pay rise as a result of the National Living Wage, but 1 April sees a raft of price rises too.
  
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