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• Under scrutiny

  29-07-2016 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The media more often focuses on what women wear and their family status, but does that hurt the public's perception of their leadership?
  
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• Weekend tax credit and tax payment deadlines alert

  29-07-2016 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thousands of people face a deadline of the end of Sunday to renew tax credits and pay tax owed, or face losing payments or being hit with penalties.
  
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• Hinkley Point delay 'frustrates' Chinese investors

  29-07-2016 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government's surprise announcement to delay a final decision on Hinkley Point has left the Chinese company investing in it 'bemused' and "frustrated" according to a source.
  
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• Stressed out

  29-07-2016 22:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The results of European bank "stress tests" have been announced, with the aim of establishing how well the banks could cope with a new financial shock.
  
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• A Brutal Week for Dollar, Is 100 Next for USD/JPY?

  29-07-2016 22:31
  
  Daily FX Market Roundup 07.29.16By Kathy Lien, Managing Director of FX Strategy for BK Asset Management This past week was a brutal one for the U.S. dollar.The greenback traded lower against all of the major currencies with particularly stinging losses experienced against the Japanese Yen and New Zealand dollars.
  
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• BOJ Doubling Down On Stocks Is Big For All Stock Markets

  29-07-2016 19:56
  The Bank of Japan acted last night, but it wasn't the bazooka-type response markets were hoping for.  But it may be the response stock investors were hoping for.  The yen denominated Nikkei actually finished UP on the day.  And German and U.S. stocks have fared well too.As we've said, in this environment, what's
  
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• Hinkley Point

  29-07-2016 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Has the amount that bill payers would have to pay for the new Hinkley Point C risen sharply?
  
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• Lackluster Second Quarter GDP Results

  29-07-2016 18:33
  Second quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) results were released before Friday's market open, and the results were, by any measure, quite lackluster 1.2% growth was recorded in the first read of Q2 GDP. This is only half of what
  
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• SABMiller recommends revised AB InBev takeover offer

  29-07-2016 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brewing giant SABMiller recommends that shareholders should accept the revised takeover offer from rival AB InBev.
  
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• FTSE 100 rebounds to close day ahead

  29-07-2016 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After spending much of the day behind, the London market scrapes into positive territory to close just three points ahead.
  
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• BGC Partners: 7% Yield Plus Severe Undervaluation Equal 57% Upside

  29-07-2016 18:21
  By Nat Stewart Before we get started on BGCP ( BGCP ), I wanted to provide an update on our view of RMR Group Inc., a stock I wrote about in an article published at Seeking Alpha on January
  
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• Will BoJ Start Global Disarmament Of Central Banks?

  29-07-2016 17:42
  Marshall Gittler, Head of Investment research,  FXPRIMUS.comThe Bank of Japan (BoJ) Friday passed up the chance to increase its monetary stimulus, as many market observers had expected, and instead just tinkered around the edges with some token adjustments. Not only that, but it also called for a review of the
  
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• US GDP growth misses forecasts despite spending surge

  29-07-2016 17:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US economy grew at an annual pace of 1.2% in the second quarter, far below expectations of 2.6%, but consumer spending rose at its fastest pace since 2014
  
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• Good News Hidden In Bad GDP Read

  29-07-2016 16:24
  This morning’sdisappointing GDP readcontained some mixed signals, and in some ways could be seen as a positive, at least for certain sectors. It was weakness in business investment and spending that resulted in the low growth number (1.2 percent versus expectations of 2.6 percent), but that was in part offset by
  
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• Is the Economy Really Growing at 1.2%

  29-07-2016 16:20
  Headline second quarter advance GDP estimate is 1.2 %,upfrom last quarter's downward revised 0.8 %. Yet the year-over-year GDP growthdeclinedfrom 1.6 % to 1.2 %.The advance estimate of second quarter 2016 Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a positive 1.2 %. This is a moderate improvement from the
  
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• Greenspan 'Nervous' Bond Prices Too High As Treasurys Sell Off

  29-07-2016 16:12
  (Bloomberg) — Alan Greenspan is worried bond prices have risen too high. “We get very nervous when the stock price index goes to high P/E, we ought to be somewhat nervous when the bond rate does the same,” the former Fed chairman said in an interview Thursday with Bloomberg Television. Some bond market metrics
  
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• Driving a Crossrail train

  29-07-2016 16:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Transport correspondent Richard Westcott gets to drive one of London's new Crossrail trains.
  
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• Anglo Irish Bank: Former executives jailed over fraud

  29-07-2016 15:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three former bank executives in the Republic of Ireland are jailed for their part in a 7.2bn euro (£6bn) conspiracy.
  
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• Kenya's flourishing camel milk industry

  29-07-2016 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Despite the country's drought, some Kenyans are turning camel milk into a viable commercial business.
  
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• Kuroda Hesitates, Yen Advances; Focus Turns to Europe and North America

  29-07-2016 13:52
  Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda appears to be the central banker that the markets have the most difficulty in reading.   The activist Governor provide the barest of tweaks to what is by nearly any reckoning among the most aggressive monetary policies by a high income economy.  Moreover, much of the important data
  
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• BoJ Fails To Deliver; USD/JPY Takes A Hit

  29-07-2016 13:10
  Market Drivers July 29, 2016BOJ program fails to impress Cable drops on EOM EURGBP demand Nikkei -0.69 Dax 0.05% Oil $42/bbl Gold $1349/oz. Europe and Asia : AUD PPI 0.1% vs. -0.2% EUR GE Retail Sales -0.1% vs. 0.0% GBP UK Mortgage Approvals 64.8K vs. 65.4K EUR EZ CPI 0.2% vs. 0.3% North America :USD GDP
  
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• Eurozone GDP growth halves as French economy stalls

  29-07-2016 12:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Eurozone GDP growth slowed to 0.3% in the second quarter of the year as the bloc's second-largest economy, France, stagnated.
  
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• Amazon boss Bezos becomes world's third richest

  29-07-2016 12:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Strong earnings from Amazon and a boost to the company's stock make its founder, Jeff Bezos, the world's third richest person, according to Forbes.
  
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• Foxtons estate agency profits tumble amid Brexit vote

  29-07-2016 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  High-profile London estate agency Foxtons has announced a 42% fall in profits, blaming uncertainty around the EU referendum for the fall.
  
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• Living with Sierra Leone mine closures

  29-07-2016 11:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  After two of the country's largest mines were forced to close, the people of Sierra Leone have struggled to survive.
  
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• ‘The case hasn’t changed’ for Hinkley

  29-07-2016 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Malcolm Grimston gives his analysis of the long term case for Hinkley Point
  
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• Barclays adds £400m to PPI payments as profits fall

  29-07-2016 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Barclays sets aside an additional £400m to compensate customers mis-sold PPI as profits during the first half of the year fall 21%.
  
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• How to build a train - in 30 secs

  29-07-2016 10:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Timelapse footage shows how the new trains for London's Crossrail project are built by Bombardier.
  
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• BA owner IAG's profits hit by weak pound

  29-07-2016 10:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Airline group IAG, the owner of British Airways and Iberia, says currency movements cost it €148m in the latest quarter of trading, mainly due to the weak pound.
  
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• Yen jumps against dollar as Japan keeps rates on hold

  29-07-2016 10:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Japanese yen jumped more than 2% against the US dollar after the Bank of Japan keeps rates on hold.
  
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• Google parent Alphabet sees strong profits rise

  29-07-2016 03:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Quarterly revenue at Google's parent company Alphabet rises 21.3% after strong mobile advertising sales.
  
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• Indonesia human rights lawyer speaks up

  29-07-2016 02:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Indonesian Todung Mulya Lubis explains how he became a human rights lawyer.
  
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• On track to win

  29-07-2016 01:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Technology has moved on fast since the 2012 London Olympics, particularly in data analytics. But is it giving some countries an unfair advantage?
  
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• Brexit knocks manufacturers' confidence - report

  29-07-2016 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Confidence among manufacturers has slumped since the UK's vote to leave the European Union, a report indicates.
  
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