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• Betting On A Down Year For Stocks Is A Bad Bet

  18-08-2016 21:53
  
  We're eight months into the year.  When we opened 2016, the broader mood about markets was still gunshy of another (crisis) shoe to drop.Wall Street was, on average, almost reluctantly, forecasting about an average year for stocks (about 8%).  We're about there already.  The hedge fund community, by nature
  
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• Time For A Temporary Turnaround In GBP?

  18-08-2016 19:36
  
  Marshall Gittler, Head of Investment research,  FXPRIMUS.comThe pound has indeed suffered greatly recently. I’m reminded of a scene fromSpitting Images , a political puppet show that used to appear on British TV. During one of the perennial sterling crises, it showed an anthropomorphic pound sign standing on
  
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• William Hill bidders abandon three-way deal plan

  18-08-2016 18:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  888 Holdings and Rank withdraw a proposed tie-up with William Hill which would have created the UK's largest gambling group.
  
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• Walmart Up, Jobless Claims Down

  18-08-2016 18:47
  
  Market futures are down slightly again this morning, though they started this way Wednesday morning, only to turn around on firmer language from Fed minutes released from the FOMC's most recent meeting. Also, Q2 earnings season winds down with
  
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• Asda has worst quarterly sales drop blaming food deflation

  18-08-2016 18:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Asda reports a drop in sales of 7.5% in the past three months, its worst quarterly performance on record.
  
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• Uber to deploy self-driving cars in Pittsburgh

  18-08-2016 16:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ride-sharing firm Uber will begin allowing users to hail a self-driving car in a US city later this month, it confirms.
  
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• Warm weather lifts retail sales in July

  18-08-2016 16:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Warmer weather helped boost retail sales in July, according to official data, and a weaker pound may also have played a part.
  
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• Toy firm may face in-depth competition probe

  18-08-2016 15:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Toddler toy firm VTech could face an in-depth competition probe after merging with close competitor Leapfrog, UK regulators say.
  
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• Brexit backer: Living in Monaco a false economy

  18-08-2016 12:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Banker Peter Cruddas said he will pay £100m in taxes this year and says living in Monaco was a false economy - costing more than it saved.
  
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• Meet the robots in Amazon's UK warehouses

  18-08-2016 07:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  These robots are being rolled out to Amazon's warehouses across the UK.
  
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• Time for a comeback

  18-08-2016 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A look at the small but growing number of luxury British watchmakers who aim to put the UK back at the forefront of the global timepiece industry.
  
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• Farming support

  18-08-2016 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The weaker pound since the UK’s Brexit vote means euro-denominated EU farming subsidies could worth 15% more to British farmers next year. But the boost may be a short-term one.
  
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• Market Futures Point To A Mixed Open

  18-08-2016 00:03
  
  Market futures point to a mixed open ahead of the bell this morning, with the Nasdaq in slightly positive territory, the Dow down in the low double digits and the S&P 500 basically unched. Most of the Dow laggards
  
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