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• Russia's Norilsk Nickel admits 'red river' responsibility

  12-09-2016 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel admits one of its industrial plants is responsible for turning an Arctic river blood-red.
  
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• Why Higher Rates Are Good For Stocks

  12-09-2016 23:14
  
  We headed into the weekend with a market that was spooked by a sharp run up in global yields.  On Friday, we looked at the three most important markets in the world at this very moment: U.S. yields, German yields and Japanese yields. On the latter two, both German and Japanese yields had been deeply in negative
  
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• No rush to raise interest rates, says Fed official

  12-09-2016 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There is no rush to raise US interest rates, a Federal Reserve board member says a week before the US central bank announces its latest decision.
  
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• Futures Are Down Following Friday's Big Sell-off

  12-09-2016 18:33
  
  Following Friday s comments by Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren suggesting an interest rate hike in the near term may be necessary to salvage the U S economic recovery ahead of the bell to start the week Atlanta Fed Chief Dennis Lockhart now says a rate hike possibly as early as next week
  
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• HS2 jitters

  12-09-2016 17:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Businesses and communities want certainty about where the second phase of the HS2 rail route will go, but politics rarely provides certainty.
  
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• The Case Against A Fed Rate Hike In September

  12-09-2016 16:53
  
  Economists appear unconvinced that the Federal Reserve is considering raising short term interest rates at its September FOMC meeting. A recent Wall Street Journal survey of economist found that about 13% of themexpecteda hike at the upcoming meeting. This is well below the closely watched CME Fed futures market
  
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• Frances O'Grady on working with PM over worker's rights

  12-09-2016 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Frances O'Grady on zero hours contracts, rest breaks and sick pay.
  
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• Hedging Against A Drop

  12-09-2016 15:24
  
  Like virtually all investors I have an interest in the stock market going up. I have retirement funds and long term investments and ultimately I need those investments to perform. It gives me no pleasure, therefore to have been right about this latest down move.As Iexplainedas recently as Thursday, the move was
  
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• Scunthorpe sale costs hit Tata Steel

  12-09-2016 14:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Costs related to the sale of its operations in Scunthorpe have pushed Tata Steel to a net loss of 31.8bn rupees (£358m) for the first quarter.
  
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• Is China Deliberately Trying To Derail The Russia/Saudi Oil Deal?

  12-09-2016 14:21
  
  China, the world’s largest oil consumer, has been increasing oil imports and feasting on the low crude oil prices. Could Russia and Saudi Arabia’s plan to stabilize crude oil prices cut into China’s oil hoarding plans? Chinese oil imports have increased to 32.85 million tons in August, the second highest figure
  
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• UK nuclear power station project 'in talks' for cash injection

  12-09-2016 14:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The developers behind Europe's biggest new nuclear power station are in talks with potential foreign investors for the £10bn project in Cumbria.
  
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• Man Utd first UK football club to earn £500m in a year

  12-09-2016 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester United has recorded record revenues of £515.3m for the 2016 financial year, the first UK football club to do so.
  
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• Fire drill knocks ING bank's data centre offline

  12-09-2016 13:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fire extinguisher test in a bank's data centre goes wrong in an "unprecedented" manner, causing its cash machines, online banking operations and website to go offline.
  
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• Bank of England's Minouche Shafik leaves to run the LSE

  12-09-2016 12:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Minouche Shafik, one of the Bank of England's deputy governors, is leaving to become the director of the London School of Economics.
  
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• Seaweed farmers in Indonesia sue in major oil spill case

  12-09-2016 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Indonesian seaweed farmers launch a class action lawsuit demanding compensation for the effects of Australia's worst oil spill.
  
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• In the weeds

  12-09-2016 01:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Indonesian seaweed farmers have launched a class action lawsuit demanding compensation for the effects of Australia's worst oil spill.
  
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• Tanzania levies VAT on tourism and banking sectors

  12-09-2016 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Safari operators and banks in Tanzania are being asked to stump-up value added tax.
  
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• The last laugh

  12-09-2016 01:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How cartoonist Mauricio de Sousa was able to get past initial rejection and go on to become Brazil's answer to Walt Disney.
  
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