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• Brexit: Civil service faces 'bumpy ride' says union leader

  28-12-2016 19:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More resources are needed to deal with leaving the EU, a civil servants union leader says.
  
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• Benchmarks Looks to Finish 2016 on Positive Note

  28-12-2016 18:57
  
  The final trading week of a year always brings a few of the same things a reflection on the past year as a whole peering ahead into what s to come in the new year and a look at holiday retail sales performance Here at the end of 2016 all three views look uncommonly positive Starting
  
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• Dentsu chief resigns after overworked employee commits suicide

  28-12-2016 18:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The head of Japan's Dentsu resigns following the suicide of an overworked employee.
  
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• Former Bundesbank president Hans Tietmeyer dies aged 85

  28-12-2016 18:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hans Tietmeyer, a key architect of European monetary union and former Bundesbank president, dies aged 85.
  
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• Year End Outlook: Will Investors Get Hustled by the Pros in 2017?

  28-12-2016 16:14
  
  It never pays to be an “afterthought.”That was the word Jackie Gleason used to characterize the proposed reprisal of ‘Minnesota Fats’ in The Color of Money, 1986’s sequel to The Hustler. Chances are Paul Newman himself, who had at least 36 script conferences with the screenwriter, didn’t take offense to Gleason’s
  
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• BP fills up with $1.3bn Australian petrol station deal

  28-12-2016 15:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BP will pay $1.3bn to buy more than 500 service stations from Woolworths, the Australian supermarket.
  
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• Bosses 'do not deserve bumper pay packets', study finds

  28-12-2016 14:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The link between what chief executives are paid and company performance is 'negligible', new research finds.
  
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• House price growth 'to slow in 2017'

  28-12-2016 14:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UK house prices will continue to rise next year but at a much slower rate, the Halifax says.
  
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• Short Forex And Economic Notes for Holiday Markets

  28-12-2016 13:55
  
  Economic data:Japan stands out with industrial production in Nov rising 1.5%, the most in five months.  It was a little less than expected, but the expectations for Dec (2%) and Jan (2.2%) are constructive.  This seems to be a function of two things: stronger exports and a cyclical function with inventories
  
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• Just how old is your train carriage?

  28-12-2016 12:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The average age of passenger trains in Britain is 21 years old, an investigation finds.
  
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• Robocop designer's real world robot

  28-12-2016 08:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A giant robot designed by scientists in South Korea has taken its first steps.
  
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• Google: Our job to help remove hate and harmful content

  28-12-2016 02:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google's Europe boss says the company has a role to play in removing hateful content from the internet
  
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• Work-life balance

  28-12-2016 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Today programme's guest editor, fund manager Helena Morrissey, with her take on what work-life balance means for men
  
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• FX: Tough Year Ahead For Sterling

  28-12-2016 00:52
  
  Daily FX Market Roundup 12.27.16It was a relatively quiet day in the foreign exchange market with the U.S. dollar trading higher against all of the major currencies except for the euro.   The strength of the dollar and the lack of big moves is not a surprise during this holiday week and in fact reinforced by
  
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• Where will the oil price go in 2017?

  28-12-2016 00:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Oil producers cartel Opec has agreed to make deep cuts to its oil output. Will this mean higher oil prices in 2017?
  
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