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• The town where 94% voted for Lula — and some now waver

  03-10-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Despite his hallowed status, some voters are growing disaffected with Brazil’s president in Guaribas, the cradle of his flagship Bolsa Família welfare programme
  
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• China launches anti-dumping probe into European chemical exports

  03-10-2026 12:16 via ft.com
  Latest tit-for-tat move follows three similar investigations launched by the EU last week
  
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• What’s driving the global bond sell-off?

  03-10-2026 11:30 via ft.com
  Looking at the most cited factors reveals a mixed picture
  
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• Catch the arms-spending wave with Kongsberg

  03-10-2026 11:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  Norwegian arms manufacturer Kongsberg Gruppen (Oslo: KOG) is likely to benefit from a big increase in defence spending. The Nato summit in Ankara in July 2026 reported that European allies and Canada had invested more than $139 billion in core defence requirements over the previous year, together with $50 billion of new procurements and a commitment to expand manufacturing capacity. In addition, the allies pledged $70 billion of military equipment, training and support to Ukraine for 2026, with
  
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• Britain’s productivity problem isn't as bad as we thought

  03-10-2026 10:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  The Office for National Statistics has changed how it measures productivity – economic output per hour worked – and it turns out we’ve been doing rather better than we realised. In particular, the government’s official statisticians now reckon the rate of growth in the decade following the global financial crisis, from 2009-2019, was 1.3% each year, on average, rather than the 0.7% they had previously thought.Alas, this doesn’t mean the UK economic output was any hi
  
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• 8 of the best houses for sale with stables

  03-10-2026 09:30 via moneyweek.com
  
  Pennington House, Lymington, HampshireKnight FrankKnight FrankKnight FrankA Grade II-listed house dating from 1735 set in formal gardens and parkland. There is a large walled kitchen garden and a stable courtyard. 8 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2 receptions, library, wine cellar, office, coach house, 2 cottages, 2 lakes, woodland, 42.4 acres.Price: £8.25m Knight Frank 01962-834010Alderton Hall, Montford Bridge, Shrewsbury, ShropshireSavillsSavillsSavillsA Grade II-listed country house with forma
  
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• ‘Government bonds are a buy’

  03-10-2026 09:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  The relentless rise in government bond yields – the cost of countries’ borrowing and the pressure that puts on their finances – has become headline news. A crisis in which governments will be forced to slash public spending to reduce their deficits and stop the relentless rise in ratios of government debt to GDP is widely predicted. But it is rare for crises to be widely predicted, and, if they are, they never unfold as expected. In the popular narrative, “the bond vigila
  
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• Trouble in the House of Liechtenstein – who is to blame?

  03-10-2026 08:00 via moneyweek.com
  
  The Principality of Liechtenstein is currently mired in a dispute that is “consuming Europe’s wealthiest monarchy” – with rebel royals threatening to sue the prince regent, Prince Alois, says the Financial Times. At issue are his progressive plans to reform their “dynastic status – and the allowances that come with it”. Extended family members claim the 58-year-old prince has used long overdue reforms – including opening up the succession to women
  
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• China, America and the new Great Game

  03-10-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Which power will prevail? As in the 19th-century struggle between the UK and Russia, the answer may depend on forces beyond either’s control
  
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