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• HMRC hails success of tax avoidance clampdown on UK banks

  01-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  HMRC said the amount of money in tax avoidance schemes has fallen from £3.2bn in 2013 to £1bn
  
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• Economic sweet spot of 2016 before the reflation storm

  01-01-2016 19:10 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  China, Europe, and the US are picking up speed but the credit cycle is ageing, and treacherous waters lie just beyond the horizon
  
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• Business rates are putting off international companies from coming to the UK

  01-01-2016 18:43 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  CEO of shopping centre owner Intu is arguing for major reform
  
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• NatWest customers locked out again as bank suffers New Year's Day glitch

  01-01-2016 18:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Customers were left unable to buy groceries on New Year's Day as the RBS-managed bank ran into payment problems yet again
  
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• By the end of the year one of the UK's quoted supermarkets will no longer be listed

  01-01-2016 18:20 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Predictions for 2016: This is what our columnists are forecasting for the year ahead
  
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• Europe is looking up - some good news to start 2016

  01-01-2016 17:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  This could be the strongest year for growth across the European Union as a whole since 2007, and that's good news for the UK
  
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• Let’s move to the Nadder valley, Wiltshire

  01-01-2016 17:30
  
  If you’re stuck on the A303, take a detour to explore this hidden valley of thatched cottages, wide chalky downs and water meadowsWhat’s going for it? God, the A303. Can’t someone do something about it? Like the common cold, the Middle East and George Osborne, the A303 is just one of those problems that never goes away. On the plus side, one Friday afternoon, while queueing around Winterbourne Stoke, with just the prospect of roadworks past Wylye for comfort, a shortcut down th
  
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• Domino's launches 'ultimate hangover angel' that makes ordering pizza even easier

  01-01-2016 16:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The pizza company has launched a 'one-tap' order process for the Apple Watch, as it expects 2.3m slices of pizza to be delivered on New Years Day
  
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• New floods but same problems - the need to have adequate insurance and a faster response against increased catastrophes

  01-01-2016 15:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Britain needs a centralised crisis management system to handle natural disasters and mandatory levels of insurance coverage to help people and homeowners to recover
  
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• British man arrested at Amsterdam airport for false bomb threat

  01-01-2016 15:16
  
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch police said they arrested a 29-year-old British man at gunpoint at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on Friday after he shouted several times that he had a bomb.
  
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• London flats costing up to £1m outsell more affordable homes

  01-01-2016 14:12
  
  Thousands more high-priced flats sold in 2015 than those costing around £300,000, despite fears for first-time buyersLondon property developers last year sold more than twice as many two-bedroom apartments costing between £650,000 and £1m as cheaper homes priced at about £300,000, according to market data obtained by the Guardian.Figures gathered from more than 600 new housing projects in the capital reveal a spike in the number of homes sold to the richest househunters,
  
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• Ending of China's super-boom spells pain with no end seen yet

  01-01-2016 14:11
  
  SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A decade-old commodity boom came crashing to an end in 2015, hurting energy and mining companies and punishing prices as China's industrial rise and appetite for raw materials slowed. The outlook for 2016 is not much better.
  
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• Irish meal maker Cool Beans strikes deal with Waitrose

  01-01-2016 14:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The beany meal in a pot, Cool Beans, is now available in 135 Waitrose stores across the UK
  
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• India crowned world's fastest growing aviation market in 2015 as economy takes off

  01-01-2016 13:48 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Falling fuel prices and booming domestic demand are lifting the country's airline industry
  
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• UK Stops Sending Financial Aid To India - InSerbia News

  01-01-2016 12:32
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  The British government has stopped sending financial aid of millions of pounds to India. Before implementing its decision on the first day of 2016, the David Cameron administration issued a statement on Thursday, saying that although the move sparked ...
  

• Russia says Ukraine defaulted on $3 bln Eurobond

  01-01-2016 12:13
  
  MOSCOW, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Russia will file a lawsuit against Ukraine after Kiev failed to repay a $3 billion Eurobond and $75 million of interest by Dec. 31, the Russian finance ministry said late on Thursday.
  
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• Chinese manufacturing shrinks for fifth consecutive month

  01-01-2016 11:25 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The government will have to do more to support the economy in 2016
  
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• New year credit card battle: Halifax launches longest fee-free balance transfer card

  01-01-2016 10:12 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Halifax's new credit cards include a 38-month 0pc deal and a 23-month fee-free 0pc transfer - the longest available
  
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• Five steps to fixing the UK housing crisis in 2016

  01-01-2016 10:12
  
  Headlines about the utter madness of our housing market dominated 2015. It’s time to make some new year’s resolutionsPerhaps in years to come 2015 will be remembered as the year the housing crisis went mainstream. My fellow housing and economics journalists have been wailing like Cassandra for years now, but last year, it was rare to flip through a newspaper without seeing a headline addressing the utter madness of the UK’s housing market. Right to buy was extended, house price
  
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• How cities grow: the age of houses – mapped

  01-01-2016 10:00
  
  The different patterns of growth experienced in cities such as London, Coventry and Milton Keynes are neatly shown in a map by Oliver O’Brien for the Consumer Data Research Centre using new data on England and Wales from the Valuation Office Agency. You can explore for yourself on the CDRC website Continue reading...
  
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• Holiday spike in fake emails from banks

  01-01-2016 09:09 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Recent weeks have seen a spike in emails purporting to be from HSBC, NatWest and other banks - but they are sent by fraudsters, experts warn
  
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• Why second hand annuities are a disaster waiting to happen

  01-01-2016 09:03 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The second hand annuity market will be fraught with problems according to independent retirement expert Billy Burrows
  
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• Just how much of a Tory is George Osborne?

  01-01-2016 08:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  George Osborne is toying with the idea of removing a further £30bn in middle-class tax reliefs in his next Budget
  
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• Buy-to-let tax raid: 600 landlords donate £42,000 to fund judicial review

  01-01-2016 08:03 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  More than 600 people have pledged money to support the challenge
  
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• Financial detox: Top tricks to pay off debt for good in 2016

  01-01-2016 08:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CAREFREE spending over Christmas has given many of us the gruelling task of paying back those bills in the New Year, but a few simple tricks can get you out of the red faster.
  
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• Surreal estate: a houseboat in Chelsea – in pictures

  01-01-2016 08:00
  
  This three bedroom houseboat may appear ludicrously expensive, but it will get you into the heart of west London Continue reading...
  
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• Labour calls for renationalisation after 'staggering' rail fare rises

  01-01-2016 07:05
  
  Prices set to rise by average of 1.1%, meaning cost of some commuters’ tickets have increased by £2,000 since Tories took office
  Commuters will be paying an average of 25% more for rail season tickets since David Cameron took office, Labour has calculated.Fares are set to rise by an average of 1.1% on Saturday and the shadow transport secretary, Lilian Greenwood, said that would mean passengers being hit by a “truly staggering” rise of up to £2,000 in cash terms sin
  
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• UK faces 'economic storm' if politicians fail to act, warns BCC

  01-01-2016 07:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  John Longworth, the BCC director general, says that Government has wasted some big chances to help businesses in 2015
  
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• UPDATE 2-China Dec factory activity shrinks, more stimulus needed in 2016

  01-01-2016 04:38
  
  * Dec factory activity shrinks for 5th month but services pick up
  
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• China official Dec services PMI edges up to 54.4

  01-01-2016 02:14
  
  BEIJING, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Activity in China's services industry quickened in December, an official survey showed on Friday.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Investors pump $10 bln into U.S. stock funds in weekly period -Lipper

  01-01-2016 01:10
  
  (Adds data on mutual funds and ETFs) By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Investors pumped $10 billion into U.S.-based stock funds in the week that ended Dec. 30, Lipper data showed on Thursday, demonstrating a willingness to take on risk at the end of a year that has delivered slim gains to financial markets. Funds tracking foreign stocks took in money from both mutual fund and exchange-traded fund investors during the week - $9.3 billion in all, Lipper said - one wee
  
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• Cameron pledges to address causes of extremism in 2016

  01-01-2016 01:04
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron pledged on Friday to address the root causes of extremism in Britain this year as part of a wider plan of social reform to be built on the country's recovering economic foundations.
  
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• Osborne ‘behind axed bank culture review’

  01-01-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  GEORGE Osborne has been accused of forcing regulators to ditch a review into Britain’s banking culture under pressure from the industry’s biggest names.
  
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• City news: FTSE, Sports Direct and CBI

  01-01-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BROKERS expect the FTSE100 to be weighed down by low commodity prices this year, as well as slowing growth in emerging markets.
  
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• Investors pump $10 bln into U.S. stock funds during weekly period -Lipper

  01-01-2016 00:21
  
  NEW YORK, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Investors pumped $10 billion into U.S.-based stock funds in the week that ended Dec. 30, Lipper data showed on Thursday, showing willingness to take on risk at the end of a year that has delivered slim gains to financial markets.
  
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