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• China's giant threat to global financial stability

  09-01-2016 21:49 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  It would only take three months of burning through reserves before China's once mighty arsenal looks less than adequate for such a large economy
  
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• Ghana police arrest suspect in murder of British actress and two sons

  09-01-2016 21:36
  
  ACCRA (Reuters) - Police in Ghana said on Saturday they had tracked down and arrested the partner of a British actress whose body was found in the garden of her London home this week along with those of their two young sons.
  
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• Apple's Android switching plan

  09-01-2016 21:33 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Apple thought to have agreed to develop a simple tool to help consumers shift data such as contacts, music and photos if they move to Android
  
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• American rivals circle electronics maker

  09-01-2016 21:31 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Connecticut-based electronics giant Amphenol has been "running the rule" over the FTSE 250 iPhone parts maker Laird
  
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• Short-seller has Sainsbury in sights after bid failure

  09-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  WorldQuant started shorting Sainsbury's shares on the day its rejected bid for Home Retail was revealed
  
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• Saudis told to prop up currency amid global devaluation war fears

  09-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Investors are betting the kingdom's dollar peg will soon collapse, but oil giant should deploy the full force of firepower to protect riyal, say World Bank
  
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• ASSOS pedals into St James's Market

  09-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Upmarket cycling brand and Smeg will be the first retail tenants in the £450m redevelopment site
  
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• Asda warns of more retail turmoil

  09-01-2016 21:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Asda is to pump in another £500m into slashing prices as chief executive Andy Clarke warns of another tough year for the retail sector
  
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• HMRC software firm raises £100m to expand in US

  09-01-2016 20:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  London-based EDM Group, which works with a number of organisations including the Revenue, plans to boost its resources at home and abroad
  
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• F-Pace buyers face nine-month wait to get behind the wheel

  09-01-2016 20:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The importance of Jaguar's new F-Pace crossover car is highlighted by long wait times for deliveries
  
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• DLA Piper's profits per partner rise despite currency shifts denting revenues

  09-01-2016 20:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Law firm's international business has felt the pain of foreign exchange movements
  
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• Cut tax burden to make British industry great again, says billionaire Ineos boss

  09-01-2016 20:30 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Jim Ratcliffe calls for a single-digit tax rate on manufacturers to prevent slow and catastrophic decline
  
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• Revealed: Gangs netting millions from house purchase email scam

  09-01-2016 20:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Two cases a week, worth on average £112,000 each, are being reported to fraud police of criminals posing as buyers, sellers or lawyers to intercept funds
  
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• Profits double for Wigan owner's gym empire

  09-01-2016 20:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Dave Whelan's gym and retail business saw pre-tax profits rise to £8.2m last year
  
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• Fake tan boss Michelle Feeney turns to private equity firm Palatine

  09-01-2016 20:00 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Palatine, which owns luxury restaurants and wine bars in the North of England, adds former St Tropez and PZ Cussons beauty chief to its advisory board
  
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• Michelin-starred Galvin brothers eye pub expansion

  09-01-2016 18:23 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Acclaimed chefs Chris and Jeff Galvin plan to shake-up the pub industry
  
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• UK Banks: British Financial Regulator May Allow Commission Payments Again - International Business Times

  09-01-2016 17:52
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  UK Banks: British Financial Regulator May Allow Commission Payments Again
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  RTXY4OJ The logo of the Financial Conduct Authority is seen at the agency's headquarters in the Canary Wharf business district of London, April 1, 2013. Photo: Reuters. About three years after the United Kingdom's financial regulatory body banned ...en meer »
  

• Season's bleatings as the traditional kings of Christmas are humbled

  09-01-2016 17:28 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Traditional high street players are a long way off from working out how to deal with seismic changes
  
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• Dose of realism by Osborne, but risks lie closer to home

  09-01-2016 17:04 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  It is the West, not the East, that are currently the major potential source of systemic financial instability
  
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• Place in the sun? Where to invest in undervalued property in 2016

  09-01-2016 15:45 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  This data reveals where property is cheap relative to long-term, local trends
  
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• Holograms are coming to a high street near you

  09-01-2016 15:35 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Can you tell what's real and what's not?
  
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• Christmas mourning for retail as tills fall silent

  09-01-2016 15:33 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  The sudden exit of M&S chief Marc Bolland on the back of poor clothing sales was not the high street's only seasonal tale of woe
  
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• Is it time for the car industry to ease off the gas?

  09-01-2016 15:31 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  New car registrations have hit a record high but the industry may be head for trouble down the road
  
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• Some milk and how much for the whole store? Villagers square up to rural shop decline

  09-01-2016 14:57 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Communities across Britain are banding together to save their local shops and pubs
  
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• Pay-as-you-go: 'Vodafone cut us off with no refund for lack of use'

  09-01-2016 11:58 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  A husband with a chronic heart condition finds that his pay-as-you-go mobile is removed from the network and number given to another customer
  
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• New battle on 5pc deposit mortgage rates - with and without Help to Buy

  09-01-2016 11:05 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  There are dozens of 95pc mortgages out there for buyers with a low deposit, here are the cheapest available
  
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• 'We're not going soft on the banks' says City regulator

  09-01-2016 09:46 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Tracey McDermott, interim chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority, defends her record in regulating banking sector after critics say Treasury has put pressure on her to be more "light touch"
  
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• If you need to know one thing to boost your wealth in 2016, it's this

  09-01-2016 09:23 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  George Osborne's often made things difficult for higher-rate taxpayers. But the looming Spring Budget could reveal his most brutal attack yet
  
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• Tax error complicates financial help for some with Obamacare - Yahoo Finance UK

  09-01-2016 09:06
  Tax error complicates financial help for some with Obamacare
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  In this Aug. 21, 2014 file photo, health care tax forms 8962 is seen in Washington. The Obama administration … WASHINGTON (AP) -- About 1.4 million households that got financial help for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law failed to ...en meer »
  

• Aviator completes epic flight in vintage biplane with Sydney Harbour flyover

  09-01-2016 09:03
  
  SYDNEY, Reuters () - British aviator Tracey Curtis-Taylor flew her open-cockpit biplane across Sydney Harbour and landed at the city's international airport on Saturday, completing a three-month journey from England to retrace a pioneering feat of early aviation.
  
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• Exposed, disgraced and fined - but npower's contempt for customers STILL goes on

  09-01-2016 08:04 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Despite promises of huge improvements, npower is continuing to treat its customers poorly
  
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• Passengers left fuming as train firms increasingly fail to arrive on time

  09-01-2016 08:02
  
  Fares have gone up again, but the latest punctuality figures expose serious flaws in our rail networkOnly four out of 10 trains are running on time on many of Britain’s busiest routes, with CrossCountry and TransPennine trains the least likely to arrive on schedule, according to punctuality figures from Network Rail.The data, which covers mid-November to mid-December 2015, shows that punctuality has fallen significantly since the same period in 2014. On the toughest definition of timelines
  
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• Women’s state pension age rise: an unfair burden or a necessary reform?

  09-01-2016 08:01
  
  Anger is growing at the current rules over the age women can claim their state pensions – MPs Mhairi Black and Shailesh Vara argue for and against changeIf there are any female Guardian Money readers born on 5 March 1953, then congratulations (or commiserations): you officially reached state pension age on Wednesday 6 January, and can start claiming your basic state pension of up to £115.95 a week.But if you are a woman born exactly one year later, on 5 March 1954, then you won&rsquo
  
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• Will we get away with painting over a damp problem when selling our house?

  09-01-2016 08:01
  
  The downstairs loo has a minor issue, and my wife wants to do a patch up job and hope the surveyor doesn’t noticeEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question:Continue reading...
  
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• It’s a taxing time of year … here’s how to file your return

  09-01-2016 08:01
  
  Completing a self-assessment tax return remains daunting for many of the 10 million people required to do so, but you can minimise the pain – and possibly the bill itselfNearly four million of the 10.2 million people in Britain required to fill in tax returns have not yet sent them in – and they now have less than four weeks left in which to do so. Last year 890,000 taxpayers missed the 31 January deadline and paid a £100 fine, with extra penalties for severely late returns. Ye
  
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• Yet another reason to not trust your home insurer

  09-01-2016 08:00
  
  The experience of one older, loyal customer at the hands of RIAS reveals yet again the rapacious behaviour of companies in ramping up pricesIt was understandable why now-retired Leeds householder David Burton, in his late 60s, was attracted to home insurer RIAS. It is the chief rival to Saga, describing itself as a “specialist in providing great value insurance for the over-50s”. RIAS’s marketing will appeal to many older people. It is “generally safer and more experience
  
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• Frozen out by Virgin Active as we reach meltdown over gym membership

  09-01-2016 08:00
  
  I tried to suspend it but it was reactivated and £204 taken from my accountI’m having a lot of trouble with Virgin Active with a gym membership subscription (for the use of its Oxford club) that I thought I’d cancelled last January. But it was reactivated in September, taking £204 from my account, and I have just stopped them (by cancelling my bank direct debit) from taking a further £102 in December. Other money that was supposed to have been refunded has not been.
  
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• City News: Shell, Mountain Warehouse, Jaguar and Theo Paphitis

  09-01-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  SHELL’S £35billion takeover bid for FTSE 100 rival BG Group has been backed by a key adviser.
  
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• Sainsbury's steps up discount battle with plans for more Netto stores

  09-01-2016 00:42 via telegraph.feedsportal.com
  
  Sainsbury's lodges 10 planning applications for new Netto stores in the UK
  
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