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• Ireland is launching a charm offensive on the UK's financial services market after ... - City A.M.

  02-11-2016 21:34
  
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  Ireland is launching a charm offensive on the UK's financial services market after ...
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  The Irish government has embarked on a charm offensive in a bid to lure parts of the UK's financial services market to Dublin in the aftermath of Brexit. Financial services minister Eoghan Murphy is meeting firms in the capital this week to discuss the ...en meer »
  
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• City news: Persimmon, Sirius Minerals, UK construction and Next

  02-11-2016 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PERSIMMON shrugged off Brexit fears as cheap lending rates and the Government’s Help to Buy scheme brought homebuyers out in force.
  
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• Wetherspoon could cut ties with EU suppliers of 'bullying' Brexit negotiation tactics

  02-11-2016 20:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE founder of one of Britain’s biggest pub groups has warned it could cut ties with European suppliers over a “bullying” approach by EU officials to Brexit negotiations.
  
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• Britain's economy to defy doom-mongering predictions and boom in 2017, says think tank

  02-11-2016 17:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITAIN'S economy is set to beat expectations and boom next year, as the vote to leave the European Union will not have the disastrous affect previously predicted, according to a leading economic think tank.
  
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• Raise interest rates! Bank of England urged to shield savers from inflation threat

  02-11-2016 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE Bank of England has been urged to consider savers and raise interest rates if inflation shoots up next year, in line with a think tank's predictions.
  
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• Fed will have little room to cut interest rates if recession hits | Kenneth Rogoff

  02-11-2016 15:59 via theguardian.com
  
  The US central bank should look at options including negative rates and higher inflation targets to stimulate the economyMarkets nowadays are fixated on how high the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in the next 12 months. This is dangerously shortsighted: the real concern ought to be how far it could cut rates in the next deep recession. Given that the Fed may struggle just to get its base interest rate up to 2% over the coming year, there will be very little room to cut if a recessi
  
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• Markets in a FRENZY amid speculation Donald Trump WILL win election race

  02-11-2016 13:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  FINANCIAL markets around the world have plunged amid rising expectations that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States.
  
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• Britons could BOYCOTT european booze if Juncker punishes UK, warns Wetherspoons boss

  02-11-2016 12:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BULLYING European leaders and their attempts to punish UK companies over Brexit could push British consumers into revolting against French wine and German beer, the chairman of pub chain Wetherspoon has warned.
  
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• Social media has us under surveillance – big business is the new Big Brother | Jonathan Freedland

  02-11-2016 11:50
  
  Admiral is the latest company to propose discounts to customers based on their behaviour – judged by their Facebook postsThink of it, to use the ingenious phrase coined by my colleague John Harris, as “Stasi capitalism”. That might sound like an overreaction to the announcement of a new car insurance scheme, but hear me out.Admiral has publicised a new service – firstcarquote – which it hopes will analyse the Facebook posts of first-time car owners, looking for evid
  
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• Poo power: Dutch dairy industry launches €150m biogas project

  02-11-2016 11:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Will a scheme to turn cow manure into biogas help the Netherlands lose its reputation as the ‘bad guy’ of Europe when it comes to agricultural emissions?
  The air smells fruity, slightly alcoholic. Against the strong hum of machinery, 175 cows are eating hay. As their dung drops to the slatted floor, a machine sweeps it through and it runs underneath the barn to a futuristic dome outside.The Heegs’ 75-hectare family farm in remote Friesland, in the north-west of the Netherlands,
  
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• Going blind in your 20s: 'when life sends lemons, make lemonade'

  02-11-2016 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Steph Cutler started out as a fashion designer but was forced to change direction, using her story to launch her motivational consultancy Making LemonadeWhat would you do if you were told you were going to lose your eyesight in three months? It happened to Steph Cutler, who was a successful fashion designer working for brands such Ted Baker and Marks & Spencer when, in her late 20s, she was told she would lose most of her vision within three months. As Cutler’s sight started to deterio
  
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• Homes underground – in pictures

  02-11-2016 08:00
  
  From an idiosyncratic ruined chapel in France to a second world war bunker in Hampshire, sink yourself into these subterranean properties Continue reading...
  
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• My EE number appears to be as mobile as my phone

  02-11-2016 07:00
  
  The pay-as-you-go sim stopped working but EE wouldn’t say whyI have just read your article (“EE has given my pay-as-you-go number to someone else”) regarding someone who had had the same mobile number for 16 years which was then mysteriously reallocated by EE . When my pay-as-you-go sim stopped working, EE told me that someone else was now using that number and the fraud department was investigating.Continue reading...
  
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• Hands off your money! Now you have to wait till you’re 80 to draw pension

  02-11-2016 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PLANS to make people wait until they are 80 to access a new Senior Citizen’s Pension were criticised by experts yesterday.
  
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• Abolish 20 taxes and set 15% flat rate of income tax in UK, says report

  02-11-2016 01:01
  Institute for Economic Affairs says changes would make those at top 13% better off, but incomes of those at bottom would rise 26%National insurance, business rates, stamp duty, the TV licence fee and excise duties on alcohol and tobacco should be among 20 taxes abolished by the government, a free market thinktank has said.A report published by the Institute for Economic Affairs has proposed a 15% flat rate of income tax and a VAT shakeup as part of a plan that would significantly reduce the size
  
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