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• City news: Ryanair, Eurostar, car sales, Paddy Power

  04-11-2016 20:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  AIRLINE boss Willie Walsh hopes a deal for Ryanair to provide feeder services for Aer Lingus’s long-haul flights will take off.
  
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• Sterling soars on Trump jitters and Brexit hopes

  04-11-2016 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Political upheaval helps pound end week almost 3% higher against US dollar – its best performance since October 2009Speculation that the UK could avoid a hard Brexit from the European Union, and fears that Donald Trump might snatch a last-minute victory in the race for the White House, have helped sterling register its biggest weekly gain against the US dollar in seven years.The pound’s respite from its recent heavy falls on the foreign exchanges continued on Friday when it put on a
  
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• M&S expected to announce closure of up to 30 stores

  04-11-2016 16:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Outlets in towns and shopping centres likely to bear brunt of cuts as part of chief executive Steve Rowe’s turnaround planMarks & Spencer is expected to announce the closure of up to 30 stores next week as part of an attempt to revive the British retailer.Smaller outlets in flagging towns and shopping centres are likely to form the bulk of the closures, and other stores could be relocated or downsized over several years, potentially leading to thousands of job losses. Continue reading.
  
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• Will the US election mean the end of free trade?

  04-11-2016 16:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Hillary Clinton opposes TPP while Donald Trump threatens tariffs – both their policies will leave most people worse offThere is a tendency to overendow political events with economic significance. However, the 2016 US presidential election could deliver a tectonic shift in international economic relations.For the most part, the candidates’ platforms are standard, partisan fare. Hillary Clinton argues for investment in education and infrastructure, and a higher minimum wage. Donald Tr
  
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• Let’s move to Ottery St Mary, Devon: ‘It’s fond of its quaint customs’

  04-11-2016 16:30
  
  We can only applaud this plucky townWhat’s going for it? “Tradition has it”: three words to strike terror into the souls of the sane. Tradition has it that on 5 November the people of Ottery St Mary shall run through the streets of the town carrying flaming 30kg barrels of tar above their heads. Why? Why not? Tradition has it. The West Country is full of fire and light festivals as autumn tumbles towards winter. No stranger, after all, than throwing effigies of catholics/Donald
  
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• Trade relationships with the US ripe for the taking post-Brexit

  04-11-2016 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  While the controversial TTIP talks with Europe have stalled, Britain could take advantage by crafting its own imaginative bilaterial economic agreementIn a workshop in West Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains there is an unlikely source of common ground for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. From this humble setting, high-end cabinets are crafted for the luxury market by the employees of Christopher Peacock, a Briton who moved to the US in 1987.Continue reading...
  
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• I have a dream job but the commute is a nightmare – what should I do?

  04-11-2016 08:00
  
  I have given up my hobbies and am tired a lot of the time, but working from home isn’t an optionTwice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights. I am very blessed in that I have landed my dream job. After costly and exhausting retraining, hundreds of hours of voluntary work, dozens of
  
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• A luxury Paris houseboat – in pictures

  04-11-2016 08:00
  
  Moored in an idyllic location near the Pont Neuf, you’ll experience Louvre at first sight every morning in this mahogany-lined millionaire’s tub Continue reading...
  
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• Google, Facebook and Microsoft race to get 1 billion Indians online

  04-11-2016 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tech giants hope to benefit from widening access in a country where just 26% of the population has access to the internetWhen Manish Kumar first came to the village of Harisal in western India in July, he didn’t think he could stay there for very long.
  “It was monsoon, so it was difficult to reach because the roads were bad. There was no phone signal, and the electricity only comes on for a few hours in the evening. The people there are farmers, so they wake up early. They work all d
  
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• How UK financial institution Nationwide is winning over millennials ... - Digiday

  04-11-2016 05:09
  
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  How UK financial institution Nationwide is winning over millennials ...
  Digiday
  Companies like British building society Nationwide aren't known for captivating youngsters. But the mutual finance institution has been winning over millennials ...en meer »
  
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• Firms vie to erect masts that link UK to European financial centres - Property Week

  04-11-2016 01:02
  
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  Firms vie to erect masts that link UK to European financial centres
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  In the cut-throat world of financial trading every second counts. Even a millisecond can make the difference between making or losing millions of pounds. Power station, Kent. Two firms want to erect masts on the site of a demolished power station in Kent.
  
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• End of the property boom? UK house prices to flatline, says forecast

  04-11-2016 01:01
  
  Uncertainty caused by the EU referendum and weaker consumer sentiment will result in zero growth in 2017, according to SavillsThe British property market’s post-crash boom will come to a halt in 2017 when house prices flatline after five years of increases, according to an industry forecast.Uncertainty caused by the EU referendum and weaker consumer sentiment will result in two quiet years in the housing market, according to property firm Savills, with zero growth next year followed by a 2
  
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• 'Don't get Brexited', UK campaigners tell US voters - The Financial ... - Financial Express

  04-11-2016 00:30
  
  Financial Express
  'Don't get Brexited', UK campaigners tell US voters - The Financial ...
  Financial Express
  Saskia McCulloch, a New Zealand citizen living in London, said she could not register in time to vote in the EU referendum -- residents from Commonwealth ...en meer »
  
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