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• UK Supermarket Shares Soar Before Uncertainty Seeps - Financial Tribune

  08-01-2017 23:59
  
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  UK Supermarket Shares Soar Before Uncertainty Seeps
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  Britain's three quoted major supermarkets are expected to report this week that they enjoyed solid Christmas trading, though investor concern about a potential squeeze on consumer spending in 2017 means the focus is on their outlooks. Shares in market ...en meer »
  
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• UK Eying Customs Union Access for Some Sectors - Financial Tribune

  08-01-2017 23:59
  
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  UK Eying Customs Union Access for Some Sectors
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  Britain is looking to secure privileged EU customs union access, work visas and tax breaks for certain sectors as part of a plan to protect key industries when it exits the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May has so far said very little about ...en meer »
  
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• City News: Manufacturing, Brit musicians, and super yachts

  08-01-2017 22:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HALF of manufacturing firms are braced for a decline in economic conditions this year, although they still expect to increase sales, a study shows.
  
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• Share Hunter: Stiff competition puts Next under pressure

  08-01-2017 22:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE end of the festive season means the start of the retailers’ Christmas reporting period. As usual, Next was first out of the traps.
  
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• Christmas shoppers gave retailers some festive cheer with record spending

  08-01-2017 21:51 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  CONSUMER spending recorded its fastest growth for two years in the run-up to Christmas, as shoppers snapped up online bargains, visited festive markets and travelled to celebrations, according to an index.
  
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• The Guardian view on the housing crisis: right to rent | Editorial

  08-01-2017 20:21
  
  For too long councils have been unable to build for rent. The housing white paper should bring them in from the coldThe scale of the housing crisis is now as great as it was in 1951. That was the year in which Harold Macmillan, then housing minister, made his famous pledge to build 300,000 new homes a year. His success in achieving it helped pave his way to Downing Street. But decisions he made then can now be seen as the root of both the current critical shortage of homes and the matching infla
  
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• Shopper's champion goes on the offensive over UK retail's sexist surcharge

  08-01-2017 18:18
  
  Labour MP Paula Sherriff plans more successes like repeal of the tampon tax with firms signing up to charter vowing not to indulge in gender pricingFirst day nerves got to Paula Sherriff. Looking around at her Labour colleagues from the 2015 parliamentary intake, the new MP for Dewsbury in West Yorkshire saw former special advisers and academic high-fliers with Oxbridge degrees.“I’d never been to university, so I felt completely out of my depth,” sighs Sherriff. “But then
  
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• Save on tax: 10 ways to - legally - cut what you pay to HMRC

  08-01-2017 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITONS can take a few simple steps to reduce the amount of cash they hand over to the taxman in 2017 - without breaking the law.
  
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• Nearly 3m UK couples missing out on free tax break

  08-01-2017 13:44
  
  HMRC campaign bids to reverse low take-up on George Osborne tax break worth up to £220 a yearMore than 2.9 m couples across the UK are missing out on a free tax break worth up to £220 a year, according to HM Revenue and Customs which has launched a campaign to get more people to apply for its transferrable marriage allowance.Since April 2015, couples in which one person pays no tax because their income is less than the personal allowance – currently £11,000 – have b
  
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• Use this trick to save big money on holiday bookings with Expedia, British Airways & more

  08-01-2017 08:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MILLIONS of people are set to book their 2017 holiday in January and just one simple trick can save more than 10 per cent on flight and hotel bookings with big-name brands, including Expedia, British Airways and Booking.com.
  
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• No one can afford to stop the new consumer credit crisis

  08-01-2017 08:05
  
  The Bank of England is too complacent about rising debt in households with stagnant incomes. But government dare not risk any slowdown in spendingConsumer debt has raised its ugly head again. According to the latest figures, the total has soared back to a level last seen just before the 2008 financial crash. To the untrained eye, the dramatic increase in spending using credit cards and loans might appear to prefigure a disaster of epic proportions.Excessive consumer debt played a big part in the
  
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• Taking flight from BA as it washes its hands of our problems

  08-01-2017 08:00
  
  No compensation after delays, lost luggage and no premium economy seatsI booked premium economy return flights with British Airways from Manchester to Mexico City via Heathrow. Unfortunately, due to fog and because a passenger decided not to fly, the Manchester flight was delayed so I missed my flight from Heathrow to Mexico City. British Airways rebooked me on an Iberia flight to Madrid, but this was also delayed so I had to stay in a hotel in Madrid overnight. I got a lunchtime flight the next
  
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• Murder, she wrote: the missing bankers thriller

  08-01-2017 08:00
  
  Whodunnit writer Elizabeth Corley will be telling MPs all about disappearing City jobs this weekWhen thousands of bankers reportedly disappear, a special committee is called in to investigate. Will it solve the mystery and save the UK economy? Or have the City jobs vanished forever?That all sounds like a case for superintendent Andrew Fenwick, the hero of the acclaimed crime novels of Elizabeth Corley, who in her far more tedious career is also vice-chair of Allianz Global Investors. Continue re
  
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• Brexit wasn’t a ‘Michael Fish moment’: but economics does need to change

  08-01-2017 08:00
  
  The Bank of England’s Andy Haldane is right to point to problems in economists’ training. But his capitulation to the critics went too farWhen the Bank of England looks around in a couple of years to replace Mark Carney as governor, Andy Haldane will need to work hard to win over the selection panel. The central bank’s chief economist can’t help attracting publicity, and not always in a good way.Last week he was in hot water following his capitulation to the bullying Brex
  
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• The secret life of a food courier

  08-01-2017 07:00
  
  It sounds gruelling, but Katie Horwich finds poetry in cycling through the capital, making sure the city is well fedThe first meal I delivered was a single lobster bisque to a penthouse overlooking St Katherine Docks. A cufflinked wrist thrust out from behind a door to retrieve it. My bike was lit by moonlight, the boats swayed in the harbour, and despite not seeing his face, I had the fleeting thought that this could be the most romantic job of my life.I’ve been a Deliveroo rider for a fe
  
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• Rising retirement age means that smart saving is more important than ever

  08-01-2017 01:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  WHO WANTS to work forever?
  
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