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Asia bourses positive ahead of lunar new year break
Friday 02.15 GMT Overview Stocks across Asia are broadly higher as most of the region prepared for the lunar new year long weekend. Hot topic The US dollar continued to rise in Asia, still making...
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Asia bourses mostly positive ahead of lunar new year
Friday 05.00 GMT Overview Stocks across Asia were broadly higher as most of the region prepared for the lunar new year long weekend. Hot topic The US dollar continued to rise in Asia trading, still...
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Brazilian markets flying high over economic reality
The rebound in Brazil’s economy that many expected following last year’s change of government has failed to materialise. GDP will grow just 0.5 per cent this year according to a central bank survey....
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Vijay Mallya hits back at India’s $1.3bn debt claim
Vijay Mallya has denied that he fled India leaving behind $1.3bn of unpaid loans, after Indian authorities this week charged the billionaire industrialist with criminal conspiracy, dishonesty and...
View ArticleThe dangers of writing coal’s obituary
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View ArticleAmerican markets soar to most expensive for 15 years
America’s Dow Jones index broke through 20,000 for the first time in history on Wednesday, helping to take American markets to their most expensive in 15 years. The index, which represents just 30...
View ArticleA case of wrong numbers adding up for BT
Mi dispiace, ho sbagliato numero* Well, what did BT’s chief executive, smouldering Gavin Patterson, expect? Italy is ranked 60th out of 176 countries in Transparency International’s corruption index,...
View ArticleAlliance Trust to shrink by a quarter
The deal will see the giant fund shrink substantially: over the past month it has already repurchased more than 30 million shares from disgruntled investors, representing 6pc of the total pool of...
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Trump trade accelerates in president’s first week
Donald Trump’s first week as US president has re-energised Wall Street bulls while sharpening concern about the risk of higher inflation and trade protectionism. The sense of fatigue that hung over...
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Chinese curbs to crimp Thai real estate inflows
Demand for homes in Thailand is growing among middle-income Chinese buyers drawn in by the low cost of real estate relative to mainland China. Although Chinese buyers still account for a relatively...
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China stakes claim for illiberal globalism
Hun Sen, Cambodia’s prime minister of 32 years’ standing, has experienced the benevolent embrace of both the west and China. Since the “killing fields” pogroms of the Khmer Rouge ravaged his country...
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Trump’s campaign rhetoric raises stakes in Mexico
Mexico has been in the crosshairs this week as US president Donald Trump held true to his campaign rhetoric and ordered the construction of a wall along the Mexican border, with White House press...
View ArticleLondonMetric chairman profits from property
January 27, 2017 by: Jonas Crosland and Alex Newman, Investors Chronicle The UK real estate market may be facing a period of uncertainty as the leaving process for the UK from the EU starts to unfold....
View ArticleEasyJet slips amid fears of dividend cut
Fears of a dividend cut put easyJet under pressure on Friday. Goldman Sachs and Davy both cut ratings on the airline following a trading update this week from the airline that showed the impact of...
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Colgate-Palmolive dives as sales underwhelm
Colgate-Palmolive shares had their biggest one-day drop since July 2010 after the consumer products company said fourth-quarter sales missed analysts’ estimates and cautioned that global uncertainty...
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May to explore trade deal with Turkey
Theresa May arrives in Ankara on Saturday to hold talks with her “important ally,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, amid criticism that Britain is prioritising a trade agreement and arms sales to...
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Indonesian property demand to weaken further amid household income jitters
January 28, 2017 by: FT Confidential Research • Property demand in Indonesia is set to fall to a new low amid concerns among households about their income growth and the economic outlook, an FT...
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Corruption on the rise in Gulf countries
Middle Eastern countries have seen a “drastic” rise in their perceived level of corruption in the past year, according to analysis by Transparency International. Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi...
View ArticleBuy these 5 stocks to profit as interest rates rise
Higher rates will also attract more customers in some areas of its business. Annuity rates, for example, are tied to interest rates, so, as interest rates rise, annuity rates will follow, making them...
View ArticleThe hidden investment commission you don't know you're paying
On an investment of £100,000, for example, advice fees would cost £3,000 initially and £500 annually thereafter, rising or falling in line with the portfolio’s performance. When the saver pays the...
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