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The autumn Budget was less the promised “reboot of UK capital markets” and “more a light dusting of the keyboard”, says Tim Focas in City AM. A three-year stamp duty holiday for new listings is all ve

“All government leaders know what to do. They just don’t know how to get re-elected if they do it.” Jean-Claude Juncker, the former president of the European Commission, said little of note in his pol

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Issue of the week: a Budget for business? ...

Budget fiasco: That the whole of Wednesday’s Budget was erroneously published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) an hour before chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) stood up to give her spee

THREE YEARS OF EUPHORIA IN STOCKS AND OTHER ASSETS HAVE INVESTORS BRACING FOR TROUBLE. HERE’S WHAT TO DO IF BAD NEWS ARRIVES.