Author: Nathan Bissitt

The UK’s industrial output grew at its fastest pace so far this year in September, according to official figures.Production rose by 0.7% compared with the month before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, boosted by machinery and equipment

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If we needed reminding, the Paradise Papers have shown how attractive it can be to keep money offshore. Wealthy individuals do it, companies do it. So can governments do anything about it?Can they get big firms and the rich to pay what many regard as their fair share

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Media playback is unsupported on your device President Donald Trump has said the US will no longer tolerate “chronic trade abuses”, in a defiant address at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit in Vietnam.He said the US was prepared to work

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The gap in pay between men and women will take 100 years to close, a campaign group has warned.Campaigners highlight 10 November as the point in 2017 when a woman on an average wage stops being paid relative to their male counterparts.But in some parts of the UK, the

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Walt Disney has announced a deal to make three new Star Wars movies.The company said it had struck a deal with Rian Johnson, director of the upcoming “Star Wars: The Last Jedi”, to create a new trilogy of the science fiction blockbuster.Disney is also

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More than 100 UK millionaires have been identified as tax dodgers after hiding their wealth using offshore schemes. Documents in the Paradise Papers leak show the identities of taxpayers who moved assets worth tens of millions of pounds into companies in Mauritius.The

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