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Shares in WPP slid by 9% at the start of trading after the advertising giant reported slowing sales and warned about future growth.The company said that group performance had been “much tougher” for the first seven months of its financial year.It blamed

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Household bills are rising more slowly than the rate of inflation, new research has found.The figures suggested that key elements of the “cost of living squeeze” may be less severe than previously thought. Research by MoneySavingExpert, based on official

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Chinese carmaker Great Wall Motor has said it has not held talks with Fiat Chrysler, putting a possible bid for its Jeep brand in doubt.Great Wall confirmed it had researched the US-Italian carmaker but made no substantial progress towards a deal.In a statement to the

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The US has imposed sanctions on a dozen Russian and Chinese companies and individuals it accuses of helping North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme. It comes after the UN Security Council, including Russia and China, voted for further sanctions against

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An initiative is trying to turn Middle Eastern migrants in Europe into technology entrepreneurs.In the style of the BBC’s international television series looking for new ideas and entrepreneurs, this is a kind of “Dragon’s Den for

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Many of us are still on our summer holidays so thinking about Christmas might seem premature. But for businesses providing festive food, drinks and presents, things are already gearing up. The festive season begins for a lot of retailers when they send out their

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Fiddling distractedly with her headscarf and in words little louder than a whisper, Amar Al-Sadi tells me Malta has saved her from a life of bombs, rubble and deadly disease.Her family escaped war-torn Yemen on a United Nations evacuation flight two years ago.

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Identity theft is reaching “epidemic levels”, according to a fraud prevention group, with people in their 30s the most targeted group.ID fraudsters obtain personal information before pretending to be that individual and apply for loans or store cards in

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UK employers are growing increasingly worried about the economy, new research has found.A survey of 601 employers by the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) found 31% expect the economy to worsen, with only 28% expecting it to improve.Employers’

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The size of the gender pay gap in the movie industry has been laid bare in new estimates of stars’ pay packets.The world’s 10 best-paid actors earned a total of $488.5m (£380.5m) in the past year, Forbes magazine calculated.That’s almost three times

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