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Department store chain Debenhams’ shares have sunk 15% after it warned that annual profits would be lower than expected because of disappointing trading over the key Christmas period. The retailer said underlying pre-tax profits were now likely to be between

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US stock markets opened at new highs on Thursday, with the blue chip Dow Jones Industrial Average crossing 25,000. The gains extended an eye-popping run for Wall Street, which has surged over the last 12 months amid growth in the US and global economies.On Thursday,

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A Canadian marijuana maker is set to sell cannabis in several European countries after striking a deal with Denmark’s biggest tomato producer.Aurora Cannabis is partnering with Alfred Pedersen & Son to produce cannabis for medical use in Europe.The

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Plans for the way farming subsidies will be dealt with after Brexit have been set out by Michael Gove.Farmers will receive payments for “public goods”, such as access to the countryside and planting meadows.The environment secretary told farmers the

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Media playback is unsupported on your device As technology companies race to fix two major vulnerabilities found in computer chips, the ways in which those chips could theoretically be targeted by hackers are becoming clear. Collectively, Meltdown and Spectre affect

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Classic car production has restarted at the Aston Martin factory in Buckinghamshire, which was being used mostly for car refurbishments over the last ten years.The company said the new DB4 model would create jobs and boost the economy in Newport Pagnell. Source:

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Practices for which some traders have been prosecuted, jailed or banned were company policy at the Swiss bank UBS, a court has heard.UBS staff were expected to take into account the bank’s commercial interests when setting the benchmark Libor rate, the High

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The UK’s four big High Street banks closed, or announced plans to shut, a total of 948 branches during 2017.The banks blamed the advance of technology, with customers turning to the internet and smartphones for day-to-day banking.However, one town in Flintshire

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Is there a link between mental health and the nation’s productivity? When Prince Harry was editing BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he asked us to look into this question.On a building site in east London, men in hard hats and hi-vis jackets are putting the

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Tobacco firm Philip Morris has placed an advertisement in some newspapers promoting its “ambition to stop selling cigarettes in the UK”.It is part of the company’s drive to achieve a “smoke-free future”.The owner of the Marlboro brand has

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