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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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Equifax quarterly profits plunged 27% and revenue growth was lower in the most recent quarter, as the credit bureau grappled with fallout from a major data breach.The firm has said personal information of more than 145 million people in the US and the UK may have been

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Advertising agencies are expected to rake in a record £6bn over the Christmas period, according to an industry body forecast.The Advertising Association says it is being driven by intense competition, especially within the retail sector, and the rise of big-budget

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Dressing angst. We’ve all had it. Does this outfit make me look fat? Is it inappropriate for work? Is it something someone half may age would wear? Should I just give up and stay in bed forever?It’s then we need help and advice from people we

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Tens of thousands of energy users will no longer have to pay up to £900 each if they are forced to have a pre-payment meter installed.From January, energy regulator Ofgem is to set a maximum charge of £150 in such cases.The most vulnerable will see their charges

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US interest rates are likely to rise again next month and a further three times next year, one of the Federal Reserve’s rate-setters has said.John Williams, who sits on the Fed’s Open Markets Committee, said a rate rise in December “makes sense, at

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The US car industry will be wrecked if President Trump relaxes emissions standards, California’s governor says.Jerry Brown said China would dominate car manufacture because it was heavily promoting the electric vehicles that would dominate the future.He said

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