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An influential City group is urging investors to oppose plans that would guarantee a multimillion pound share bonanza to executives at Anglo American as it finalises a $33bn merger with Canada’s Teck Resources.
Plans have been announced for a new "landmark tower" in London with double the floor space of Britain's tallest building, The Shard.
Millions of jobs in some of the most important sectors to the UK economy are at risk of being replaced by AI, according to OBR analysis.
Day two after a budget is always an important moment.
The future of TGI Fridays' British operations has been thrown into fresh doubt just a month after the well-known casual dining chain was bought by the manager of most of the brand’s global operations.
The remaining candidates to chair HSBC Holdings have been asked to pitch to the board of Europe's biggest lender next week as it seeks to finalise the appointment of a successor to Sir Mark Tucker.
Sticking to Labour's manifesto pledge and freezing income tax thresholds rather than raising income tax has hurt low- and middle-income earners, an influential thinktank has said.
This was a budget that had to recapture the confidence of the people who lend national governments money.
The chair of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has apologised and not ruled out his resignation over the accidental early release of the independent body's fiscal forecast.
Middlemen have pocketed almost £650m over five years from UK councils struggling with a housing crisis.

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