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Press Round-Up Short (Premium)
31 Dec
Iran
Sunday newspaper round-up: Iran, UK retailers, Funding Circle

Two people are understood to have been killed after Iranian security forces reportedly opened fire on anti-government demonstrators on Saturday as the largest protests seen in the country since 2009 continued for a third day. Reports of the two deaths were were posted on social media. There was no official confirmation of the fatalities but the posted images appeared to show several bodies being carried away after clashes with police in the western city in Dorud.

29 Dec
noticias
Friday newspaper round-up: UK wages, lack of staff, RBS, Thomas Cook

Britain is set to have the worst wage growth of any wealthy nation next year, ranking behind Italy, Greece and Hungary, according to analysis by the TUC. The UK is forecast to come bottom from 32 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development wealthy nations for wage performance in 2018, according to the study of OECD figures by the unions’ umbrella group. - Guardian.

28 Dec
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Automation, business growth, Lloyds

The rise of the machine economy risks social disruption by widening the gap between rich and poor in Britain, as automation threatens jobs generating £290bn in wages. Jobs accounting for a third of annual pay in the UK risk being automated, according to the study by the IPPR thinktank. Warning that low-paid roles are in the greatest danger, it urged ministers to head off the prospect of rising inequality by helping people retrain and share in the benefits from advances in technology.

27 Dec
noticias
Wednesday newspaper round-up: house prices, Boxing Day sales, Odey

House price growth looks set to judder to a halt in 2018 or at best manage a small below-inflation rise, as the twin spectres of Brexit and rising interest rates put the brakes on the property market. Following what some have called a lacklustre year, homeowners and those looking to sell in the coming months have been told to expect an underwhelming and subdued 2018, with a number of leading commentators predicting UK house prices will either stay flat next year or perhaps rise by 1% or so.

22 Dec
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Friday newspaper round-up: Tesco, Catalonia, Vauxhall, inheritance tax

Dave Lewis, the chief executive of Tesco, has “some explaining to do” about why the company did not reveal its inspectors had unearthed “major” process issues at a second 2 Sisters Food Group factory, an influential MP has said. The supermarket chain conducted a series of emergency inspections of 2 Sisters poultry factories as a direct response to a Guardian and ITV undercover investigation into its West Bromwich site at the end of September. – Guardian .

21 Dec
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Agency workers, car manufacturing, Bitcoin

Agency workers are collectively underpaid by £400m a year compared to their full-time counterparts, with the pay gap costing temporary admin staff £990 a year on average, according to new research. The Resolution Foundation said the loss of pay across all sectors took the average loss for each of the UK’s 800,000 agency workers to £500 a year, up from £430 last year. – Guardian.

20 Dec
noticias
Wednesday newspaper round-up: US tax bill, EU referendum, LSE, Saudi Aramco

Senate Republicans have passed a sweeping overhaul of the US tax code, placing Donald Trump on the brink of scoring his first major legislative victory. The Senate approved the $1. 5 trillion tax bill, which includes permanent tax breaks for corporations and temporary tax cuts for individuals, by a final vote of 51-48. Once enacted, the legislation will represent the most drastic changes to the US tax code since 1986. – Guardian.

19 Dec
noticias
Tuesday newspaper round-up: Fat cat pay, Toys R Us, LSE

Several of Britain’s best-known companies, including Burberry, Sky and Sports Direct, are included on a list ordered by the prime minister of firms rewarding bosses with “fat cat pay” and representing the “unacceptable face of capitalism”. More than a fifth of Britain’s FTSE listed-firms are included on the “name and shame” register of companies that Theresa May said risk damaging “the social fabric of our country” by paying bosses too much money.

18 Dec
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Monday newspaper round-up: Defence budgets, trade deal, house prices, LSE

Growing global tensions mean ­defence spending is about to hit its highest level since the Cold War peak of the Eighties. Data from IHS Markit Jane’s defence analysts forecast that arms spending will hit $1. 67 trillion in the coming year – overtaking the recent high seen in 2010 of $1. 63  trillion. - Telegraph.

15 Dec
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Friday newspaper round-up: HS2, Airbus, Millennium & Copthorne

The US’s top media regulator voted to end rules protecting an open internet on Thursday, a move critics warn will hand control of the future of the web to cable and telecoms companies. At a packed meeting of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in Washington, the watchdog’s commissioners voted three to two to dismantle the “net neutrality” rules that prevent internet service providers (ISPs) from charging websites more for delivering certain services or blocking others should they, for example, compete with services the cable company also offers.

14 Dec
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Thursday newspaper round-up: Brexit defeat, Ofwat, Russian gas, Heathrow

Theresa May suffered her first Brexit defeat in the Commons last night as Tory “mutineers” ensured that MPs must approve the terms of Britain’s departure from the EU. The move prompted recriminations from Leave supporters who accused pro-Remain MPs of trying to delay or reverse the EU referendum result by creating the opportunity to reject the terms of withdrawal at a later date. - The Times.

13 Dec
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Ryanair, Uber, Walt Disney/21st Century Fox

The World Bank will end its financial support for oil and gas exploration within the next two years in response to the growing threat posed by climate change. In a statement that delighted campaigners opposed to fossil fuels, the Bank used a conference in Paris to announce that it “will no longer finance upstream oil and gas” after 2019. – Guardian.

12 Dec
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Trump tax warning, oil pipeline, Comcast, wages

Philip Hammond has joined other EU treasury ministers in warning President Trump about tax plans that they say would breach international agreements and hammer the City of London. In a letter they express “significant concerns” that the Trump administration’s tax plans would have a “major distortive impact on international trade”. - The Times.

11 Dec
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Monday newspaper round-up: Brexit, energy cap, fund charges, defence review

Theresa May will insist that “nothing is agreed until everything is agreed” on the terms of Brexit after the Irish government claimed that last week's preliminary deal is binding. The Prime Minister will say in the House of Commons on Monday that although she is optimistic that a deep and special future deal can be agreed, last week's agreement is contingent on such an outcome. - Telegraph.

10 Dec
sundays
Sunday newspaper round-up: Retail M&A, Unilever, Brexit trade deal, bitcoin, Apple

The City is beginning to talk excitedly about the prospect of a flurry of deals in UK retail as many of the big names seriously struggle, with the tipping being the expected green light for Tesco's takeover of wholesaler Booker. A tie-up between Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s is one, but senior retailers insist almost anything is possible in the current climate, involving Next, Morrisons, Asda or the long-rumoured merger of Debenhams and House of Fraser. - Sunday Telegraph.

08 Dec
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Friday newspaper round-up: Bitcoin, Asda, Pret, Buzzfeed

Bitcoin has been likened to Dante’s Inferno by the chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland. As the digital currency surged towards $16,000, Sir Howard Davies suggested it should carry a similarly apocalyptic warning for investors. Davies, a former head of the UK’s top financial watchdog, called on the Bank of England and other authorities around the world to launch a coordinated warning against the digital currency. – Guardian.

07 Dec
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Thursday newspaper round-up: China, Brexit, zombie companies

Fears that China risks being the cause of a fresh global financial crisis have been highlighted by the International Monetary Fund in a hard-hitting warning about the growing debt-dependency of the world’s second biggest economy. The IMF’s health check of China’s financial system found that credit was high by international levels, that personal debt had increased in the past five years, and that the pressure to maintain the country’s rapid growth had bred an unwillingness to let struggling firms fail.

06 Dec
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Wednesday newspaper round-up: Brexit, UK electoral laws, GE, Deliveroo

Theresa May is facing mounting pressure to secure a breakthrough in EU negotiations after the Democratic Unionist party expressed shock at the handling of the Irish border question and Brexit-supporting Conservatives said the time had come to walk away. Senior cabinet members also voiced unease at May’s tactics, and complained they were not informed in advance about Downing Street’s plan to promise the EU some form of “regulatory alignment” to help move the divorce talks on to the next stage.

05 Dec
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Tuesday newspaper round-up: Housebuilders, LSE, RBS

More than one in six people working on housebuilding sites across Britain come from other EU countries, rising to half of site workers in London, according to a new report. A survey of 37,000 housebuilding workers across Britain shows 17. 7% are from the EU. More than half of those come from Romania, with 12% from Poland and almost 10% from Ireland. – Guardian.

04 Dec
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Monday newspaper round-up: BIS warning, Bitcoin, BT, AstraZeneca, Fox

Investors are ignoring warning signs that financial markets could be overheating and consumer debts are rising to unsustainable levels, the global body for central banks has warned in its quarterly financial health check. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) said the situation in the global economy was similar to the pre-2008 crash era when investors, seeking high returns, borrowed heavily to invest in risky assets, despite moves by central banks to tighten access to credit.