Economics
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Brexit will cause 'vanishingly small' fall in net migration – reportReduction was a core wish of leave voters, but overall figure will probably fall by less than 15%, thinktank predicts
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Greece hopeful of imminent EU debt deal despite German warningGermany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble tells Athens it can cut its £280bn debt only by leaving the single currency
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Bank of England appoints Charlotte Hogg as deputy governorChief operating officer will manage Bank’s strategy during Brexit negotiations and sit on monetary policy committee
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Get off the sidelines: businesses can't play it safe politically in the age of TrumpConsumers and employees want to know where their companies stand on Trump’s policies. Here’s how businesses should be reacting
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Housing white paper raises more questions than answersLetters: The government persists in relying on ‘the market’ for the provision of something ‘the market’ does not want to provide: economic housing
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Greece in focus as investors fear fresh crisis –as it happenedMarkets fear Greece is on course for another debt crisis following rift between its European lenders and the International Monetary Fund
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Trump envoy says Greece is now more likely to leave the euroTed Malloch, proposed US ambassador to the EU, casts doubt on survival of eurozone and says Athens should return to drachma
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No big pay rises for Britons despite inflation, says Bank of EnglandBank forecasts that UK pay growth is likely to slow despite hopes being raised as economy shrugs off effects of Brexit vote
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UK tax burden will soar to highest level for 30 years, warns IFSSlower growth after Brexit vote and ageing population will hit budget over next decade, says leading thinktank
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The ECB’s Mario Draghi is right to warn against relaxing rules such as Dodd-Frank aimed at preventing another financial crisisTrump's bonfire of banking rules could burn us all
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British firms suffer Brexit impact, as ECB's Draghi warns on US protectionism – as it happenedHalf of UK bosses report that their firms are suffering from the vote to leave the EU; ECB’s Draghi warns on Trump administration comments
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Sartre’s Huis Clos has three damned souls locked in a room for eternity. Greece has Tsipras, Schäuble and Lagarde. Now there’s a fourth: enter stage right TrumpGreek debt crisis: an existentialist drama with no good end in sight
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For Carney, wages are the only true window to the futureThe current economy seems to defy the Bank of England’s predictions. Perhaps that is because pay growth has become so much harder to forecast
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Voting for Brexit hasn’t saved us from secretive trade dealsOnce the UK leaves the EU, Liam Fox will be presented with arrangements more secretive and toxic than anything the EU has ever demanded
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Universal basic income can help battle inequalityLetters: We prefer to hand people a grudging, dead dole on condition they work no more than 16 hours a week and apply for jobs that simply do not exist
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US economy created 227,000 new jobs in January, as jobless rate rises to 4.8% -as it happenedUS president expected to take steps to reverse financial regulations designed to protect consumers and prevent a repeat of the 2008 crisis
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Demand for gold hits four-year high after Brexit and Trump votesPolitical uncertainty drove investment demand up by 70% in 2016, while global demand was at highest level since 2013
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Grexit? Greece again on the brink as debt crisis threatens break with EUCountry faces critical few weeks as it struggles to meet bailout conditions and pressures rise in Germany and US
'No crisis' on Greece bailout deal, says eurozone chief