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First FT: May’s business plea, Sarkozy ousted, how to stop procrastinating

May offers fresh tax cuts and investment but calls for a fairer country

Monday, 21st November, 2016

Live markets commentary from FT.com

Viva la tax holiday, viva la share buybacks

Viva la revolution!

The curse of Indian cash scrapping

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Because “the clever” might just “find ways around” your note ban….

Further reading

From the politicisation of the Fed through to how Venezuela’s nemesis is a hardware salesman at a Home Depot in Alabama.

Last week

The machismo boom, “get them all jacked up” edition

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Everything old is new again!

First FT: Trump policy questions, Volkswagen slashes jobs and Britain’s metric martyrs

Donald Trump’s foreign policy continues to dominate the US presidential transition, with lingering fears over his Russia stance

Americans are spending a lot more at banks in ways they can’t see

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Some fun facts buried in the underlying details tables of the National Income and Product Accounts.

Friday, 18th November, 2016

Live markets commentary from FT.com

Nationwide pulls out of commercial property lending

Nationwide pulls out of commercial property lending. FT Opening Quote is your early Square Mile briefing. You can sign up for the full newsletter here.

What’d You Miss?*

This link wrap is in defence of Markets Live.

This could be awkward

TMay

Theresa May is about to appear on a very public platform emblazoned with the name of a certain accountancy firm…

Welcome to Ve Interactive, Stuart Chambers

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Some notes for the in-tray of the former chairman of Arm Holdings

First FT: Trump meets first foreign leader, heads roll at Rio Tinto and lessons from the 1930s

Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is seizing the chance to lobby the president-elect while key US policies are in flux

Funding Circle reaps the seeds it sowed in America (updated)

Funding Circle Founders Samir Desai 
									James Meekings  and Andrew Mullinger

Defaults on the P2P lender’s US loans are on the up and up.

US Steel is the new lean startup

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Unless you work at a bank, that is.

Thursday, 17th November, 2016

Live markets commentary from FT.com

Majestic’s half year hangover

FT Opening Quote, with commentary by Matthew Vincent, is your early Square Mile briefing. You can sign up for the full newsletter here.

Further reading

An extremely helpful list of fake and misleading news sites to watch and avoid. Also some links.

Introducing WorkerTech

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First there was Fintech, now there’s WorkerTech.

Facebook and the manufacture of consent

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The problem is not the fake news on Facebook. The problem is that you get what you pay for.

Peer-to-peer may have changed banking, but banking still won

Zopa chief executive Jaidev Janardana

It seems the P2P dream is over, at least for the company that pioneered it.

FTAV, refreshed…

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Brace yourself. FT Alphaville is getting a new look and feel.

If you can’t beat them, join them

Zopa is uniquely placed…

First FT: Trump transition disarray, BBC in North Korea and coconuts in peril

Key figures in president-elect’s transition team purged while those that remain are mired in infighting

Inflating inflation expectations

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Click for signposts to the inflation Rubicon.

Wednesday, 16th November, 2016

Live markets commentary from FT.com

Morrisons and Amazon expand delivery service

Your early Square Mile briefing, with commentary by City Editor Jonathan Guthrie.

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