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Skeleton emerges from Thames mud during work on super sewer

Company becomes the first peer-to-peer group to compete with mainstream banks

Financial services firms in Britain paid a record 75 billion pounds ($95.5 billion) in taxes in the last financial year, but City bosses warned a chaotic Brexit could blow a hole in the industry's tax receipts in future years.

British consumer spending grew last month at its slowest pace in more than a year, excluding Easter distortions, with online Black Friday sales failing to offset a lack of confidence about the economy ahead of Brexit, industry data showed on Tuesday. Total retail spending was...

U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc said on Monday it was not looking to revive its abandoned $44 billion acquisition of Dutch peer NXP Semiconductors NV, a day after the White House said China would reconsider clearing a deal if it was attempted again.

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Speaker agrees move after opposition parties unite in protest

Nexstar Media Group Inc said on Monday it had agreed to buy Chicago-based peer Tribune Media Company for about $4.1 billion in cash, a deal that would make it the largest regional U.S. TV station operator.

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KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The World Bank will give equal weight to curbing emissions and helping poor countries deal with the "disastrous effects" of a warming world as it steps up investments to tackle climate change in the first half of the 2020s, it said...

Top U.S. Federal Reserve officials say a strong economy will likely keep their rate increase plans intact, but on Monday a key signal began to waver that may intensify debate about whether conditions are as solid as they seem. The gap in interest rates between 2-year and 10-year Treasury securities narrowed...