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LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - British subprime lender Amigo
Loans is preparing for a stock market float in London that could
value the consumer credit firm at more than $700 million.
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PARIS, Feb 27 (Reuters) - French hotel group AccorHotels
said on Tuesday it had agreed to sell 55 percent of
its AccorInvest property business to a group of sovereign and
institutional investors for 4.4 billion euros ($5.3 billion).
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LONDON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Comcast's bid for pay-TV group
Sky and strong results from housebuilder Persimmon
helped keep Britain's FTSE 100 on an even keel on
Tuesday, as investors digested the first public comments from
new Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Online education company
Udacity, which offers courses in high-tech subjects such as
machine learning, said on Tuesday it more than doubled its
annual revenue last year and added about 34,000 new students to
its online degree programs.
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* Wall Street edges down on Fed Chair Powell's testimony
(Adds closing prices)
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Sixth formers across the UK invited to submit commentary on economics
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Feb 27 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co offered a
sunny business outlook on Tuesday, saying higher interest rates,
increased automation and growth in all of its business units
could boost pretax profit by 17.5 percent over the next few
years.
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* Woods says stuck with "local fixes" for EU rules
(Adds more details)
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - U.S. trade officials will
meet automakers Ford and General Motors on Tuesday,
two sources said, after a negotiator returned from NAFTA talks
in Mexico for consultations about rules governing the thorny
issue of regional content in cars.
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WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - U.S. bank profits were down
40.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 from a year earlier,
due primarily to one-time accounting changes from the new tax
law which is expected to boost profits in the long run, the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)...