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Poll of Tory grassroots shows little enthusiasm for PM’s withdrawal agreement

Poll of Conservative grassroots shows little enthusiasm for PM’s withdrawal agreement

Mean pay of a FTSE 100 boss has risen to £5.7m a year in spite of shareholder revolts

Mean pay of a FTSE 100 boss has risen to £5.7m a year in spite of shareholder revolts

Benedict Cumberbatch plays with sympathy the man who coined the ‘take back control’ slogan

Decline in numbers adds to pressures ahead of Brexit

The onset of world financial market stress is usually heralded by the ringing of several alarm bells, few of them louder than a steep and rapid rise in the value of the Japanese yen.

Fed Chair Jerome Powell's hope for a more plainspoken approach to his job may have landed him in hot water with markets and require more "nuance" going forward, a former top Fed official said on Thursday in a critique of the current U.S. central bank.

Three former Credit Suisse Group AG bankers were arrested in London on Thursday on U.S. charges that they took part in a fraud scheme involving $2 billion in loans to state-owned companies in Mozambique, a spokesman for U.S. prosecutors said.

Investors pulled $98 billion from U.S.-based stock funds in December, a calendar-month record that emphasizes the diminishing goodwill in financial markets, preliminary Lipper estimates showed on Thursday. Fund investors trimmed their risk in the final days of 2018 to hunker down in case the Federal Reserve...