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TOP NEWS: Taylor Maritime makes conditional Grindrod Shipping offer
(Alliance News) - Taylor Maritime Investment Ltd has made a voluntary conditional cash offer for all shares it does not already own in Grindrod Shipping Holdings Ltd, the two companies...
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LONDON MARKET OPEN: Stocks fall as eyes on gilts; Fed minutes ahead
(Alliance News) - It was another less-than-stellar open for European equities on Wednesday, amid fears of a UK bond market cliff-edge, with the Bank of England due to pull its...
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PRESS: BoE may extend gilt programme to avoid cliff-edge - FT
(Alliance News) - The Bank of England has privately signalled that it may be willing to extend an emergency UK government bond buying programme beyond this week, the Financial Times...
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LONDON BRIEFING: Hopes of BoE gilt buying reprieve; UK GDP falls
(Alliance News) - Hopes that the Bank of England will extend emergency gilt buying and avoid a bond market cliff-edge were given a boost early Wednesday....
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TOP NEWS: UK GDP falls 0.3% on-month in August, worse than forecast
(Alliance News) - The UK economy registered a surprise decline in August, during what was a poor month for the consumer-facing sector, according to the Office for National Statistics on...
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LONDON MARKET EARLY CALL: Pound down on BoE bond warning; UK GDP ahead
(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 is called to open flat on Wednesday, some respite after five successive days of decline, but the pound remained under pressure in early trade...
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UK PM Liz Truss to face MPs after mini-budget wreaks financial chaos
(Alliance News) - The UK prime minister faces MPs on Wednesday for the first time since Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's GBP43 billion mini-budget tax giveaway unleashed chaos in the financial markets....
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House price anxiety drags down UK consumer confidence – survey
(Alliance News) - Homeowner anxiety about house values has cancelled out any reassurance from the government's freeze on energy bills to drag down consumer confidence for another month, a survey...
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TOP NEWS: Bank of England warns market support will end on Friday
(Alliance News) - The pound has fallen again after the Bank of England governor warned that its emergency support package for the markets would end on Friday....
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TOP NEWS: UK government takes aim at wind farm profits with new rules
(Alliance News) - Renewable energy generators and nuclear power plants could have their revenues capped under a new UK government plan to ensure they are not benefitting from record-high energy...
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