business
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Up to 75,000 business people who regularly travel to the UK are to be given new rights to speed their transit through London
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Not since the Great Depression has wealth inequality in the US been so acute, new in-depth study finds
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Brisbane’s to-do list is clear: action on tax avoidance, free trade etc. What is unclear is whether the talks will make any difference
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Australia’s national carrier to increase meal size by 50% and offer boxset TV specials as part of move to secure profits
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Kelly will step down on 1 February, to be replaced by Brian Hartzer
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Labor’s Sam Dastyari says a Senate inquiry will look into the claims large companies operating in Australia are avoiding tax
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September figures show a surprise 1.2% monthly rise, influenced mainly by electronics spending, ABS figures reveal
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Chief executive Gail Kelly says home loans helped boost earnings and similar increases are expected in 2015
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Melbourne-based bank determined to deal with low-returning assets that have been eating into its profits
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Big lenders have closed off finance to Abbot’s Point, says US environment group Rainforest Action Network
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Compensation action is in response to the temporary ban of Australian exports in 2011 following release of footage of cattle being mistreated in Indonesian abattoirs
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Australia’s trade minister says the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal should be concluded by the year’s end
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Shares rise as the airline’s $2bn cost-cutting program takes effect and a lower Australian dollar and oil price create a ‘more benign operating environment’
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Andrew Mackenzie says Colin Barnett is ‘completely wrong’ to suggest miner is trying to manage the commodity’s world price
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A former chairman of the Australian Coal Association will tell the resource company’s AGM climate change could destroy profits
opinion and analysis
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Tony Abbott says service industries – tourism, finance, education, law and accounting – will be big winners, but critics warn against rushing to a deal
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Mohamed El-Erian: The resurgence of the US currency could be the first promising step in steering the world economy away from crisis
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Institute for Fiscal Studies attacks PM’s accounting for including future cuts and says that by time of general election austerity plan will be less than 50% finished
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The transition from the mining boom is occurring at the same time the baby boomers are transitioning to retirement. We have a smaller percentage of the population working than in the past
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Sajid Javid’s campaign may be controversial, but government must close up signal ‘not-spots’ in rural areas
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The ‘significant items’ line in the HSBC profit and loss account will remain significant for some time yet
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Heidi Moore: The Federal Reserve has spent six years and over $3tn buying up bonds to save the economy. Now it has to figure out how to sell it all back without creating a panic
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The impact of quantitative easing was blunted by unconventional monetary policies and conservative fiscal policies
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As the bank seeks to shrink by another 9,000 jobs, the case is clearer than ever for action to improve the UK’s skills levels
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Larry Elliott: While the initial response to European Central Bank’s stress tests has been positive, there are good reasons to be wary
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Economic growth slowed to 0.7% in the third quarter from 0.9% in the second. Growth was broad-based across all major sectors. Here is the view from the experts
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Nils Pratley: ‘Founder’ Julian Dunkerton steps aside for Euan Sutherland. While the newcomer’s CV impresses, his attire is questionable
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Hans-Werner Sinn: The eurozone should emulate the US approach in maintaining stability in a monetary union
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Phillip Inman: A bigger economy was supposed to mean profitable firms paying more tax. And more employment was supposed to push up income tax receipts
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The UK’s public finances deteriorated further in September, putting the chancellor further off course in his deficit reduction plans
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Larry Elliott: Upbeat figures on growth, unemployment and inflation are cancelled out by what’s happening to real wage growth, productivity and real interest rates
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Research suggests that a sizeable proportion of people working on a freelancers and casual basis are doing so out of choice
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Importers and producers will be significantly impacted, business costs will fall and consumers’ incomes will stretch further
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Nils Pratley: Profitability means supermarkets could go cap in hand to shareholders to get fresh finance
features
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From Libor rigging and sanction busting to forex manipulation, a look back at the global banking industry’s offences and penalties
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The award-winning charity used to distribute medicines packaged with Coke bottles to remote rural areas, but it had to adapt and move on as it became more successful
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Politicians at Dublin’s Web Summit downplayed the impact of scrapping the controversial measure, despite criticism from a former Apple boss suggesting the country would lose its competitive edge, writes Henry McDonald
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With full oil exploration returning in areas threatened by Isis such as Iraq and Kurdistan, a veteran oil worker talks to Rupert Neate about the risks
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The stock market keeps hitting record highs. But be cautious: things are probably going to change
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Ikea UK country retail manager on internet expansion and Britain’s love-hate relationship with company’s flatpack furniture
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UK developer working on replacing heavy aircraft windows with uber-light smartscreen panels to cut fuel consumption and slash air fares
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The burger chain is facing problems abroad, but nothing as serious as the year-long decline in its huge home market, writes Jennifer Rankin
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Jill Treanor: banks preparing to reveal third-quarter results are struggling to deal with the internet age, with scrutiny and regulation growing tighter
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Dave Lewis has launched an accounting probe in the UK. Now he will tour his global empire, where the news is little better
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Once the butt of car jokes, demand for cheap, reliable vehicles have helped Dacia become Europe’s fastest-growing brand
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Robert Skidelsky: While the creditor-debtor conflict has always been the stuff of politics, that relationship embodies no iron law of morality
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Property tycoons who delight in showing off their wealth are the biggest ambassadors of their brand – opulence
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After launch to laundries and hotels, technology using tiny nylon beads and 80% less water planned for US domestic market
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Terry Macalister: Motorists, airlines and industry are enjoying low energy costs, the US is relishing its reduced reliance on the Middle East – and Opec is wondering how to reassert its authority
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The UK chancellor is joining the US treasury’s Jack Lew and other finance bosses to take part in a simulated banking crisis, designed to test our preparedness for another crash. But can there be any winners in this game?
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New method means teeth are able to repair themselves in the same amount of time as a normal filling takes
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Larry Elliott: markets are diving, Germany and the eurozone are weak and there is alarm over Ebola and a potential banking bubble, so the themes were sombre when the IMF and World Bank met in Washington last week
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Terry Macalister: The UK offshore area is no longer the draw it was when BP struck oil in the 1970s
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Virgin Atlantic lost a skirmish at home, but the war with British Airways over the Atlantic continues, writes Gwyn Topham
people
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Ikea UK country retail manager on internet expansion and Britain’s love-hate relationship with company’s flatpack furniture
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Turbulent six-year reign of first non-French CEO st Sanofi listed, France’s second biggest company, ended in sacking
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Property tycoons who delight in showing off their wealth are the biggest ambassadors of their brand – opulence
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Matt Salzberg, co-founder of Blue Apron, talks about the joys of cooking even when no one seems to have the time any more
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Andy Haldane’s admission that he was gloomier about the economy surprised the markets, but he insists the UK is doing well in some respects, writes Katie Allen
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World renowned investor who has left the $2tn firm he set up for rival spent four months learning to beat the system in casinos
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Jack Ma's Alibaba Group helped transform Chinese commerce; he is China's richest man and a hero to budding entrepreneurs
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The chief executive credited with turning round the 173-year-old travel company is upbeat despite a recent fall in the share price
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Spanish-born Iñaki Berenguer, working on his second startup, warns: ‘In five, 10 years, the US will not be the leader any more’
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The Virgin founder on the lessons of turning failure into success, the ice-bucket challenge and space travel. Interview by Alex Clark
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Simon Walker argues boards and shareholders should be far more 'activist' in holding chief executives to account
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Those who know him say that Lewis combines marketing and presentational skills with a strong grasp of the trading figures as well as international experience
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Tough task ahead for man once dubbed 'drastic Dave' at Unilever for turning around faltering brands
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The 'march of the makers' is just starting, but the UK head of the German giant sees great hope for British manufacturing
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City grandee, who has left Experian as chairman, has run into controversy in recent years
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Champagne, fancy cheese and even lower prices are on the menu as the discounter takes on the big four grocers
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American's area of expertise is coming up with strategies to defend against unwanted takeover bids like that from AbbVie
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Monetary policy committee external member signals end to ultra-cheap borrowing owing to stronger-than-expected growth
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… because they haven't got any. Benny Higgins has finally launched the supermarket bank's current account, but it is firmly app-based. Can it challenge the high street's big names, asks Jill Treanor
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Upmarket German appliance firm is still run by the great-grandsons of the original partners
Sydney’s house prices race up, but homeowners aren’t feeling any richer