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‘Your identity is safe with us’, UK finance watchdog tells whistleblowers By Reuters

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial regulator launched a public campaign on Wednesday to reassure whistleblowers that their identities will be protected as the watchdog beefs up efforts to uncover wrongdoing. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said that whistleblowers passing on information will have a dedicated case manager, with every report...

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Brits should get their summer holiday in Europe, Ryanair’s O’Leary says By Reuters

By Sarah Young and Laurence Frost LONDON (Reuters) -Ryanair is reasonably confident that British tourists will be taking holidays across Europe in June, July and August, a ray of hope for the tourism industry amid gloom over a rise in COVID-19 cases in top destinations. Michael O'Leary, chief executive of Europe's biggest airline group, said his growing optimism was based on...

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Tesla Up 1% As Musk Says Its EVs Can Now Be Bought Using Bitcoin By Investing.com

By Dhirendra Tripathi Investing.com – Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares were up over 1% in Wednesday’s premarket trading on Elon Musk’s tweet that the company’s vehicles can now be purchased against payment in Bitcoin. Musk’s tweet backs up his much-publicized faith in the cryptocurrency. His company, Tesla, had invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin in January, a move that many didn’t like and one which contributed...

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Britain’s John Lewis to close 8 more stores, impacting 1,464 jobs By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - British retailer the John Lewis Partnership plans to close eight John Lewis department stores and they will not reopen when the current COVID-19 lockdown ends, impacting 1,464 jobs, it said on Tuesday. The country's biggest employee-owned group had warned earlier this month that more of its stores would be permanently closed after the "economic earthquake" of the pandemic sent...

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ECB says its policies may be cutting, not increasing inequality By Reuters

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Years of ultra-easy monetary policy from the European Central Bank may have actually cut inequality through job creation that disproportionately benefited the poorest in the bloc, the ECB said on Wednesday. The ECB has faced criticism that rock-bottom rates and its copious asset purchases mostly favour wealthy people who have ample financial assets and large mortgages, while penalising...

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Britain to launch new health security agency to battle pandemics By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will launch a new health security agency next week to better prepare for and tackle pandemics by bringing together its testing, analytical and scientific capabilities, health minister Matt Hancock said on Wednesday. The new agency, called the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), will be headed up by Jenny Harries, England's deputy chief medical officer, who has been at...

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GameStop tumbles as Reddit darling considers share sale By Reuters

(Reuters) - Shares of Reddit-darling GameStop Corp (NYSE:GME) fell more than 13% before the bell on Wednesday, a day after the videogame retailer said it may raise funds through a share sale. Wedbush analysts downgraded the stock to "underperform" from "neutral" after the quarterly results, saying the short squeeze has boosted the share price to levels that are completely...

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Brazil lawsuit against BHP over 2015 dam failure denied appeal in UK By Reuters

By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - England's Court of Appeal has denied permission for a 200,000-strong Brazilian claimant group to resurrect a 5.0 billion pound ($6.9 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP over a devastating 2015 dam failure. "We are both surprised and disappointed by this decision," said Tom Goodhead, managing partner at law firm PGMBM, which is representing the claimants...

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Britain proposes mandatory climate-related financial disclosures by 2022 By Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain launched a public consultation on Wednesday on proposals to require large companies as soon as 2022 to disclose the financial risks they face from climate change. The business ministry said disclosures should be in line with recommendations from the global Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), set up by the G20 rich countries to coordinate rules. "To...

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Slump in clothes prices causes surprise UK inflation dip By Reuters

By David Milliken and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - British inflation unexpectedly fell last month, reflecting the biggest annual drop in clothing prices since 2009 and cheaper second-hand cars, toys and computer games, though most economists see sharper price rises ahead. The annual rate of consumer price inflation dropped to 0.4% in February...

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