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Melrose is one stock set to bloom for smart buyers
This mid-cap engineering firm is enjoying strong support from some of Britain's shrewdest small-cap investors.

Taxpayer owned RBS cuts another 3,500 jobs
RBS has announced 3,500 more UK staff are set to lose their jobs but 500 offshore jobs will be created

Dawn Chorus: Wall Street gains on positive economic figures
The Dow Jones closed 0.5% higher, S&P gained 0.9% and Nasdaq advanced 1.1% in response to positive data on initial jobless claims, pending home sales and retailers’ same-store sales.

Friday Papers: tips and comment
US manufacturing utilisation rates have been trending southward.

Friday Papers: ECB rules out double dip - other news
The bank forecast that the eurozone would expand this year and in 2011 much more strongly than previously expected.

Friday Papers: CD&R to buy Univar stake from CVC - bid news and gossip
The US private equity group is buying the stake in a deal valuing the chemicals distribution group at $4.2bn.

Position your portfolio for a rally
Although doom and gloom persists among investors, HSBC’s Philip Poole says risk assets could rally in the fourth quarter as indicators tick up.

Morning Line: Is it just plain wrong to buy bank shares?
The banks are so powerful that they can set their own rules, ignore the regulators and the world's governments, while trampling on their customers - so is it time we stopped buying their shares?

Pressure on the pound after more signs the recovery is slowing
Shares tread water as falling house prices and slowing growth in the construction sector suggest the pace of UK economic growth peaked in the second quarter.

IMF warns indebted countries against ‘quick fixes’
International Monetary Fund says UK among countries with large debts and limited room to manoeuvre.

House price fall picks up pace – Nationwide
House prices dropped for a second month in August as the imbalance in supply and demand that drove prices higher in 2009 continues ‘unwinding’.

Pensions window of opportunity for high earners
Higher earners have no time to lose if they want to take advantage of new rules, say experts.

Darling claims bonus super-tax did not work
The former chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has admitted that the supertax on bankers' bonuses he introduced last year in a bid to tell the City that 'we all live in the same world' was a failure.

Dixons post unimpressive numbers despite World Cup boost
Sales of TVs during the World Cup proved insufficient to allow Dixons owner DSG to beat expectations in its latest numbers.

From boob jobs to Mr Potato Head: Five US stocks to beat the downturn
The US may be set for a protracted period of low growth, but the market continues to throw up opportunities for the bottom-up stockpicker, says Ignis’s Terry Ewing.

Thursday Papers: tips and comment
Candover has sensibly cut its losses but investors in other funds may not be so lucky.

Thursday Papers: Supertax on bankers failed, says Darling - other news
Ex-chancellor admits bonus culture remains as 'imaginative' financiers devised ways to avoid supertax.

Thursday Papers: RPS acquires Boyd Exploration Consultants - bid news and gossip
The Canadian gas and oil consultancy will pay up to C$13.9m in cash for the deal.

Dawn Chorus: Strong manufacturing data triggers Wall Street rally
US equities gained most since July as investors welcomed better-than-expected factory figures from the world's two biggest economies.

I thought I didn't need a will - but I was wrong
Making a will is often not as simple as you might think. A professional will-writer goes through the process with Victoria Bischoff.

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