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Brussels threatens to suspend Belgrade’s visa-free regime if passport rules create ‘security risk’
...The FCA, Halifax, Hargreaves Lansdown and AJ Bell all declined to comment....
...The BoE’s top officials also sounded alarm bells about other aspects of the government’s sweeping plan to turbocharge the City of London’s growth, warning that some of the changes could jeopardise financial...
...“In this context investors might have wanted to see an external candidate come in and shake things up,” added Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell....
...Despite sounding alarm bells about private markets for months, the BoE’s understanding of the financial stability implications of a private equity slowdown is less comprehensive than that of the risks from...
...“The co-CEO structure is always a difficult one to maintain as it presents the risk of a power struggle,” said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell....
Fantasy game retailer aims to recruit new audiences to franchise with film and TV series
...the weakness in general merchandise — Argos sales were down 4.2 per cent in the six weeks to January 6 — raised questions over whether it had been neglected, said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell...
...Russ Mould at AJ Bell said JD Sports would likely benefit from any interest rate cuts from the Bank of England but would also have to find innovative ways to shift more stock without sacrificing too much...
...The shares of AJ Bell and Hargreaves Lansdown, two of the UK’s largest investment platforms that have reported significant revenue boosts from keeping some of the interest earned on client cash, were hit...
...Laura Trott, Treasury minister, has confirmed that her boss Jeremy Hunt will cut personal taxes in his Autumn Statement on Wednesday, claiming the outlook for the economy had “completely changed”....
...Private credit and leveraged lending markets remain vulnerable to “sharp revaluations”, the Bank of England warned on Wednesday, in its latest attempt to sound alarm bells about risks building up in non-bank...
...Reporting by Martha Muir, Joshua Oliver, Emma Agyemang, Laura Hughes, Rafe Uddin, Sally Hickey and John Aglionby...
...AJ Bell investment director Russ Mould said: “Traditionally the wealthy clientele which shop for expensive clothes and accessories are seen as being insulated from the impact of higher borrowing costs and...
...Early indicators began about four years ago when savvy brands sought to “de-risk operations” in China by securing a back-up supplier elsewhere, says Laura Morroll, director of operational restructuring,...
...The two Austrian organisations — the Benko Family Foundation, controlled by his mother, and the Laura Foundation, named after his daughter — had been assumed to look after most of Benko’s personal wealth...
...They wander open-mouthed, looking up, as bells and later organ music are heard — a nod, presumably, to the church that hosted the premiere in Wuppertal....
...“It’s one of the little-known quirks in the tax system, and until recently it hadn’t been a huge problem because interest rates have been so low,” said AJ Bell’s head of personal finance Laura Suter....
...In recent months, as the dramatic rise in global interest rates has introduced new risks to a sector amped up on a decade of cheap debt, warning bells have reached a peak....
...According to AJ Bell’s Laura Suter, investors and savers could respond by banking gains up to their allowance and do a Bed and Isa — when investments held outside an Isa are sold and then rebought within...
...feed the prejudice that private equity firms squeeze costs and investment too hard when they own a business and then leave the next owners to pick up the tab,” said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell...
...“The British public is in a lottery depending on who they bank with as to how any fraud will be dealt with — which shouldn’t be the case,” said Laura Suter, head of personal finance at AJ Bell....
...reference to it being ‘mindful of the macroeconomic and geopolitical environment’, appear to have been the trigger for some investors to take profits in the stock,” said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell...
...Reporting by Emma Agyemang, Rafe Uddin, Martha Muir, Josephine Cumbo, Laura Hughes, Joshua Oliver and Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu...
...Laura Suter, personal finance analyst at AJ Bell, which obtained the July HMRC figures through a Freedom of Information request, said: “Tax on savings has become quite a cash cow for the government.”...
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