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King valued at $8bn as jitters lead to shares being priced at midpoint

Loeb files suit over Sotheby’s poison pill

Measure stopping activists buying more than 10% stake in dispute

Santander UK faces £12.5m FCA fine

Mystery shopping exercise uncovered failings customer advice

Stocks rally as Ukraine worries ease

Russian assets firmer after recent heavy losses

Banks pay out $100bn in US fines

Settlements since crisis reflect hardening of political attitudes

UK government to sell fifth of Lloyds stake

Move to raise £4.2bn for taxpayer and take UKFI’s holding to less than 25%

Moscow’s move shows weakness, says Obama

US president describes Russia as a ‘regional power’

Race to find MH370 black box recorders

Search area narrows but debris recovery task remains huge

Bundesbank hawk signals backing for QE

Weidmann says sovereign bond-buying by ECB is not ‘out of the question’

Hester revisits pay pressure at RSA

Investors concerned by package that could entitle chief to £5.3m

Defence lawyers boycott Egypt mass trial

Death sentences in earlier case provoke outrage

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The centenary of the first world war has not gone unnoticed in India, writes Victor Mallet

Cameron’s IHT pledge is flawed

Inheritance tax affects far fewer estates than people think

Asaph (Ace) Fipke of Nerd Corps in his Vancouver office.
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Supreme leader of the neo-nerds

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