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The monthly jobs report — the final piece of major economic data to land before a consequential, contentious and too-close-to-call election — was clear as

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Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway extended their retreat from stocks in the third quarter, slashing their holdings in Apple and boosting cash to a record

Eurozone inflation rose to 2 per cent in October, meeting the European Central Bank’s target and bolstering the case for a smaller quarter-point rate cut

While the figure for the three months to September is slightly better than the 0.2 per cent rate anticipated by analysts polled by Reuters, the

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