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Here’s why 2020 was the worst year for the FTSE 100 since the 2008 crash

2020-12-31T15:18:44Z

3 min read

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Hedge funds ride 2020’s crypto boom to rally 156%

2020-12-31T13:46:49Z

3 min read

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Hedge funds overall have struggled to consistently beat returns of equity indexes. Global hedge funds gained 4.49% in November, their best month since 2009, and posted a more than 8% gain in the first 11 months of the year, hedge fund tracking firm Eurekahedge found

The best-read Financial News stories of 2020

2020-12-31T13:34:07Z

6 min read

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Ex-Citigroup and Lehman Brothers fund boss snaps up controlling stake in Burnley football club

2020-12-31T13:31:42Z

2 min read

Burnley FC in action at their Turf Moor stadium

Boris Johnson’s father to apply for French citizenship as Britain exits EU

2020-12-31T12:26:18Z

2 min read

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Stanley Johnson campaigning to remain in the EU in 2016

JPMorgan CEO’s brush with death was so scary bank enacted ‘Jamie got hit by a bus’ plan

2020-12-31T12:23:10Z

3 min read

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Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's chief executive, said his doctors still don’t know what led to his emergency heart operation

UK regulator gives green light for EU swaps trading to avoid Brexit chaos

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Emily Nicolle

2020-12-31T11:00:06Z

2 min read

FCA Brexit Trading Derivatives

British financial firms will be allowed to use platforms based within the bloc if they do not have arrangements in place to trade in other jurisdictions where both the UK and EU have granted equivalence, such as the US

Big Ben will ring out to welcome 2021 as officials warn against gatherings

2020-12-31T10:42:12Z

2 min read

Big Ben has been largely silent for the last three years during a major restoration project, but is permitted to ring its famous bells for momentous occasions such as Remembrance Sunday and New Year’s Eve but will now ring out to herald 2021

Education minister ‘confident’ England will avoid national lockdown under tiers

2020-12-31T09:17:33Z

2 min read

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Firms set to fast-track move away from Libor in 2021

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Nina Trentmann

2020-12-31T08:42:21Z

4 min read

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A banker, economist, and data chief: Gongs for finance figures in New Year Honours list

2020-12-31T08:22:23Z

2 min read

People new years honours

Robert Chote, former chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility, was given a Knights Bachelor for his services to fiscal policy and to the economy in the 2021 New Year honours list.

Goldman Sachs says Covid-battered cities will ‘largely return to normal’ in 2021

2020-12-31T00:01:19Z

2 min read

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Goldman Sachs economists are confident that the American economy will bounce back in 2021, accelerating in Q2, once mass immunisation is under way