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Portrait of the week

Portrait of the week

24 September 2015

1:00 PM

24 September 2015

1:00 PM

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In a speech at the Shanghai stock exchange, George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced a feasibility study into the trading of Chinese and British shares in both countries. At least half of all British banknotes in circulation are held overseas or used in the black market, a Bank of England report suggested.

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