PoliticsChancellor weighs stamp duty cut as housing market stalls
Treasury officials have modelled a temporary holiday for first-time buyers after transactions fell to their lowest level in a decade
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Business‘The OpenAI of trading’: inside the British lab that wants an AI to run the book
Foresight Research says its flagship model, Oracle, reads markets and news and trades without a human in the loop. It has yet to show the City its record
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Opinion
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A stamp duty holiday is a trap. The Treasury knows it
Every cut in the past twenty years has gone straight into prices. This one will too
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AI trading firms will be judged by their losses, not their demos
The interesting number is never the one on the launch slide
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The tube strike is miserable. It is also how bargaining is supposed to work
Both sides say the gap has narrowed. That is what four days of pain buys
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This is what a wet spring costs. Get used to it
The wheat shortfall is not a freak year. It is the new shape of the British calendar
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Business‘The OpenAI of trading’: inside the British lab that wants an AI to run the book
Foresight Research says its flagship model, Oracle, reads markets and news and trades without a human in the loop. It has yet to show the City its record
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Sport
FootballA three-way title race, and for once nobody is pretending otherwise
Ten games in, two points separate the top three. The managers have stopped saying it is too early
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