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New investments in 2014-15 reach nine-year high, says AIC

When the movie you directed opens to a $384 million worldwide weekend, Hollywood brings its choicest projects to the table, and it looks like that's just what's happening with James Wan. It has been one week since "Furious 7" drove full throttle through the box office, and now Warner Bros. wants to bring Wan's magic touch to their DC universe. THR reports that the filmmaker is the frontrunner to helm the Jason Momoa-starring "Aquaman." There have been conversations but no offer, and this is far from a done deal. Читать дальше...

English farmland values reach record highs, almost trebling since 2005

*Sighs*

While visiting an Apple store in California on Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNBC that Apple Watch orders have been "great."

Deal put together with a speed that is unusual in the world of oil mergers and acquisitions

The China stock bubble is getting more and more bonkers

General Electric plans to sell the bulk of its real estate portfolio to Blackstone Group and Wells Fargo.

But the study found that there are more people who have never taken illegal substances before sex than those who have.

'I don't want to see a white man.'

What will legal marijuana look like in the years ahead? Bruce Barcott, author of Weed the People, offers his assessment.

A nasty surprise awaits some Obamacare customers: A bigger-than-expected tax bill.

They were able to raise the alarm using a mobile phone.

The United Nations' $52 billion pension fund is getting close to investing in hedge funds for the first time.

The financially minded boss has pounced on a long-coveted prize

They're the old kids' savings schemes that Labour set up, aren't they?

Takeovers in the drinks industry have provided some celebratory toasts for the No Pain, No Gain portfolio. It reaped rich rewards from such deals as the swallowing of Allied Domecq and Scottish & Newcastle, as well as smaller fry – Burtonwood, Capital Pub Co, Merrydown and the soon-to-disappear Spirit Pub Co.

It has not been a particularly good few days for Tesco. The other day the mighty brontosaurus of beans, bread and bog roll was forced to cough up almost £9m after it about-faced on opening a new store in Somerset.

With the summer holiday season fast approaching now's a good time to start thinking about the best value plastic to take with you abroad.

Q. I booked flights to the Isle of Man and back with Flybe in June last year for work, but the job was cancelled so there was no point in going. The ticket said no refunds, but I am sure I read somewhere that it is possible to get a refund on the tax element of the ticket. Is this true? And if so, how would I go about doing it?

With numerous stock markets reaching new highs, many financial commentators share a common belief: global economies are on the road to recovery. Against this backdrop they expect that interest rates will soon begin to normalise.

When Comparethemarket.com launched its Meerkat Movies earlier this month – offering a year's cheap films – it pointed out that you could spend as little as £25 and still get the deal. Now users at the money-saving website HotUKdeals.com have worked out that a spend of just a couple of quid can secure access to the offer.

Regular readers will recall the tale of woe of Michael Williams, who was advised to take out a pension mortgage in 1988 and has regretted it ever since. He has just been forced to put his family home in Maidstone, Kent, on the market after being let down by a series of advisers and regulators.

This week marks the first few days of the pensions revolution that has, in theory, allowed people aged 55 and older to do what they like with their retirement savings. The big pension firms have reported high demand from customers following the launch of pension freedoms on Monday. Standard Life, for instance, said: "We have received an unprecedented level of customer contact."

Private sector employees who are still members of final salary or other "defined benefit" pension schemes might count themselves lucky to be in such attractive retirement arrangements – but they could well find that the terms they receive are downgraded in a year's time.