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European leaders are set to announce a long-term deal that would see the EU budget cut, in real terms, for the first time since the European Union was created.

IMPROVED ECONOMIC DATA WILL DRAW IN INVESTORS

Strong inflows into Aberdeen Asset Management's emerging market debt range have helped drive a 3% rise in the group's AUM in the three months to 31 December 2012.

Invesco Perpetual global equity income managers Paul Boyne (pictured) and Doug McGraw have left the group to take up new roles at a North American firm.

Fidelity's Anthony Bolton has predicted a turnaround in China next year as the economic cycle shifts in the country's favour.

Boring, predictable and unachievable - just some of the views about today's Autumn Statement. For these and the rest, here's our round-up of the reaction to the tax and growth figures.

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Hopes were rising in Brussels that an unlikely deal with the UK over the EU's long-term budget was taking shape, although the chief negotiator was trying to resolve a deluge of last-minute complaints from other countries on the eve of what could be a...

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