Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Here's our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

The Budget 2017: seven things we already know will happen  With little information leaked ahead of the final Spring Budget proper this Wednesday, few are now expecting much drama from the Chancellor of the Exchequer - with this Guardian article arguing he is instead more likely to focus on ensuring the UK's cash reserves are topped up "to resuscitate the economy if it tanks post-Brexit". Indeed, appearing on ITV's Peston on Sunday programme, Chancellor Philip Hammond appeared to confirm such a view, arguing the country's need for economic "resilience" as the country pushes further alon...

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