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What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Overheating markets, saving for children and Bitcoin as a Christmas present - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Financial markets could be overheating , warns central bank body A warning from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) that investors are ignoring warning signs financial markets could be overheating is highlighted in this Guardian article. It notes the ‘central bankers' central bank' has drawn comparisons between the current situation and the period before the financial crisis when investors sought high returns and borrowed heavily to invest in risky assets, despite moves by central banks to tighten access to credit. Attempts so far by the Bank of England and the US's Federal...

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