Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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The 'brink of recession'; echoes of Woodford; and 'what was missed' in state pension changes  - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

Britain ‘on the brink of a recession' as number of job adverts takes its biggest quarterly fall in nine years Perhaps in a bid to keep the nation's feet firmly on the floor after a glorious weekend of British sport, this Mail on Sunday article warns of building fears that Britain may be heading towards its first recession since the financial crisis, with new job figures suggesting the sharpest slowdown in almost a decade. Job vacancies fell by 16,467 (2.3%) on recruitment website Reed in the second quarter - the biggest three-month fall since 2010 - and the paper argues such data can b...

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