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On Thursday the Bank of England will decide whether to cut UK interest rates for the second time this year. Financial markets see a 0.25 percentage-point cut — to a bank rate of 4.75 per cent — as the most…

A strong performance from Shell’s gas business bolstered its third-quarter profits and paved the way for the energy giant to hand back a further $3.5 billion to stock market investors through a share buyback. Adjusted earnings at the FTSE 100…