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Growth in euro zone business activity surged in February to its highest level in almost six years, according to the latest survey of the services and manufacturing sectors by IHS Markit.

Details from the January 2017 UK public sector finances data report 21 February 2017
– Ex-banks -9.387bn vs -13.800bn exp. Prior 6.858bn. Revised to 4.674bn
– PSNCR -26.446bn vs 36.294bn prior
There’s been some messing about with the numbers relating to new methodology on corp taxes. Those tax revenues are 4.2bn under the new method and would have been 10.1bn via the old method. Don’t ask me what they’re doing.

A CIA analyst at the agency since 2006 has quit his job, citing an inability to serve President Trump’s administration.

BOE governor Carney and colleagues will testify to the TSC AT 10.00 GMT
Today’s Treasury Select Committee Hearing looks at the February Inflation Report and fetaures Mark Carney, Andy Haldane, Gertjan Vlieghe and Ian McCafferty

A year ago, the future of short-term, small-dollar loans in the U.S. — better known colloquially as payday loans — was rather grim. The CFPB was a few weeks away from releasing new draft regulations, and the money was on regs that would by and large neuter the industry.

When the draft rules were released in early June 2016 — all 1,400 pages of them — that concern became a certainty.

The new regulations, despite all the verbiage, can be summarized into four big changes for short-term lenders nationwide:

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