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Marlborough's Giles Hargreave has reversed his notoriously bearish stance on equity markets for the first time since 2008, telling investors now is the time to be fully invested.

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British taxpayers have wasted £88.6bn in tax relief over the last decade, and will waste a further £12.6bn in 2012 alone, a new report suggests.

Market participants are expecting interest rates in the UK to remain on hold until late 2014, according to Bank of England policymakers.

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Developed economies face a minimum of two further recessions before a recovery pushes equities into bull market territory, according to SocGen's Albert Edwards.