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Happy new year. Couple of questions. Why
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am I in a coat? Because it's freezing uh
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inside my office. And why have I not got
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my sexy city skyline backdrop? Because
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we are moving office and we are in
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temporary digs. Um so you join me in my
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little temporary cell here. Um happy new
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year. First print edition back on the
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streets. Uh today four stories on the
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front page of City Am. Three of which
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are related. Happy new fear. Couldn't
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resist. Sorry. I did want a more
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optimistic front page story, but the
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news is the news. Um, this is Deote's
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latest survey of CFOs asking them what
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keeps them up at night. The answer, war,
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uh, global instability, uh, etc., etc.
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This is quite an interesting breakdown
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of of what CFOs are worried about this
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year. Above that, of course, like every
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other paper in the world, we have the
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picture of Nicholas Maduro, uh, being
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taken to court in New York. For all the
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fallout, I do enjoy seeing communist
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dictators in handcuffs. Um bottom of the
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page is a story we've looked into um
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which is quite interesting to say the
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least. The Bank of England has about a
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billion pounds worth of Venezuelan gold
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in its vaults. Nicholas Maduro um has
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been asking for it back for a long time
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and the UK and the Bank of England have
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always said no because we don't
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recognize your government. What happens
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now if America recognizes the
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government? Does Britain do they get the
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gold? We will keep digging into that.
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Finally, a story about the number of uh
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high-end property sales in London last
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year that were as a direct result of
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people who had non-DOM status and had it
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taken away from them selling up and
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leaving. Couple of other things just to
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point out on the inside pages, our
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resident AI guru Dr. Lewis Louu has a
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fantastic comment piece about how chat
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GPT has made him doubt his own reality.
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Quite a philosophical one. Further on in
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the inside pages, you'll find Alan Carr
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talking about wine. So there you go.
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Quite a spread. All of this and more of
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course on city online.com
