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Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs and shared its financial results for the third quarter.

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Barclays plans to cut 5,000 jobs. Income rose 1.5%, but pretax profit missed estimates by 4%.

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The planned cuts could lower costs, but Barclays gave no estimate of the savings. Higher income and reaffirmed targets support the outlook. The pretax profit miss and smaller-than-expected buyback pull the other way, so the report does not clearly point in one direction.

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