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Dire growth figures hit London shares amid fears for emerging markets [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Shares plunged dramatically today as official figures showed the UK economy is shrinking faster than thought and emerging markets were hit by credit crunch fears
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Pound crashes to a rate of only $1.54 [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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The pound crashed well below $1.60 today for the first time in five years as Britain heads for recession
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Market report: Friday latest [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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12.00:The collateral damage to shares caused by the banking crisis has been laid bare for stock-market investors by Cazenove in its latest UK strategy briefing
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Shock as economy shrinks 0.5% [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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The prospects for a UK recession loomed large after official figures revealed the economy shrunk by 0.5% - the worst performance since 1990
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Pension victory for ½m women after U-turn [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hundreds of thousands of women will win the right to a full state pension after a government change allowing them to top-up National Insurance payments
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Opec slashes output to halt oil price falls [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Oil cartel Opec agreed today to cut production in a move that is likely to halt the recent slide in UK petrol prices.
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Crunch sends emerging markets into meltdown [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Panicking investors fled emerging markets ranging from Russia and Belarus to the Ukraine, Argentina and Turkey as the credit crunch engulfs the world
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'Downturn could be the worst in 50 years' [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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A former Bank of England official gives a pessimistic prognosis as figures are expected to show the economy has shrunk for the first time in 16 years
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Slimmed-down Royal Mail posts £177m profit [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Profits at the Royal Mail have more than doubled amid deep cuts in services and 2,500 post office closures
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Candy bros to sell Chelsea barracks stake [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy have been in negotiations over the sale of their stake in the £1bn Chelsea Barracks, the Evening Standard can reveal
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£125bn black hole: Public borrowing will rocket as tax receipts plunge [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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A deep and painful recession will cost the Government £125bn in lost tax receipts and blow a massive hole in the already creaking public finances
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Rock staff get £50m despite bonus pledge [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Workers at the failed bank Northern Rock will scoop bonuses worth up to £50m over the next three years
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Property website cuts staff as sales slump [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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The crisis facing estate agents deepened today when the country's leading property website axed more than a fifth of its workforce
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600 jobs axed at Goldman Sachs [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs is sacking 10% of its UK headquarters' workforce, in one of the largest City job culls since the start of the crunch
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Barnsley BS to merge with Yorkshire [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Yorkshire and Barnsley building societies have announced they are to merge, but there are no plans to give members a cash windfall
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Woe on high seas as well as High Street [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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While there is nothing but gloom on the High Street it could be worse for the retailers - they could be trying to sell satnav for the world's smartest yachts
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With-profits investors kicked again [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Why Asia buy would be Pru coup [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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Five years ago, AIG was worth more than the combined value of the eight largest insurers. Today, the business is on the block, only just surviving by way of an $80bn bailout
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Shameless spin from banks' sinless wonders [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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The dollar returns to sender [10/24/2008 01:17 PM]
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When the crunch first became a reality, many said that even if Western democracies fell into recession, the world would be saved by the robustness of emerging market
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