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UK enters recession as economy shrinks 1.5% [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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The British economy was officially declared to be in recession today as Gordon Brown admitted he had failed to foresee the financial crisis
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Britain avoids credit rating humiliation [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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The influential Moody's agency said today it did not think it would be downgrading its guidance on the UK's credit rating
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Stock market report: Friday latest [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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11.15:Wolseley and a gaggle of other heavyweight companies were hit hard by suggestions they will turn to the markets for fresh money
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Treasury 'hiding' true bailout cost, say MPs [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Chancellor Alistair Darling should come clean over the true cost to the taxpayer of the Government's multi-billion-pound bank bail-out schemes, MPs said today
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Middle classes join home counties dole queue [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Dole queues have doubled in a year in 12 commuter areas as the recession bites in the South-east
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Quarter of final salary schemes to close [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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One in four gold-plated pension schemes will close their doors to existing workers in the next five years, a report has revealed
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Tory donors profited on Barclays fall [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Partners at a hedge fund which made about £12m betting on a fall in the Barclays share price have donated more than £300,000 to the Conservatives
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Fear bailout lets banks off too easily [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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The Government came under increased pressure over its bank bail out as it emerged Britain could let banks off more lightly than the White House did with Wall Street firms
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CBI warns of 'even darker' days ahead [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Production lines will fall silent and tens of thousands of jobs will be lost as manufacturing enters a sustained slump, according to the CBI
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Morrisons beats rivals with 8.2% sales jump [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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WM Morrison has emerging as the best performing supermarket chain over Christmas thanks to soaring sales of organic and value produce
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Cameron: Money 'could run out very soon' [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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David Cameron yesterday warned Britain faces a real risk of needing a humiliating 1970s-style bail-out from the International Monetary Fund
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Train firms 'facing financial difficulties' [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Some of Britain's rail firms are facing financial difficulties because of the economic downturn, a senior civil servant has warned
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British Gas price cuts 'still not enough' [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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British Gas slashed its bills by 10% yesterday, but it was not enough to stop calls for an inquiry into 'painful' energy prices
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Home repossessions soar 92% in a year [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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The number of people who lost their homes nearly doubled during the third quarter of last year, the City watchdog said today
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Microsoft slashes 5,000 jobs worldwide [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Microsoft has finally outlined the vast scale of its redundancy programme as it declared 5,000 jobs would go worldwide
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Accounts fiction that landed us in it [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Cuts that ignite deflation fear [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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The era of deflation could soon be upon us. British Gas has led the way in bringing down utility bills, with a 10% cut in gas prices
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The scaremongers selling us short [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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The trouble with bosses today [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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Midas share tips: Cadbury and Young's [01/23/2009 01:17 PM]
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