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Silver State joins the banking casualties in the US (30 April 04:30) |
| Silver State, the Nevada-based bank that had John McCain's son on its board
until July, has become the eleventh bank in the United States to fail this
year after losses from souring ho... |
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Santander boss Alfredo Saenz builds monster £75m pension pot (21 March 05:31) |
| THE chief executive of Santander, the Spanish banking giant that has become one of Britain’s biggest lenders, has accumulated a pension pot worth £75m. |
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Monsoon awash with profits (21 March 05:31) |
| MONSOON, the boho chic fashion retailer, has emerged as one of the surprise winners of the recession, delivering an eight-fold rise in profits. |
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Court clue on E-Clear insolvency (21 March 05:31) |
| THE mystery over trading at E-Clear, the card payments group linked to a string of company failures, has deepened after the disclosure that a Canadian tour operator won a High Court judgment... |
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Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis sets up rival to La Senza (21 March 05:31) |
| THEO PAPHITIS, one of the stars of BBC’s Dragons’ Den, is starting a new lingerie chain months after quitting the board of rival La Senza after a bust-up with its private equity owner. H... |
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Lord Mandelson hits out at US protectionism (21 March 05:31) |
| THE Obama administration is showing “dangerous signs” of moving towards protectionism, said Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, adding there was the risk of “a real falling out” ... |
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Rebuilding work gives Eric Daniels breathing space (21 March 05:31) |
| Trading statements that pop out a few weeks after a company’s full-year results rarely contain good news. Normally a chief executive is confessing to some hidden horror that escaped the au... |
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French gatecrash Arriva train bid (21 March 05:31) |
| FRANCE’s state railway group is planning to derail an attempted £1.4 billion takeover bid for Arriva, the British transport company that owns the Cross Country rail franchise. |
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EMI pawns its pop stars in £400m rescue bid (21 March 05:31) |
| EMI is in talks to mortgage its back catalogue of music recordings in a last-ditch attempt to solve its mounting cash crisis. |
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Dubai World wants eight years to pay debts (21 March 05:31) |
| DUBAI WORLD, the troubled Gulf investment fund that owns the QE2 cruise liner and Cirque du Soleil dance troupe, is to ask its creditors for up to eight more years to pay back a $22 billion ... |
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New Look revives float plan (21 March 05:31) |
| NEW LOOK is preparing to resurrect its £1.7 billion stock market flotation just one month after it was controversially pulled. |
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Solution to a thirsty world sea water without the salt (21 March 05:31) |
| MIDDLE East government officials spent last week in Vienna, discussing oil at a meeting of Opec, the producers’ cartel. In Oman, however, another dwindling resource was top of the agenda. |
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BSkyB may put its top channels on Freeview (21 March 05:31) |
| BSkyB will be allowed to sell its pay-TV channels into Freeview homes for the first time under plans set to win approval from the media regulator in the next 10 days. |
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Alex Salmonds bid to rule the waves (21 March 05:31) |
| For the past 13 years, Harald Johansen has been clinging to a dream in his workshop in Hammerfest, Norway, 300 miles inside the Arctic circle. |
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Blue chips scramble to beat 50p tax rate (21 March 05:31) |
| EIGHT of Britain’s biggest companies are paying bonuses early so their high earners can avoid the new 50% rate of tax. |
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Hunt for rogue trader over recycled carbon credits (21 March 05:31) |
| A TINY London trading firm is at the centre of a shadowy chain of international deals involving the carbon market’s first “rogue trader”. |
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MS told to purge board over Sir Stuart Rose row (21 March 05:31) |
| SHAREHOLDERS in Marks & Spencer are calling for a boardroom clear-out after a fresh row over its chairman’s pay. |
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Babcock poised to seal takeover (21 March 05:31) |
| THE engineering group Babcock International is this week expected to clinch a £1.25 billion takeover of rival VT Group. The deal will create a FTSE 100 company with interests in nuclear ene... |
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Conservatives push Alistair Darling on bank tax (21 March 05:31) |
| ALISTAIR DARLING is under pressure to announce a bank tax in his budget this week after the Conservatives said they would punish the City with a new levy. |
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Mike Farley chief executive of Persimmon (21 March 05:31) |
| Sometimes, it’s not what you do, it’s what you don’t do that’s important. |
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Mike Farley chief executive of Persimmon (21 March 05:31) |
| Sometimes, it’s not what you do, it’s what you don’t do that’s important. |
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Do no harm should be Alistair Darlings watchword (21 March 05:31) |
| Doctors have the Hippocratic oath and a version would be useful for chancellors as they shape up for their big day. “First, do no harm” should be Alistair Darling’s watchwords for the ... |
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Its business as usual for Lehman Brothers chiefs (21 March 05:31) |
| IT’S just over a week since Anton Valukas wheeled out his gargantuan report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Seven days isn’t really enough to absorb the weight of the bank examiner... |
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Lord Mandelson hits out at US protectionism (21 March 05:31) |
| THE Obama administration is showing “dangerous signs” of moving towards protectionism, said Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, adding there was the risk of “a real falling out” ... |
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Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis sets up rival to La Senza (21 March 05:31) |
| THEO PAPHITIS, one of the stars of BBC’s Dragons’ Den, is starting a new lingerie chain months after quitting the board of rival La Senza after a bust-up with its private equity owner. H... |
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Solution to a thirsty world sea water without the salt (21 March 05:31) |
| MIDDLE East government officials spent last week in Vienna, discussing oil at a meeting of Opec, the producers’ cartel. In Oman, however, another dwindling resource was top of the agenda. |
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Alex Salmonds bid to rule the waves (21 March 05:31) |
| For the past 13 years, Harald Johansen has been clinging to a dream in his workshop in Hammerfest, Norway, 300 miles inside the Arctic circle. |
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MS told to purge board over Sir Stuart Rose row (21 March 05:31) |
| SHAREHOLDERS in Marks & Spencer are calling for a boardroom clear-out after a fresh row over its chairman’s pay. |
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Hunt for rogue trader over recycled carbon credits (21 March 05:31) |
| A TINY London trading firm is at the centre of a shadowy chain of international deals involving the carbon market’s first “rogue trader”. |
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Mike Farley chief executive of Persimmon (21 March 05:31) |
| Sometimes, it’s not what you do, it’s what you don’t do that’s important. |
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Do no harm should be Alistair Darlings watchword (21 March 05:31) |
| Doctors have the Hippocratic oath and a version would be useful for chancellors as they shape up for their big day. “First, do no harm” should be Alistair Darling’s watchwords for the ... |
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Its business as usual for Lehman Brothers chiefs (21 March 05:31) |
| IT’S just over a week since Anton Valukas wheeled out his gargantuan report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Seven days isn’t really enough to absorb the weight of the bank examiner... |
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Lord Mandelson hits out at US protectionism (21 March 05:31) |
| THE Obama administration is showing “dangerous signs” of moving towards protectionism, said Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, adding there was the risk of “a real falling out” ... |
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Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis sets up rival to La Senza (21 March 05:31) |
| THEO PAPHITIS, one of the stars of BBC’s Dragons’ Den, is starting a new lingerie chain months after quitting the board of rival La Senza after a bust-up with its private equity owner. H... |
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Solution to a thirsty world sea water without the salt (21 March 05:31) |
| MIDDLE East government officials spent last week in Vienna, discussing oil at a meeting of Opec, the producers’ cartel. In Oman, however, another dwindling resource was top of the agenda. |
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Alex Salmonds bid to rule the waves (21 March 05:31) |
| For the past 13 years, Harald Johansen has been clinging to a dream in his workshop in Hammerfest, Norway, 300 miles inside the Arctic circle. |
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MS told to purge board over Sir Stuart Rose row (21 March 05:31) |
| SHAREHOLDERS in Marks & Spencer are calling for a boardroom clear-out after a fresh row over its chairman’s pay. |
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Hunt for rogue trader over recycled carbon credits (21 March 05:31) |
| A TINY London trading firm is at the centre of a shadowy chain of international deals involving the carbon market’s first “rogue trader”. |
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Mike Farley chief executive of Persimmon (21 March 05:31) |
| Sometimes, it’s not what you do, it’s what you don’t do that’s important. |
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Do no harm should be Alistair Darlings watchword (21 March 05:31) |
| Doctors have the Hippocratic oath and a version would be useful for chancellors as they shape up for their big day. “First, do no harm” should be Alistair Darling’s watchwords for the ... |
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Its business as usual for Lehman Brothers chiefs (21 March 05:31) |
| IT’S just over a week since Anton Valukas wheeled out his gargantuan report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Seven days isn’t really enough to absorb the weight of the bank examiner... |
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Lord Mandelson hits out at US protectionism (21 March 05:31) |
| THE Obama administration is showing “dangerous signs” of moving towards protectionism, said Lord Mandelson, the business secretary, adding there was the risk of “a real falling out” ... |
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Dragons Den star Theo Paphitis sets up rival to La Senza (21 March 05:31) |
| THEO PAPHITIS, one of the stars of BBC’s Dragons’ Den, is starting a new lingerie chain months after quitting the board of rival La Senza after a bust-up with its private equity owner. H... |
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Solution to a thirsty world sea water without the salt (21 March 05:31) |
| MIDDLE East government officials spent last week in Vienna, discussing oil at a meeting of Opec, the producers’ cartel. In Oman, however, another dwindling resource was top of the agenda. |
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|
Alex Salmonds bid to rule the waves (21 March 05:31) |
| For the past 13 years, Harald Johansen has been clinging to a dream in his workshop in Hammerfest, Norway, 300 miles inside the Arctic circle. |
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|
MS told to purge board over Sir Stuart Rose row (21 March 05:31) |
| SHAREHOLDERS in Marks & Spencer are calling for a boardroom clear-out after a fresh row over its chairman’s pay. |
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Hunt for rogue trader over recycled carbon credits (21 March 05:31) |
| A TINY London trading firm is at the centre of a shadowy chain of international deals involving the carbon market’s first “rogue trader”. |
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Mike Farley chief executive of Persimmon (21 March 05:31) |
| Sometimes, it’s not what you do, it’s what you don’t do that’s important. |
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Do no harm should be Alistair Darlings watchword (21 March 05:31) |
| Doctors have the Hippocratic oath and a version would be useful for chancellors as they shape up for their big day. “First, do no harm” should be Alistair Darling’s watchwords for the ... |
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Its business as usual for Lehman Brothers chiefs (21 March 05:31) |
| IT’S just over a week since Anton Valukas wheeled out his gargantuan report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Seven days isn’t really enough to absorb the weight of the bank examiner... |
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