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Australia rates at four year high..Australia is raising its benchmark interest rate to its highest level in four years despite signs of a slowdown in the country's economy...The Reserve Bank of Australia lifted interest rates 0.25% to 5.5%, their first upwards move in more than a year. However, shortly after the Bank m...
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US company admits Benin bribery..A US defence and telecommunications company has agreed to pay $28.5m after admitting bribery in the West African state of Benin...The Titan corporation was accused of funnelling more than $2m into the 2001 re-election campaign of President Mathieu Kerekou. At the time, Titan was trying ...
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US insurer Marsh cuts 2,500 jobs..Up to 2,500 jobs are to go at US insurance broker Marsh & McLennan in a shake up following bigger-than-expected losses...The insurer said the cuts were part of a cost-cutting drive, aimed at saving millions of dollars. Marsh posted a $676m (£352m) loss for the last three months of 2004...
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US seeks new $280bn smoker ruling..The US Justice Department is to try to overturn a court ruling that threw out its claim for $280bn (£149bn) in damages from tobacco firms...Earlier this month, a three-judge appeal court panel rejected the claim - filed in 1999 by the administration of Bill Clinton - in a 2-1 decision...
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Budget Aston takes on Porsche..British car maker Aston Martin has gone head-to-head with Porsche's 911 sports cars with the launch of its cheapest model yet...With a price tag under £80,000, the V8 Vantage is tens of thousands of pounds cheaper than existing Aston models. The Vantage is "the most important car in the h...
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Golden rule 'intact' says ex-aide..Chancellor Gordon Brown will meet his golden economic rule "with a margin to spare", according to his former chief economic adviser...Formerly one of Mr Brown's closest Treasury aides, Ed Balls hinted at a Budget giveaway on 16 March. He said he hoped more would be done to build on cu...
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Liberian economy starts to grow..The Liberian economy started to grow in 2004, but "sustained and deep reform efforts" are needed to ensure long term growth, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said...An IMF mission made the comments in a report published following 10 days of talks with the transition government....
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Slowdown hits US factory growth..US industrial production increased for the 21st month in a row in February, but at a slower pace than in January, official figures show...The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) index fell to 55.3 in February, from an adjusted 56.4 in January. Although the index was lower than in Janu...
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Lufthansa flies back to profit..German airline Lufthansa has returned to profit in 2004 after posting huge losses in 2003...In a preliminary report, the airline announced net profits of 400m euros ($527.61m; £274.73m), compared with a loss of 984m euros in 2003. Operating profits were at 380m euros, ten times more than...
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Japanese growth grinds to a halt..Growth in Japan evaporated in the three months to September, sparking renewed concern about an economy not long out of a decade-long trough...Output in the period grew just 0.1%, an annual rate of 0.3%. Exports - the usual engine of recovery - faltered, while domestic demand stayed sub...
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Unilever shake up as profit slips..Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever is to merge its two management boards after reporting "unsatisfactory" earnings for 2004...It blamed the poor results on sluggish decision making, a rise in discounted retailers and a wet European summer. The company also cited difficult tradi...
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France Telecom gets Orange boost..Strong growth in subscriptions to mobile phone network Orange has helped boost profits at owner France Telecom...Orange added more than five million new customers in 2004, leading to a 10% increase in its revenues. Increased take-up of broadband telecoms services also boosted France Te...
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Brussels raps mobile call charges..The European Commission has written to the mobile phone operators Vodafone and T-Mobile to challenge "the high rates" they charge for international roaming...In letters sent to the two companies, the Commission alleged the firms were abusing their dominant market position in the Germa...
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WorldCom director admits lying..The former chief financial officer at US telecoms firm WorldCom has admitted before a New York court that he used to lie to fellow board members...Speaking at the trial of his former boss Bernard Ebbers, Scott Sullivan said he lied to the board to cover up the hole in WorldCom's finances...
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Glaxo aims high after profit fall..GlaxoSmithKline saw its profits fall 9% last year to £6.2bn ($11.5bn), but Europe's biggest drugmaker says a recovery during 2005 is on the way...Cheap copies of its drugs, particularly anti-depressants Paxil and Wellbutrin, and a weak dollar had hit profits, but global sales were up ...
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Japan bank shares up on link talk..Shares of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial (SMFG), and Daiwa Securities jumped amid speculation that two of Japan's biggest financial companies will merge...Financial newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun claimed that the firms will join up next year and already have held discussions with Japanese ...
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Car giant hit by Mercedes slump..A slump in profitability at luxury car maker Mercedes has prompted a big drop in profits at parent DaimlerChrysler...The German-US carmaker saw fourth quarter operating profits fall to 785m euros ($1bn) from 2.4bn euros in 2003. Mercedes-Benz's woes - its profits slid to just 20m euros ...
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Ericsson sees earnings improve..Telecoms equipment supplier Ericsson has posted a rise in fourth quarter profits thanks to clients like Deutsche Telekom upgrade their networks...Operating profit in the three months to 31 December was 9.5bn kronor (£722m; $1.3bn) against 6.3bn kronor last year. Shares tumbled, however, ...
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Bank opts to leave rates on hold..The Bank of England has left interest rates on hold at 4.75% for a sixth month in a row...The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decided to take no action amid mixed signals from the economy. But some economists predict a further rise in the cost of borrowing will come later this y...
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Nigeria to boost cocoa production..The government of Nigeria is hoping to triple cocoa production over the next three years with the launch of an ambitious development programme...Agriculture Minister Adamu Bello said the scheme aimed to boost production from an expected 180,000 tonnes this year to 600,000 tonnes by 20...
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US interest rates increased to 2%..US interest rates are to rise for the fourth time in five months, in a widely anticipated move...The Federal Reserve has raised its key federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to 2% in light of mounting evidence that the US economy is regaining steam. US companies created twi...
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US bank in $515m SEC settlement..Five Bank of America subsidiaries have agreed to pay a total of $515m (£277m) to settle an investigation into fraudulent trading share practices...The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlements, the latest in an industry-wide clean-up of US mutual funds. The SEC als...
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Train strike grips Buenos Aires..A strike on the Buenos Aires underground has caused traffic chaos and large queues at bus stops in the Argentine capital...Tube workers walked out last week demanding a 53% pay rise and in protest against the installation of automatic ticket machines. Metrovias, the private firm which r...
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Bargain calls widen Softbank loss..Japanese communications firm Softbank has widened losses after heavy spending on a new cut-rate phone service...The service, launched in December and dubbed "Otoku" or "bargain", has had almost 900,000 orders, Softbank said. The firm, a market leader in high-speed internet, had an ope...
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WMC profits up amid bid criticism..Australian mining firm WMC Resources has seen a fivefold rise in profits while continuing to be the target of a hostile takeover bid...WMC said it made net profits of 1.33bn Australian dollars ($1bn; £550m) in 2004, up from A$246bn the year before. It is currently arguing against an o...
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Barclays profits hit record level..Barclays, the UK's third-biggest bank, has seen annual pre-tax profits climb to record levels boosted by a sharp rise in business at its investment arm...Profits for the year to 31 December rose 20% to £4.6bn ($8.6bn). Barclays' chief John Varley said the bank had "caught the winds" o...
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Yukos owner sues Russia for $28bn..The majority owner of embattled Russian oil firm Yukos has sued the Russian government for $28.3bn (£15.2bn)...The Kremlin last year seized and sold Yukos' main production arm, Yugansk, to state-run oil group Rosneft for $9.3bn to offset a massive back tax bill. Group Menatep, the Gib...
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Qantas sees profits fly to record..Australian airline Qantas has posted a record fiscal first-half profit thanks to cost-cutting measures...Net profit in the six months ending 31 December rose 28% to A$458.4m ($357.6m; £191m) from a year earlier. Analysts expected a figure closer to A$431m. Qantas shares fell almost 3%...
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Iraq to invite phone licence bids..Iraq is to invite bids for two telephone licences, saying it wants to significantly boost nationwide coverage over the next decade...Bids have been invited from local, Arab and foreign companies, Iraq's Ministry of Communications said. The winner will work in partnership with the Iraq...
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Aviation firms eye booming India..India's defence minister has opened the country's Aero India 2005 air show with an invitation for global aerospace firms to outsource jobs to the nation...Pranab Mukherjee said such companies could take advantage of India's highly skilled workers and low wages. More than 240 civil and ...
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Russian oil merger excludes Yukos..The merger of Russian gas giant Gazprom and oil firm Rosneft is to go ahead, but will not include Yugansk, which was controversially bought last year...The merger, backed by Russian authorities, will allow foreigners to trade in Gazprom shares. Gazprom chief Alexei Miller confirmed Ro...
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Brazil buy boosts Belgium's Inbev..Belgian brewing giant Inbev has seen its profits soar thanks to its acquisition of Brazil's biggest beer firm Ambev last year...Inbev, which makes Stella Artois, said pre-tax profits for 2004 rose 56% to 1.16bn euros ($1.5bn; £800m), and said it expected solid growth in 2005. The perf...
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Salary scandal in Cameroon..Cameroon says widespread corruption in its finance ministry has cost it 1bn CFA francs ($2m; £1m) a month...About 500 officials are accused of either awarding themselves extra money or claiming salaries for "non-existent" workers. Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni, who vowed to tackle corruption ...
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US adds more jobs than expected..The US economy added 337,000 jobs in October - a seven-month high and far more than Wall Street expectations...In a welcome economic boost for newly re-elected President George W Bush, the Labor Department figures come after a slow summer of weak jobs gains. Jobs were created in every s...
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Feta cheese battle reaches court..A row over whether only Greece should be allowed to label its cheese feta has reached the European Court of Justice...The Danish and German governments are challenging a European Commission ruling which said Greece should have sole rights to use the name. The Commission's decision gave...
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Ukraine revisits state sell-offs..Ukraine is preparing what could be a wholesale review of the privatisation of thousands of businesses by the previous administration...The new President, Viktor Yushchenko, has said a "limited" list of companies is being drawn up. But on Wednesday Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said t...
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Bank set to leave rates on hold..UK interest rates are set to remain on hold at 4.75% following the latest meeting of the Bank of England...The Bank's rate-setting committee has put up rates five times in the past year but rates have been on hold since September amid signs of a slowdown. Economic growth slowed in the p...
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Winter freeze keeps oil above $50..Oil prices carried on rising on Wednesday after cold weather on both sides of the North Atlantic pushed US crude prices to four-month highs...Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls took crude oil prices past $50 a barrel on Tuesday for the first time since November. Declines in the...
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German jobless rate at new record..More than 5.2 million Germans were out of work in February, new figures show...The figure of 5.216 million people, or 12.6% of the working-age population, is the highest jobless rate in Europe's biggest economy since the 1930s. The news comes as the head of Germany's panel of governme...
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Ore costs hit global steel firms..Shares in steel firms have dropped worldwide amid concerns that higher iron ore costs will hit profit growth...Shares in Germany's ThyssenKrupp, the UK's Corus and France's Arcleor fell while Japan's Nippon Steel slid after it agreed to pay 72% more for iron ore. China's Baoshan Iron a...
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BMW reveals new models pipeline..BMW is preparing to enter the market for car-style people carriers, the firm's chief has told BBC News...Speaking at a BMW event ahead of the Geneva motor show, Helmut Panke predicted demand for such crossover vehicles would soar in Europe. In contrast, he said, the popularity of van-st...
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Asian banks halt dollar's slide..The dollar regained some lost ground against most major currencies on Wednesday after South Korea and Japan denied they were planning a sell-off...The dollar suffered its biggest one-day fall in four months on Tuesday on fears that Asian central banks were about to lower their reserves ...
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Weak dollar trims Cadbury profits..The world's biggest confectionery firm, Cadbury Schweppes, has reported a modest rise in profits after the weak dollar took a bite out of its results...Underlying pre-tax profits rose 1% to £933m ($1.78bn) in 2004, but would have been 8% higher if currency movements were stripped out....
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Oil prices fall back from highs..Oil prices retreated from four-month highs in early trading on Tuesday after producers' cartel Opec said it was now unlikely to cut production...Following the comments by acting Opec secretary general Adnan Shihab-Eldin, US light crude fell 32 cents to $51.43 a barrel. He said that high...
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Winn-Dixie files for bankruptcy..US supermarket group Winn-Dixie has filed for bankruptcy protection after succumbing to stiff competition in a market dominated by Wal-Mart...Winn-Dixie, once among the most profitable of US grocers, said Chapter 11 protection would enable it to successfully restructure. It said its 920...
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Why few targets are better than many..The economic targets set out at the Lisbon summit of European Union leaders in 2000 were meant to help Europe leapfrog its way past the United States to become the world's leading economy by 2010...But the Lisbon targets are about much more than just economic prestige. For many eco...
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Malaysia lifts Islamic bank limit..Malaysia's central bank is to relax restrictions on foreign ownership to encourage Islamic banking...Banks in Malaysia will now be able to sell up to 49% of their Islamic banking units, while the limit on other kinds of bank remains at 30%. RHB, Malaysia's third-biggest lender, is alr...
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Alfa Romeos 'to get GM engines'..Fiat is to stop making six-cylinder petrol engines for its sporty Alfa Romeo subsidiary, unions at the Italian carmaker have said...The unions claim Fiat is to close the Fiat Powertrain plant at Arese near Milan and instead source six-cylinder engines from General Motors. Fiat has yet t...
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Saab to build Cadillacs in Sweden..General Motors, the world's largest car maker, has confirmed that it will build a new medium-sized Cadillac BLS at its loss-making Saab factory in Sweden...The car, unveiled at the Geneva motor show, is intended to compete in the medium-sized luxury car market. It will not be sold in ...
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Shares hit by MS drug suspension..Shares in Elan and Biogen Idec plunged on Monday as the firms suspended sales of new multiple sclerosis drug Tysabri after a patient's death in the US...On the New York Stock Exchange, shares in Ireland-based Elan lost 70% while US partner Biogen Idec shed 43%. The firms took action af...
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Bank voted 8-1 for no rate change..The decision to keep interest rates on hold at 4.75% earlier this month was passed 8-1 by the Bank of England's rate-setting body, minutes have shown...One member of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) - Paul Tucker - voted to raise rates to 5%. The news surprised some analysts...
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Crude oil prices back above $50..Cold weather across parts of the United States and much of Europe has pushed US crude oil prices above $50 a barrel for the first time in almost three months...Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have increased demand for heating fuel in the US, where stocks are low. Fresh falls in...
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House prices show slight increase..Prices of homes in the UK rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5% in February, says the Nationwide building society...The figure means the annual rate of increase in the UK is down to 10.2%, the lowest rate since June 2001. The annual rate has halved since August last year, as interest rises ...
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Golden rule boost for Chancellor..Chancellor Gordon Brown has been given a £2.1bn boost in his attempts to meet his golden economic rule, which allows him to borrow only for investment...The extra leeway came after the Office for National Statistics said it had been measuring road expenditure data wrongly over the past...
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Macy's owner buys rival for $11bn..US retail giant Federated Department Stores is to buy rival May Department Stores for $11bn (£5.7bn)...The deal will bring together famous stores like Macy's, Bloomingdale's and Marshall Field's, creating the largest department store chain in the US. The combined firm will operate abo...
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Industrial revival hope for Japan..Japanese industry is growing faster than expected, boosting hopes that the country's retreat back into recession is over...Industrial output rose 2.1% - adjusted for the time of year - in January from a month earlier. At the same time, retail sales picked up faster than at any time si...
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Khodorkovsky ally denies charges..A close associate of former Yukos boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky has told a court that fraud charges levelled against him are "false"...Platon Lebedev has been on trial alongside Mr Khodorkovsky since June in a case centring around the privatisation of a fertiliser firm. The pair claim they...
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Qatar and Shell in $6bn gas deal..Shell has signed a $6bn (£3.12bn) deal with the Middle Eastern sheikhdom of Qatar to supply liquid natural gas (LNG) to North America and Europe...The UK-Dutch group will own 30% of the project, with Qatar's state oil firm owning the rest. The agreement is the latest in a string of dea...
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India unveils anti-poverty budget..India is to boost spending on primary schools and health in a budget flagged as a boost for the ordinary citizen...India's defence budget has also been raised 7.8% to 830bn rupees ($19bn). The priority for Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram is to fight poverty and keep the gover...
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GM pays $2bn to evade Fiat buyout..General Motors of the US is to pay Fiat 1.55bn euros ($2bn; £1.1bn) to get out of a deal which could have forced it to buy the Italian car maker outright...Fiat had sold GM a stake in 2000, as part of a partnership agreement. But Fiat's heavy losses have convinced GM - whose own Europ...
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Ex-Boeing director gets jail term..An ex-chief financial officer at Boeing has received a four-month jail sentence and a fine of $250,000 (£131,961) for illegally hiring a top Air Force aide...Michael Sears admitted his guilt in breaking conflict of interest laws by recruiting Darleen Druyun while she still handled mil...
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Verizon 'seals takeover of MCI'..Verizon has won a takeover battle for US phone firm MCI with a bid worth $6.8bn (£3.6bn), reports say...The two firms are expected to seal the deal on Monday morning, according to news agency reports, despite what was thought to be a higher bid from Qwest. The US telecoms market is cons...
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US data sparks inflation worries..Wholesale prices in the US rose at the fastest rate in more than six years in January, according to government data...New figures show the Labor Department producer price index (PPI) rose by 0.3% - in line with forecasts. But core producer prices, which exclude food and energy costs, s...
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Yukos sues four firms for $20bn..Russian oil firm Yukos has sued four companies for their role in last year's forced state auction of its key oil production unit Yuganskneftegas...Yukos is claiming more than $20bn (£11bn) in damages after Yugansk was sold in December to settle back taxes. The four companies named in th...
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Consumer spending lifts US growth..US economic growth accelerated in the third quarter, helped by strong consumer spending, official figures have shown...The economy expanded at an annual rate of 3.7% in the July to September period, the Commerce Department said. The figure marked an increase on the 3.3% growth recorde...
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Crossrail link 'to get go-ahead'..The £10bn Crossrail transport plan, backed by business groups, is to get the go-ahead this month, according to The Mail on Sunday...It says the UK Treasury has allocated £7.5bn ($13.99bn) for the project and that talks with business groups on raising the rest will begin shortly. The mu...
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Hariri killing hits Beirut shares..Shares in Solidere, the Lebanese company founded by assassinated former prime minister Rafik Hariri, fell 15% in renewed trading in Beirut...The real estate firm, which dominates Lebanon's stock exchange, ended the day down at $8.08. Traders said there was some panic selling during Fr...
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Small firms 'hit by rising costs'..Rising fuel and materials costs are hitting confidence among the UK's small manufacturers despite a rise in output, business lobby group the CBI says...A CBI quarterly survey found output had risen by the fastest rate in seven years but many firms were seeing the benefits offset by in...
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Buyers snap up Jet Airways' shares..Investors have snapped up shares in Jet Airways, India's biggest airline, following the launch of its much anticipated initial public offer (IPO)...The IPO for 17.3 million shares was fully sold within 10 minutes of opening, on Friday. Analysts expect Jet to raise at least 16.4bn rup...
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House prices suffer festive fall..UK house prices fell 0.7% in December, according to figures from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister...Nationally, house prices rose at an annual rate of 10.7% in December, less than the 13.7% rise the previous month. The average UK house price fell from £180,126 in November to £17...
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Deutsche Boerse boosts dividend..Deutsche Boerse, the German stock exchange that is trying to buy its London rival, has said it will boost its 2004 dividend payment by 27%...Analysts said that the move is aimed at winning over investors opposed to its bid for the London Stock Exchange. Critics of the takeover have comp...
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Newest EU members underpin growth..The European Union's newest members will bolster Europe's economic growth in 2005, according to a new report...The eight central European states which joined the EU last year will see 4.6% growth, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) said. In contrast, the 12 Euro...
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Brewers' profits lose their fizz..Heineken and Carlsberg, two of the world's largest brewers, have reported falling profits after beer sales in western Europe fell flat...Dutch firm Heineken saw its annual profits drop 33% and warned that earnings in 2005 may also slide. Danish brewer Carlsberg suffered a 3% fall in pr...
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Yangtze Electric's profits double..Yangtze Electric Power, the operator of China's Three Gorges Dam, has said its profits more than doubled in 2004...The firm has benefited from increased demand for electricity at a time when power shortages have hit cities and provinces across the country. As a hydroelectric-power gen...
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French consumer spending rising..French consumers increased their spending by 1.5% in January, a figure which bodes well for the country's economic growth, figures revealed...The National Statistic Institute (INSEE) added that consumer spending in January rose 3.8% on a year-on-year basis. Rising sales of household equ...
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GSK aims to stop Aids profiteers..One of the world's largest manufacturers of HIV/Aids drugs has launched an initiative to combat the smuggling of cheaper pills - supplied to poorer African countries - back into Europe for resale at far higher price...The company, GlaxoSmithKline, is to alter the packaging and change t...
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Optimism remains over UK housing..The UK property market remains robust despite the recent slowdown, according to mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley and housebuilder George Wimpey...B&B said the buy-to-let market - in which the bank is a major player - would continue to grow much faster than the wider mortgage market. ...
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Russia WTO talks 'make progress'..Talks on Russia's proposed membership of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have been "making good progress" say those behind the negotiations...But the chairman of the working party, Ambassador Stefan Johannesson of Iceland, warned that there was "still a lot of work has to be done". ...
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Irish duo could block Man Utd bid..Irishmen JP McManus and John Magnier, who own a 29% stake in Manchester United, will reportedly reject any formal £800m offer for the club...The Sunday Times and The Sunday Telegraph say they will oppose any formal £800m takeover bid from US tycoon Malcom Glazer. Mr Glazer got permiss...
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Dollar drops on reserves concerns..The US dollar has dropped against major currencies on concerns that central banks may cut the amount of dollars they hold in their foreign reserves...Comments by South Korea's central bank at the end of last week have sparked the recent round of dollar declines. South Korea, which has...
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India and Russia in energy talks..India and Russia are to work together in a series of energy deals, part of a pact which could see India invest up to $20bn in oil and gas projects...On the agenda are oil and gas extraction as well as transportation deals, to be led by Russian energy giant Gazprom and India's ONGC. The...
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Weak data buffets French economy..A batch of downbeat government data has cast doubt over the French economy's future prospects...Official figures showed on Friday that unemployment was unchanged at 9.9% last month, while consumer confidence fell unexpectedly in October. At the same time, finance minister Nicolas Sarko...
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Business fears over sluggish EU economy..As European leaders gather in Rome on Friday to sign the new EU constitution, many companies will be focusing on matters much closer to home - namely how to stay in business...Lille is a popular tourist destination for Britons who want a taste of France at the weekend. But how m...
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M&S cuts prices by average of 24%..Marks & Spencer has cut prices in London and the regions by an average of 24%, according to research from a City investment bank...Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein said: "In spite of the snow in the UK, it still feels very early to be cutting prices of spring merchandise." Stuart Rose, ...
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US bank 'loses' customer details..The Bank of America has revealed it has lost computer tapes containing account details of more than one million customers who are US federal employees...Several members of the US Senate are among those affected, who could now be vulnerable to identity theft. Senate sources say the miss...
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Huge rush for Jet Airways shares..Indian airline Jet Airways' initial public offering was oversubscribed 16.2 times, bankers said on Friday...Over 85% of the bids were at the higher end of the price range of 1,050-1,125 rupees ($24-$26). Jet Airways, a low-fare airline, was founded by London-based ex-travel agent Nares...
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Bank payout to Pinochet victims..A US bank has said it will donate more than $8m to victims of former Chilean military ruler Augusto Pinochet's regime under a Madrid court settlement...Riggs Bank will put money in a special fund to be managed by a Madrid-based charity, the Salvador Allende Foundation, which helps abuse...
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Qwest may spark MCI bidding war..US phone company Qwest has said it will table a new offer for MCI after losing out to larger rival Verizon, setting the scene for a possible bidding war...MCI accepted a $6.75bn (£3.6bn) buyout from telecoms giant Verizon on Monday, rejecting a higher offer from Qwest. Qwest chairman Ri...
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Fiat chief takes steering wheel..The chief executive of the Fiat conglomerate has taken day-to-day control of its struggling car business in an effort to turn it around...Sergio Marchionne has replaced Herbert Demel as chief executive of Fiat Auto, with Mr Demel leaving the company. Mr Marchionne becomes the fourth hea...
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Consumers drive French economy..France's economic growth accelerated in the last three months of 2004, driven by consumer spending, a report shows...Gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.8% in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three month period, the statistical office INSEE said. That expansion pushed ann...
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US regulator to rule on pain drug..US food and drug regulators will decide on Friday whether to recommend the sale of painkillers that have been linked to a high risk of heart attack and stroke...The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel will give its verdict after hearing evidence for three days. The paink...
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Yukos bankruptcy 'not US matter'..Russian authorities do not have to abide by any US court decisions taken with regard to troubled oil giant Yukos, a Houston court has been told...Legal expert William Butler said there was no treaty between the US and Russia to recognise the other's legal rulings. That meant Moscow wou...
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Borussia Dortmund near bust..German football club and former European champion Borussia Dortmund has warned it will go bankrupt if rescue talks with creditors fail...The company's shares tumbled after it said it has "entered a life-threatening profitability and financial situation". Borussia Dortmund has posted record ...
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'Post-Christmas lull' in lending..UK mortgage lending showed a "post-Christmas lull" in January, indicating a slowing housing market, lenders have said...Both the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) and Building Society Association (BSA) said lending was down sharply. The CML said gross mortgage lending stood at £17.9bn,...
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UK 'risks breaking golden rule'..The UK government will have to raise taxes or rein in spending if it wants to avoid breaking its "golden rule", a report suggests...The rule states that the government can borrow cash only to invest, and not to finance its spending projects. The National Institute of Economic and Social...
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Worldcom director ends evidence..The former chief financial officer at US telecoms firm WorldCom has finished giving evidence at the trial of his ex-boss Bernie Ebbers...Scott Sullivan admitted to jurors he was willing to commit fraud to meet Wall Street earnings projections. Mr Ebbers is on trial for fraud and conspir...
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Ukraine steel sell-off 'illegal'..The controversial sell-off of a Ukrainian steel mill to a relative of the former president was illegal, a court has ruled...The mill, Krivorizhstal, was sold in June 2004 for $800m (£424m) - well below other offers. President Viktor Yushchenko, elected in December, is planning to revis...
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Cairn shares up on new oil find..Shares in Cairn Energy have jumped 6% after the firm said an Indian oilfield was larger than previously thought...Cairn said drilling to the north-west of its development site in Rajasthan had produced "very strong results". The company also said it now believed the development area wou...
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Georgia plans hidden asset pardon..Georgia is offering a one-off 'tax amnesty' to people who hid their earnings under the regime of former president Eduard Shevardnadze...The country's new president, Mikhail Saakashvili, has said that anyone now willing to disclose their wealth will only have to pay 1% in income tax. T...
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Cuba winds back economic clock..Fidel Castro's decision to ban all cash transactions in US dollars in Cuba has once more turned the spotlight on Cuba's ailing economy...All conversions between the US dollar and Cuba's "convertible" peso will from 8 November be subject to a 10% tax. Cuban citizens, who receive money fro...
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