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Footsie nears bear market territory
The FTSE 100 index closed on Friday at its lowest level since November 2005 as it threatened to join counterparts in Asia, the US and Europe in bear market territory
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Sales fall accelerates at John Lewis
John Lewis brought the curtain down on a week of gloom for Britain's shopkeepers with its worst sales performance this year
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'Anti-China' groups threaten Olympics
A top Beijing security official has warned that hostile movements are intensifying their efforts to sabotage next month's games
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TPG attacked for abandoning B&B
The City rounded on US private equity firm TPG Capital on Friday for abandoning Bradford & Bingley, whose shares fell 18%, and forcing its shareholders to fund a third attempt to recapitalise the struggling mortgage lender
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Champions of Thunder Horse have little to cheer
Engineering problems have thrown cold water on celebrations for the first oil produced from the troubled BP oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico
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Barroso at odds with Sarkozy on ECB
Europe's divisions over inflation were highlighted on Friday when José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, defended the European Central Bank against political critics
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Forestry funds leave others in the shade
Money may not grow on trees but investors who placed funds in British forests last year have seen returns far outstrip those from any of the traditional asset classes
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UBS faces more US credit writedowns
The Swiss bank confirmed it faced more heavy writedowns on its US credits, meaning that it would break even or make a loss in the second quarter
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Origin rejects A$13.8bn BG bid
Origin Energy has formally rejected a hostile A$13.8bn (US$13.3bn) takeover bid from BG Group amid widespread expectations that the UK gas producer will be forced to raise its offer if it wants to secure the Australian group's huge coal-bed methane reserves
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UK aid doubles for border region of Pakistan
Britain is increasing financial assistance to £480m by 2011 to channel more cash into areas on the Afghan border that are plagued by Islamist militancy
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BSkyB considers bid for Spain's Digital+
British Sky Broadcasting, the UK satellite group, is considering making a bid of more than €2.5bn for Digital+, the Spanish pay-TV platform, which would mark its first foray outside the UK and Ireland since an ill-fated move into Germany in 2000
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Google told to hand over YouTube users' data
Google has run into a fresh storm over online privacy after a US judge ordered YouTube, its popular online video site, to hand over records detailing the viewing habits of its millions of users.
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