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<description><![CDATA[Government officials said Tuesday that the country's three largest credit raters failed in their reviews of subprime mortgage-backed securities.
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<description><![CDATA[Gas prices were unchanged overnight, capping a run of eight straight days of record highs, a survey by auto club AAA showed Tuesday.
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<description><![CDATA[The outlook for the nation's battered labor market continues to worsen, according to the latest reading from a leading business research organization.
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<description><![CDATA[July 29
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<description><![CDATA[July 21
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Shares in Bradford &amp; Bingley (B&amp;B), the struggling bank, plunged 
nearly 20 per cent today as London's leading stocks lurched into a bear 
market on escalating fears that the UK is careering towards a recession.	
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damaging credit crunch &#34;continue to prevail&#34;.	
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The pay of BBC bosses has leapt by 17 per cent while they have presided over a 
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Paul Myners, the former Marks &amp; Spencer chairman, has jumped to the 
defence of his close friend Sir Stuart Rose and said that there was nobody 
better to revive the retailer, despite its present problems.	
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as it attempts to bolster itself against the global downturn and rising 
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InBev&#8217;s campaign to buy Anheuser&#45;Busch (AB) gathered pace yesterday after a 
senior member of the Busch family threw his weight behind the Belgian 
brewer&#8217;s $47 billion (&#36;&#163;23.8 billion) bid for the Budweiser maker while 
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Man Group, the world's biggest hedge fund manager, has built on its green 
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Europe's chief financial regulator will tell its finance ministers today that 
he intends to table legislation in the autumn to regulate the activities of 
credit&#45;rating agencies. The move by Charlie McCreevy, the European Internal 
Markets Commissioner, comes as Alistair Darling is expected to press for 
Brussels to begin a more wide&#45;ranging review of the role of ratings agencies 
in Europe's broader system of financial regulation.	
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Food shortages and the need to double African production may dominate the G8 
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yesterday, the leaders of the world&#8217;s richest nations, joined by several 
African leaders, ate course after course of fine food.	
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Relations between Britain and Russia remained in the deep freeze last night 
after Gordon Brown appeared to have made little headway in his first meeting 
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Almost four years ago to the day, Sheila Frost summed up the feelings of the 
&#8220;grey army&#8221; attending Marks &amp; Spencer's annual shareholders' 
meeting as Philip Green circled the retailer with a &#163;9 billion takeover 
offer. Ms Frost, a pensioner from Enfield, delivered a withering verdict on 
the BhS billionaire. &#8220;He's just a barrow boy. He's not the sort of man we 
need at M&amp;S.&#8221;	
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Those who do not study history, it is said, are doomed to repeat it. Nobody 
could accuse Ben Bernanke of being insufficiently historically minded, but 
is it possible that the world's most powerful central banker learnt the 
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More news of doom and gloom in the financial services sector has failed to 
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Economics	
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British shares narrowly escaped closing in bear market territory last week as 
one of the City&#8217;s highest&#45;profile fund managers warned the market could 
halve in value over the next two to three years.	
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Life in a consumer society is life with stacks of stuff, from books to pianos, 
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