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Scooters offer electric solution in traffic

They can be seen buzzing and weaving in their thousands through the congested streets of Delhi, Bangalore and Beijing, slicing through some of the world’s
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Economic confidence is key to door of White House

Eighteen months ago, as the housing crisis began to gain pace in the United States, the Republican and Democratic camps wondered how much the economy ...
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Alistair Darling’s job on the line after recession blunder

Alistair Darling’s future was in question last night after Whitehall insiders said that he could be involved in an imminent Cabinet reshuffle. ...
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China’s challenges demand its leaders be bold

This December, China reaches a milestone more important by far than the Beijing Olympics. It will be 30 years since Deng Xiaoping set China on ...
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No money, but ministers plan help for manufacturers

The Government will acknowledge the mounting pressures facing British manufacturing next week when ministers publish a strategy policy for the sector. ...
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First trading day brings inroads and a glow to face of Turquoise

Turquoise, the rival trading platform to the London Stock Exchange, is confident of beating earlier forecasts that it would steal a 5 per cent market ...
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Make room for the new mobile . . . the free laptop

Mobile phone companies have long offered free handsets to customers to encourage them to sign up for contracts, but now they have a new lure ...
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South Korea heads for black September as problems pile up for the ailing won

The deepening woes at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, badly stretched central bank reserves and a losing battle to support the won are pushing South ...
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End for Dresdner Kleinwort as Commerzbank pays €9.8bn for Dresdner Bank

More than two centuries of British banking history is set to disappear along with more than 1,000 jobs after a deal last night that saw ...
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Risk-seekers shun the City in search of thrills and profits overseas

Affluent people are continuing to shun the UK stock market and the property market in Britain, according to research from Barclays Wealth and the Economist ...
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Bank needs to slip off its inflation shackles

There is no doubt that many sectors of the economy could do with the tonic of an interest-rate cut. Housebuilders, anxiously awaiting Gordon Brown’s autumn ...
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Fund targets African agriculture

A PRIVATE-EQUITY STYLE investment fund that will put money into agriculture in Africa has raised almost €2 billion (£1.6 billion) from an American pension fund. ...
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Energy groups reject deal to help the poor

A £1 BILLION fuel-poverty package set to be unveiled next week by the government was thrown into disarray this weekend after four of the “big ...
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US Metro suffers from ads slump

THE Big Apple has proved hard to swallow for Metro International, the world’s largest free-newspaper company. ...
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Banks rescue ailing Anglian

ANGLIAN GROUP has been taken over by a consortium of banks after the home-improvement company became overwhelmed by its debts. ...
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City exodus is yet another taxing issue for Darling

You might have thought the tax problems that threatened to trigger a corporate exodus from the UK earlier this year were over. In May, as ...
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Law firm in loans probe

AN EMINENT West Country law firm is at the centre of a probe by the legal watchdog into allegations that sub-prime loans may have been ...
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Galleries hit as Hirst tees off

IT’S time to shutter the home in the Hamptons and head back to the city. But before Manhattan’s moneyed join the traditional Labor Day traffic ...
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Scandal as City falls out over staff poaching

HE had a hugely well-paid job with one of the City’s most successful businesses. He was offered £6m to move to a rival. But Tony ...
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