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Sunday, 20 July 2008
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Man's best friend frozen out as crunch bites
Thousands of dogs and cats face a bleak future in Britain because their owners are being forced to rent homes due to a housing downturn and landlords will not accept pets, a report showed on Wednesday.
16 Jul 2008 |
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Restaurants feel mid-market pinch
In a slowdown, economists say to expect the squeeze in the market's middle: for Britain's recently fast-growing restaurants, it's starting with lunch.
14 Jul 2008 |
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Persimmon confirms 1,100 job losses, says no land writedowns
Housebuilder Persimmon said on Tuesday that the first six months of the year had been "the most challenging" in its recent history. The company said that the mortgage market had continued to decline since its last trading update on 24 April and that as a result its half year results reflected the "more difficult market".
08 Jul 2008 |
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European banks set for big writedowns-analysts
UBS and other European banks are set to unveil billions more euros in writedowns on assets hit by the U.S. subprime crisis and credit crunch, although second quarter losses should be less than the previous quarter, analysts said.
08 Jul 2008 |
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China targets Mongolians in crackdown
In China's pre-Olympics crackdown on dissent two communities have received considerable global attention - the Tibetans and the Muslim Uighurs of Xinjiang.
08 Jul 2008 |
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Housing slowdown starts to bite economy hard
Construction activity fell at its sharpest pace in at least 11 years in June, a survey showed on Wednesday, in one of the clearest signs yet of how falling house prices are hitting the wider economy.
02 Jul 2008 |
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M&S says downturn to last longer
Marks and Spencer issued a shock profit warning on Wednesday and said a consumer downturn was likely to be deeper, and last longer, than previously expected, hammering its shares.
02 Jul 2008 |
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U.S.-led force helicopter shot down in Afghanistan
A helicopter belonging to U.S.-led coalition troops was shot down by small-arms fire south of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, but there were no serious injuries to the people on board, the U.S. military said.
02 Jul 2008 |
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Citigroup says Barclays may need 9 bln pounds more
Barclays may need to raise a further 9 billion pounds in capital, according to analysts at Citigroup, who also said the bank could take further significant write-downs as credit market conditions continue to deteriorate.
27 Jun 2008 |
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Sony to start US movie service for PS3
Sony says it will start a movie download service for its PlayStation 3 home console this summer in the U.S. Kazuo Hirai, who heads Sony Corp.'s video game unit, said Thursday
27 Jun 2008 |
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