World markets
| Shanghai | 2,302.40 | -2.71 (-0.12%) |
| S&P 500 | 1,655.35 | -13.81 (-0.83%) |
| Nikkei 225 | 15,627.26 | 0.00 (0.00%) |
| Hang Seng Index | 23,261.08 | -105.29 (-0.45%) |
| TSEC | 8,398.84 | 0.00 (0.00%) |
| EURO STOXX 50 | 2,835.01 | +13.36 (0.47%) |
| CAC 40 | 4,051.11 | +14.93 (0.37%) |
| S&P TSX | 12,752.50 | +10.07 (0.08%) |
| S&P/ASX 200 | 5,144.40 | -21.00 (-0.41%) |
| BSE Sensex | 20,062.24 | -49.37 (-0.25%) |
| KOSPI | 1,993.83 | 0.00 (0.00%) |
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WHILE David Cameron was embarked on his latest round of diplomacy in Europe to try to get EU agreement on tackling tax avoidance by multinational companies, his Chancellor, George Osborne, was back in London responding to the report on the UK ...
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Top stories
The US Federal Reserve heralded the beginning of the end for its third round of quantitative easing as Ben Bernanke said it could slow the $85bn-a-month pace of asset purchases �in the next few meetings� if the labour market is strong.
Nationwide has grabbed a record share of the mortgage market after seeing a big rise in the number of first-time buyers joining the property ladder.
Cable & Wireless Communications, the telecoms group that traces its history back to the early days of the British empire, is to leave the UK after more than 140 years and move its headquarters across the Atlantic.
The move is the latest blow to Italy where the new coalition government of Enrico Letta is seeking to staunch an outflow of investment amid a recession of nearly two years.
A company headed by an Irishman and using wind energy technology first designed in Queen's University Belfast has been granted planning permission by the Scottish government for the world's largest commercial wave farm.
Trends
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| OCDO | Ocado Group PLC | 0.13% | 1,644.73M |
| MRW | Wm. Morrison Supermarkets plc | -2.32% | 6,566.26M |
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| Cons. Non-Cyclical | +0.19% |
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| Energy | +0.06% |
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| Financial | +0.73% |
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| Healthcare | +1.44% |
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| Services | -0.36% |
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| Technology | -0.71% |
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| Transportation | +1.06% |
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| Utilities | -0.26% |
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