World markets
| Shanghai | 2,302.40 | -2.71 (-0.12%) |
| S&P 500 | 1,661.71 | -7.45 (-0.45%) |
| Nikkei 225 | 15,627.26 | +246.24 (1.60%) |
| Hang Seng Index | 23,261.08 | -105.29 (-0.45%) |
| TSEC | 8,398.84 | +15.79 (0.19%) |
| EURO STOXX 50 | 2,835.01 | +13.36 (0.47%) |
| CAC 40 | 4,051.11 | +14.93 (0.37%) |
| S&P TSX | 12,808.68 | +66.25 (0.52%) |
| S&P/ASX 200 | 5,165.40 | -14.70 (-0.28%) |
| BSE Sensex | 20,062.24 | -49.37 (-0.25%) |
| KOSPI | 1,993.83 | +12.74 (0.64%) |
IMF tells George Osborne to borrow �9bn more to plough into infrastructure to ...
Calling for an immediate stimulus to �offset� the austerity scheduled for 2013, David Lipton, the IMF's deputy managing director, said: �We suggest the Government bring forward planned capital spending and consider measures such as reducing the effective ...
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Top stories
Wednesday 18.00 BST. Dovish comments from Ben Bernanke helped global equities scale fresh cyclical peaks, although Treasury bonds and the dollar saw choppy trading as he subsequently reminded the markets that the Federal Reserve's quantitative ...
The timing of Easter and the freezing weather seen at the start of the month caused retail sales to fall by 2.2 per cent on an annual basis.
Nationwide has increased its share of the British mortgage market to a record level, helped by government-funded programmes to support housebuyers, such as the Bank of England's Funding for Lending Scheme.
George Osborne is preparing to set out his plans to return bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland to the private sector after the International Monetary Fund called on him to devise a "clear strategy" for the two banks.
Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, said "I don't think companies should decide what tax policies should be. Governments should.
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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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