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| US unveils $250bn banking rescue |
| The US government will buy stakes in major banks to try to stabilise the battered financial sector. |
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| Shares rise as confidence returns |
| World stock markets push higher, as investors welcome government action to shore up banks. |
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| Icelandic exchange re-opens lower |
| The Icelandic stock exchange falls after trading resumes for the first time since being suspended last Thursday. |
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| Daimler to axe 3,500 truck jobs |
| Thousands of workers at Daimler, one of the world's biggest makers of heavy trucks, will lose their jobs. |
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| Germany 'on brink of recession' |
| Germany's economy is heading for recession and will only expand by 0.2% in 2009, the country's four leading economic think tanks warn. |
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| Pepsi cuts jobs as profits slide |
| PespsiCo is to axe 3,300 jobs as part of a cost-cutting plan after profits fell amid lagging soft drinks sales in the US. |
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| Krugman wins Nobel for economics |
| American Paul Krugman has won this year's Nobel economics prize for his work on trade patterns, it has been announced. |
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| Morgan Stanley secures investment |
| Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ buys a 21% stake in Morgan Stanley for $9bn after securing more favourable terms.. |
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| UK banks receive £37bn bail-out |
| Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds TSB and HBOS fall sharply despite the UK's government's £37bn bail-out package. |
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| US debt clock runs out of digits as growing deficit needs extra zeros |
| The national debt clock in New York runs out of digits to record the spiralling figure. |
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| Guidelines for financial journalists |
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| Job done? |
| Will the efforts to revive the banking sector work? |
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| Robert Peston |
| How to stop the nationalisation of the banks |
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| Alive and kicking |
| Why US football means more than just David Beckham |
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| German rescue |
| Finance minister Steinbrueck on the bank bail-out |
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| Immoral lending |
| UK mortgage broker admits immoral practices |
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| Recession-proof? |
| Bloomberg's stock rises as Wall Street shares fall |
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| Consumer inflation reaches 5.2% |
| The annual rate of UK inflation hits a 16-year high of 5.2%, with higher energy bills behind much of the increase. |
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| House sales hit new 30-year low |
| The UK property market slump is becoming even worse, says the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. |
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| No legal case against Rock bosses |
| Nationalised lender Northern Rock says it will not take legal action for negligence against those in charge before its collapse. |
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| Barclays faces investment lawsuit |
| Barclays is sued over claims it moved loss-making investments from its own accounts to outside investors. |
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| Libya 'to pull Swiss bank assets' |
| Libya is to withdraw an estimated $7m of assets from Swiss banks in a row over the arrest of the Libyan leader's son. |
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| Financial crisis 'worries Africa' |
| The chairman of the African Union appeals against any cut in aid following the global financial crisis. |
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| US stocks soar after crisis talks |
| Wall Street shares rocket 11% as investors welcome fresh efforts by governments to deal with the financial crisis. |
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| Mexico unveils emergency plan |
| Mexico's president announces plans to spend $4.3bn on infrastructure to help offset the effects of the global credit crunch. |
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| Fear grips global stock markets |
| Global stocks fall sharply on one of the worst days of trading in 30 years, despite continuing actions to tackle the crisis. |
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| Japan holds interest rate at 0.5% |
| Japan keeps its key interest rate at 0.5% for the 20th consecutive month - amid continued worries about the global financial crisis. |
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| Europe acts to strengthen banks |
| Major European economies announce financial rescue schemes to shore up their banking systems. |
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| UK loan offered to Icelandic bank |
| A £100m loan is being offered by the Bank of England to collapsed Icelandic bank Landsbanki, which owned Icesave. |
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| Middle East stock markets plunge |
| Shares on the main Arab stock markets fall sharply amid concern the financial crisis in the US and Europe is spreading to the Middle East. |
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| Oil price dips below $90 a barrel |
| Oil prices fall to an eight-month low of less than US $90 a barrel and shares on Gulf stock markets fall sharply. |
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| US bans key Indian drug imports |
| The US FDA says it has banned the import of more than 30 generic drugs made by Indian drug firm Ranbaxy. |
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| Pakistan sees wider trade deficit |
| Export disruption causes trade gap between Pakistan and the rest of the world to widen in August. |
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