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Last Updated:20/11/2008
Retailer Marks & Spencer is to hold its first one-day sale in four years in a bid to revive its pre-Christmas trading.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7737281.stm
Property sales rose slightly in October, for the second month in a row, estate agents say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7737507.stm
US consumer prices dropped by a record 1% in October, sending Wall Street and European markets lower on renewed recession fears.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7737726.stm
The migrant workers taken into care following a human trafficking raid in Lincolnshire were harvesting vegetables for a supplier to Tesco and ...(more)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/7738293.stm
Struggling High Street chain Woolworths confirms that it is in talks about the possible sale of its retail business.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7737071.stm
UBS and Goldman Sachs will not pay bonuses to their top executives in 2008, the banking giants reveal.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7733431.stm
The FTSE 100 was down 74.49 points at 4134.06 while the FTSE 250 fell to 5810.13, down 115.85 points, at 12.00 pm....(more)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sharewatch/market-update--19-november-1025424.html
Unions staged a protest today as Lloyds TSB shareholders prepared to vote on the proposed takeover of ailing rival HBOS. ...(more)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/protest-ahead-of-hbos-takeover-vote-1025407.html
Marks & Spencer will tomorrow hold a one-day 20 per cent off sale amid further signs of anxiety over the downturn in consumer spending. ...(more)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/mamps-slashes-prices-to-beat-downturn-1025181.html
The number of manufacturing firms freezing pay or deferring wage increases has risen sharply to almost one in four in the last three months, a ...(more)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/downturn-sees-sharp-rise-in-wage-freezes-1025167.html