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<description><![CDATA[As you try to figure out how to put your money to work in a market that veers from depression to mania, you're confronted with two opposing facts that lead to opposing investing strategies.]]></description>
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<title>Why cable is going to cost you even more</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Your cable bill is going up this year -- and next year, and the year after that -- with no end in sight.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[GMAC, the troubled finance company that last week scored a third government bailout, said Tuesday it expects to post a record fourth-quarter loss of $5 billion.]]></description>
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<title>Apple raising its game with Quattro buy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Apple said on Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Quattro Wireless, a mobile advertising and publishing company.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Brace yourself! 3-D entertainment is coming to a television set near you.]]></description>
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<title>Treasurys up on home sales drop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Treasury prices rose Tuesday after a report showed that pending home sales fell more than expected in November, boosting the appeal of bonds as safe havens for investors.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year indeed! The financial markets got off to a hot start on the first day of trading Monday. Name an asset and it likely went up.]]></description>
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<title>Auto sales: Good end to terrible year</title>
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<title>Stimulus to bring body scanners to airports</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government is using $25 million in stimulus money to buy and install full body scanners in airports this year, in an effort to ramp up security and create jobs.]]></description>
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<title>Oil steadies at 14-month high</title>
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<title>Dollar little changed after mixed economic data</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The dollar was little changed versus major currencies on Tuesday after reports showed that pending home sales fell in November and U.S. factory orders rose.]]></description>
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<title>Severe unemployment worsens in cities</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The number of U.S. metropolitan areas with jobless rates above 15% increased in November, according to government figures released Tuesday, despite the biggest one-month drop in the national rate in more than three years.]]></description>
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<title>Homebuyers sign 16% fewer contracts in November</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Homebuyers abandoned the market in droves during November: They signed 16% fewer sales contracts than the month before.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Stocks ended a choppy session little changed Tuesday as investors weighed a seesawing dollar, a slew of auto sales and reports on pending home sales and factory orders.]]></description>
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<title>Board pay: Unchecked and out of hand</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Here's a strong opinion right upfront: High pay for outside directors of corporations guts the whole idea of these representatives of the shareholders making independent judgments. How does a board member challenge a CEO when the director is being paid oversize amounts likely to be important to his or her lifestyle?]]></description>
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<title>The myth of &#x27;Cadillac Care&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Can you tell a Chevy Malibu from a Cadillac Escalade? I'm sure you can, but I've got doubts about the 60 Senators in Washington who want to impose a stiff excise tax on what they call "Cadillac Care" health plans to raise revenue and reduce health spending.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Reforming America&#8217;s health-insurance system was never going to be an easy task, given people&#8217;s natural aversion to change (not to mention Republicans&#8217; aversion to doing anything that might help Barack Obama). But what&#8217;s made the task even more difficult is that American&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Crisis in the Tiger Woods business.</title>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Why the Chinese don&#x26;#8217;t spend.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[8220;China makes, the world takes.&#8221; For decades, that has been the motto of the Chinese economy, which is built on providing an endless supply of goods for the rest of the world to buy. But these days there&#8217;s a palpable sense that this needs to change&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: How the tax code encourages debt.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John Kenneth Galbraith wrote that all financial crises are the result of &#8220;debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale.&#8221; The recent financial crisis was no exception, with everyone&#8212;homeowners, private-equity investors, our biggest banks&#8212;taking on enormous amounts of&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: The Amazon Wal-Mart price war.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 1992, the airline industry was in dismal shape, debilitated by the recently ended recession and an overreliance on discounting. So American Airlines announced a new &#8220;value pricing&#8221; plan, which entailed cutting fares while replacing complex discounts with a simple, four-tier price system. It&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Why banks stay big.</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Before the financial crisis, the banking industry was too concentrated and clubby. And now? It&#8217;s even more so. In the midst of the crisis, the country&#8217;s four biggest banks&#8212;Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo&#8212;actually got bigger. Thanks primarily to&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Exit Through Lobby</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Resigning in protest is not in the American grain. Robert McNamara stuck around as Secretary of Defense even after he decided that the Vietnam War was a disaster; Colin Powell did the same during the Bush Administration&#8217;s push for war with Iraq; and in the lead-up to&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[For all the uncertainty about the current state of the economy, everyone is sure of one thing: this recession has permanently remade American consumers, turning them from spendthrifts into tightwads. From cover stories on &#8220;The New Frugality&#8221; to stories about cheapness as a new status symbol and pundits&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<title>James Surowiecki: Ratings Downgrade</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When Barack Obama went to Wall Street last week to make the case for meaningful financial regulation, he took well-deserved shots at some of the villains of the financial crisis: greedy bankers, reckless investors, and captive regulators. But to that list he could have added credit-rating agencies like&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The economy is still limping, job losses are still rising, and consumers are still reluctant to open their wallets. So it&#8217;s the perfect time to worry about . . . inflation? Apparently so, because, of late, the cries of inflation hawks have grown increasingly loud. Pointing to huge deficit spending, and&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[LONDON (Reuters) - Kraft said it had a 1.52 percent take-up from Cadbury shareholders for its 10.5 billion pound ($16.8 billion) hostile bid, with analysts saying the U.S. food group will have to raise its offer to win.
  
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<title>Cold Snap Gripping Gulf States Threatens Fla. Crop</title>
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<title>Oil Hovers Below $82 Amid US Crude Inventory Drop</title>
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<title>World Markets Tempered by Mixed US Economy Figures</title>
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<title>US Military Boosts Efforts to Help Afghan Farmers</title>
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<title>Obama Prods Congress to Pass Health Bill Quickly</title>
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<title>WATCH:  Family Gets a 2010 Money Makeover</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Elisabeth Leamy tests out money savings tips from her book, "Save Big."

  
  
  
  
  
  



 
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<title>WATCH:  Making Sense of New Banking Fees</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mellody Hobson explains how credit card companies will get around new rules.

  
  
  
  
  
  



 
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<title>WATCH:  Dealing With New Gadgets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Geek Squad super agent shares helpful tips for using new gifts.

  
  
  
  
  
  



 
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<title>WATCH:  Market Sneak Peek</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Matt Jaffe takes a look at the week ahead on the first day of trading in 2010.

  
  
  
  
  
  



 
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<title>WATCH:  Burj Dubai: The Height of Skyscrapers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Dubai prepares to open the world's tallest skyscraper amid a financial crisis.

  
  
  
  
  
  



 
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<title>WATCH:  2010 Economic Forecast</title>
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<title>WATCH:  Financial New Year&#x27;s Resolutions</title>
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<title>WATCH:  Can Male Prostitutes Boost Economy?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A number of unemployed men have applied for work at a Nevada brothel.

  
  
  
  
  
  



 
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<title>WATCH:  Tiger Effect on Economy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Study says golfer's sponsors have suffered a cumulative loss of $12 billion.

  
  
  
  
  
  



 
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<title>WATCH:  Foreclosures on the Rise</title>
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<title>WATCH:  Frequent Fliers Share Travel Tips</title>
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<title>WATCH:  Home Prices Rise Again</title>
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<title>M&#x26;S sales disappoint the market</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Shares in Marks and Spencer fall 4.25% after its increase in sales for the Christmas period fails to meet market expectations.]]></description>
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<title>Cadbury investors reject Kraft</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cadbury shareholders overwhelmingly reject the initial hostile takeover offer tabled by Kraft Food.]]></description>
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<title>Manchester City post massive loss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A player-buying spree after being taken over by Sheikh Mansour sees Manchester City lose £92.6m in 2008/09.]]></description>
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<title>Mandelson moves on budget deficit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lord Mandelson will try to reassure the markets ministers are not divided over cutting the UK's £178bn budget deficit.]]></description>
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<title>Majestic Wine sees rise in sales</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Majestic Wine enjoys a strong rise in sales over the Christmas period, boosted by its decision to lower minimum purchases.]]></description>
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<title>Greece pledges deep cuts in debt</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Greece says it will have its budget deficit back under control in just two years, earlier than previously planned. 
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<title>HTC reports sixth fall in profits</title>
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<title>Chile copper miners&#x27; strike ends</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Work is set to resume at the world's second biggest copper mine in Chile after workers voted to end a strike over pay.]]></description>
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<title>English move for Glasgow&#x27;s Herald</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Herald newspaper moves some production from its headquarters in Glasgow to a processing centre in Yorkshire.]]></description>
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<title>Monster tuna sold for 16.28 million yen (&#xA3;109,000) at Tokyo market</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A tuna has been sold at auction in Tokyo for 16.28 million yen ($175,000), the highest price for nine years.]]></description>
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<title>Stuck?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Your travel compensation rights explained ]]></description>
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<title>Robert Peston</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The market test of Britains credit worthiness]]></description>
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<title>Postcode pensions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where you live can affect the price of your annuity]]></description>
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<title>All out in 2010?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Industrial relations could be strained this year]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Small cars star at India's main motorshow]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/8439315.stm">
<title>Baking salvation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cake firm helps businesswoman overcome her past
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<title>Google unveils Nexus One handset</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Search giant Google reveals details of its own-brand of smartphone, called the Nexus One.]]></description>
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<title>Kraft&#x27;s Cadbury plans dealt blow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Kraft Foods' plans to buy Cadbury are hit by news that one of its key shareholders is wary of the bid move.]]></description>
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<title>Iceland leader vetoes bank bill</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Iceland's president refuses to sign a controversial bill to repay UK and Netherlands billions of pounds lost in the banking crisis. ]]></description>
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<title>Apple v Google fight intensifies </title>
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<description><![CDATA[The two giants of communication take fight to each others' home turf.]]></description>
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<title>Gas storage level low, say Tories</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The UK has the equivalent of eight days worth of gas usage left in storage, the Conservative Party has claimed.]]></description>
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<title>New power line approval due</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Scottish government is expected to approve plans for a line of giant pylons from the Highlands to central Scotland.]]></description>
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<title>Nestle rules out bid for Cadbury</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Food giant Nestle says it does not intend to table a bid for Cadbury, while Kraft changes the terms of its takeover offer.]]></description>
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<title>New year bug hits German cards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Millions of Germans are facing problems using their credit and debit cards due to a new year software bug.]]></description>
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<title>Record fines from City regulator</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The City regulator handed down record fines of nearly £35m in 2009 - with plans to increase the total in the future.]]></description>
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<title>Premier League eyes tech deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The worlds most lucrative football league creates its first new sponsorship category since 2002.]]></description>
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<title>Nokia in second Apple case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Handset maker Nokia has launched a second court case in its legal battle with Apple over patents. ]]></description>
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<title>Boiler scrappage scheme begins</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A government scheme that gives households in England £400 off the cost of a new boiler has been launched.]]></description>
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<title>Duty change for online shoppers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UK shoppers can now spend more on the internet from stores in non-EU countries before being charged duty.]]></description>
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<title>New bonuses for Equitable savers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Troubled pension company Equitable Life reverses last year's cut in policy values and awards its savers an interim bonus.]]></description>
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<title>FlyGlobespan cash recovery move</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Accountants chasing creditors of the failed airline FlyGlobespan take legal action against the firm handling online ticket sales.]]></description>
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<title>UK factory activity &#x27;accelerates&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UK manufacturing activity grew at its fastest pace in more than two years in December, a survey indicates.]]></description>
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<title>Cambridge mulls issuing bonds</title>
<link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/education/8441034.stm</link>
<description><![CDATA[Cambridge University is considering issuing bonds of up to £300m for the first time on its 800-year history.]]></description>
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<title>Borrowers are picky about loans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The number of people taking out mortgages to buy a home rose again in November but the appetite for other loans fell.]]></description>
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<title>&#x27;Lots of interest&#x27; in West Ham</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The owner of West Ham United says there is interest in buying the club but that they are under no pressure to sell.]]></description>
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<title>TfL &#x27;wasted&#x27; &#xA3;20m on Tube access</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Transport for London admits writing off £20m it invested in accessibility projects at underground stations that were later cancelled due to its financial difficulties.]]></description>
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<title>Sales at John Lewis reach record</title>
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<description><![CDATA[John Lewis's department stores report record Christmas sales figures after taking more than £100m a week.]]></description>
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<title>Robert Peston&#x27;s blog - for the latest business analysis </title>
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<title>Stephanomics - economic analysis from Stephanie Flanders</title>
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<title>Chelsea now &#x27;virtually debt-free&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chelsea Football Club says it is now "virtually debt-free" after turning most of its liabilities into equity.]]></description>
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<title>Pompey &#x27;shock&#x27; at wind-up request</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Portsmouth Football Club says it is "shocked and surprised" by the winding-up petition issued by HM Revenue & Customs.]]></description>
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<title>Guidelines for financial journalists</title>
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<title>Taser diversifies its arsenal: Proto-RoboCop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The iconic maker of stun-guns aims to take policing into cyberspaceYOU know you have made it when the name of your firm mutates into a verb, as with Google and Hoover. A recent addition to this select group is Taser International. To be &#8220;tasered&#8221; is to be briefly paralysed by an electrically charged dart fired from one of the firm&#8217;s stun guns, usually by police seeking to pacify someone without resort to firearms. But the firm hopes it will soon come to mean much more.The device&#8217;s success has been electrifying. In the 15 years since it first came on the market, it has become an essential bit of kit. It is used by 14,000 of the 18,000 law-enforcement agencies in America, along with many foreign ones. &#8220;Half the cops in America carry a Taser as well as a gun,&#8221; says Rick Smith, Taser&#8217;s boss.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Clean technology after Copenhagen: Waiting for a green light</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Business comes to terms with a disappointing outcomeSO KEEN were many energy and clean-technology executives to see a robust agreement to cut emissions of greenhouse gases emerge from December&#8217;s climate summit that thousands of them trekked to Copenhagen to cheer policymakers on. It was to no avail: the participants failed to agree on a global mechanism to put a price on emissions, making it harder for energy firms to justify big investments in unproven green technologies, such as advanced biofuels or carbon capture and storage. &#8220;Almost all areas of clean technology will get a little less investor interest because there is no mandate,&#8221; predicts Vinod Khosla, a prominent venture capitalist.  Clean-tech executives were encouraged by commitments to improve energy efficiency made by India and China, as well as a promise by rich countries to funnel billions to poor ones to pay for green investments. Many shrug off events in Copenhagen on the grounds that national, regional and local regulations are the main drivers of clean-tech investment, not international deals. Paul Holland of Foundation Capital, a venture firm, points out that many municipalities in America have promised to reduce carbon emissions to 1990 levels. This is driving strong demand for smart grids, green building materials and the like. Many states have green initiatives too. ...]]></description>
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<title>Schumpeter: Womenomics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Feminist management theorists are flirting with some dangerous argumentsTHE late Paul Samuelson once quipped that &#8220;women are just men with less money&#8221;. As a father of six, he might have added something about women&#8217;s role in the reproduction of the species. But his aphorism is about as good a one-sentence summary of classical feminism as you can get. The first generations of successful women insisted on being judged by the same standards as men. They had nothing but contempt for the notion of special treatment for &#8220;the sisters&#8221;, and instead insisted on getting ahead by dint of working harder and thinking smarter. Margaret Thatcher made no secret of her contempt for the wimpish men around her. (There is a joke about her going out to dinner with her cabinet. &#8220;Steak or fish?&#8221; asks the waiter. &#8220;Steak, of course,&#8221; she replies. &#8220;And for the vegetables?&#8221; &#8220;They&#8217;ll have steak as well.&#8221;) During America&#8217;s most recent presidential election Hillary Clinton taunted Barack Obama with an advertisement that implied that he, unlike she, was not up to the challenge of answering the red phone at 3am. ...]]></description>
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<title>Government and business in France: Dirigisme de rigueur</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nicolas Sarkozy is reversing the French state&#8217;s gradual withdrawal from the world of businessWHEN Vivendi, a French telecoms and media group, announced a deal to buy GVT, a Brazilian telecoms firm, for &#8364;2 billion ($2.9 billion) in September, the last thing it expected was a scolding from the Elysee Palace, the official residence of France&#8217;s president, Nicolas Sarkozy. His staff complained that they should have been briefed as the deal was being negotiated, which might then have allowed Mr Sarkozy to bask in the glory during his recent visit to Brazil. Phone calls from the Elysee are becoming a frequent feature of French business. In February Eutelsat, a satellite firm in which the state is a minority shareholder, decided to use a Chinese &#8220;Long March&#8221; rocket to launch a satellite. It wanted to diversify its suppliers and keep costs down. Soon afterwards the company&#8217;s board members were summoned to the Elysee. Eutelsat should have used a rocket built by Arianespace, a French firm, they were told by one of Mr Sarkozy&#8217;s advisers.  ...]]></description>
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<title>KEPCO wins a nuclear contract: Atomic dawn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Korean reactors trump Western onesIT IS usually the northerly of the two Koreas that attracts attention for its nuclear prowess. But on December 27th a South Korean consortium seized the limelight by winning a $20 billion contract to build four nuclear reactors in the United Arab Emirates. The consortium, led by Korea Electric Power (KEPCO), a state-controlled utility, could earn another $20 billion running the plants over their projected lifespan of 60 years.Competition for the contract had been stiff. GE and Hitachi, two engineering giants, had launched a joint bid, as had a consortium led by France&#8217;s nuclear champion, Areva. France&#8217;s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, had lobbied energetically on behalf of the latter group. But South Korea&#8217;s president, Lee Myung-bak, was equally keen. As a former boss of Hyundai Construction, he has first-hand experience both of vying for contracts in the Gulf and of building nuclear plants. Mr Lee is said to have promised to share some tips on boosting manufacturing, a fond ambition of the Emirates. ...]]></description>
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<title>Pay-TV in emerging markets: Finding El Dorado</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Big media firms are quietly building empires overseasFOR a long time pay-television has essentially been an American business, much more popular (and lucrative) there than anywhere else in the world. But the balance is about to tip. In 2010 more will be spent on subscriptions to multichannel television outside the United States&#8212;about $96 billion&#8212;than in it, according to SNL Kagan, a research outfit. The effect on big American media firms is profound. The rest of the world has lagged America in pay-TV both because relatively few people subscribe to it and because, in some countries, it has been difficult to sell advertising. In Japan, for example, just 24% of television-owning households pay for more channels, and ad revenue is puny. Yet other countries are catching up, with poorer countries often speeding past richer ones (see chart). Brazil&#8217;s Net Servicos grew from 1.8m subscribers in 2006 to 3.6m in 2009. American media companies hope that they will be lifted by a rising tide of pay-TV subscribers in emerging markets. ...]]></description>
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<title>Technology firms and antitrust: Here we go again</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As one long-running antitrust case comes to an end, others emergeTRUSTBUSTERS on either side of the Atlantic had seemed in permanent disagreement in 2009, at least when it came to technology firms. In January the European Commission decided to go after Microsoft for bundling its web browser with its operating system&#8212;a tactic which America&#8217;s Department of Justice (DoJ) had decided to let stand a long time before. In May the commission fined Intel &#8364;1.06 billion (then $1.44 billion) for having abused its dominance, whereas the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in Washington did not seem interested. And in November the commission objected to the proposed $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, a troubled maker of computer hardware, by Oracle, a business-software giant&#8212;a deal that the DoJ had already approved.Yet on December 16th, American and European antitrust regulators began playing in tune. First Neelie Kroes, Europe&#8217;s competition commissioner, announced that she had reached a settlement with Microsoft. Starting in March, all versions of Windows will come with a &#8220;choice screen&#8221; inviting users to install any of 12 different browsers. This should make Europe&#8217;s browser market more competitive, and end the decade-long antitrust action against the world&#8217;s biggest software firm. ...]]></description>
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<title>Spain&#x27;s El Gordo lottery: Gamblers united</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How an original business model got Spaniards hookedIT IS called El Gordo (&#8220;the Fatty&#8221;) because of the huge amount it pays out: &#8364;2.3 billion ($3.3 billion) in this year&#8217;s draw, to be held on December 22nd. Yet Spain&#8217;s Christmas lottery is notable not just for the vast sums to be won, but also for its clever business model.Spaniards are not especially big gamblers, with spending per head below the average for the European Union, according to a 2006 study by London Economics, a consultancy. Yet they spend about &#8364;12 billion a year on lottery tickets, over 1% of GDP&#8212;almost as much as the country spends on research and development. Roughly three-quarters of them participate in the Christmas lottery. ...]]></description>
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<title>Tax reform in India: Trickle through</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An ambitious overhaul of India&#8217;s confusing hotch-potch of indirect taxes could give business a boostTO MANY Indians the tendu leaf is a source of comfort. Hand-picked, dried then dampened, the leaf is rolled into the beedis, or cigarettes, that glow in India&#8217;s winter gloom. But the leaf is also a small example of India&#8217;s fiscal fragmentation. In the state of Rajasthan and many others, the state government charges a value-added tax (VAT) of just 4% on the leaf, deeming it an essential good. In Uttarakhand, the government charges the standard rate of 12.5%. In Madhya Pradesh, meanwhile, leaf-rollers must pay a hefty 25.3%.India&#8217;s appeal to business rests on the potential size of its market: over 1 billion consumers, spending about $600 billion a year. But viewed through a fiscal lens, the country is not one market, but 28 states, each with its own tax-raising powers, which they are not afraid to use. ...]]></description>
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<title>Maiden flights for Boeing and Airbus: Upwards and onwards</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Airborne at last, the Dreamliner and the A400M still have a lot to proveON THE face of it the A400M, a dumpy military transport made by Airbus, and Boeing&#8217;s sleek 787 Dreamliner (pictured) have little in common other than that they both flew for the first time in the past few days. But they share a similar history: both planes finally took to the air more than two years late and far over budget. Moreover, both were developed in unnecessarily complicated ways, even though big aviation projects are difficult enough without taking on further risks.In an effort to reduce the cost of developing an innovative new aircraft, Boeing recruited &#8220;risk-sharing&#8221; partners who became largely responsible for designing whole sections of the plane, while creating one of the most complex and extended supply chains in industrial history. But Boeing failed to supervise its partners&#8217; work adequately and has probably ended up spending more to put things right than it ever would have saved. With the A400M, European defence ministers jeopardised the project from the outset by setting up a politically conceived consortium to produce the aircraft&#8217;s giant turboprop engines rather than allowing Airbus to buy them from America&#8217;s Pratt &amp; Whitney.  ...]]></description>
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<title>Exxon Mobil buys XTO Energy: Unconventional</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The unflappable oil giant changes tackIN RECENT years, as the price of oil rose to record levels, analysts fretted that Exxon Mobil&#8217;s conservatism was undermining its future growth. As rivals threw money at new projects or acquisitions, it spent more on share buybacks and dividends than it invested. Critics complained that the firm was slowly winding itself up. But Exxon&#8217;s managers endlessly intoned that they invested for the long term, and would not be moved by temporary swings in prices. That approach was vindicated when oil prices plunged last year. Now Exxon has taken advantage of lower oil and gas prices to replenish its reserves&#8212;and raised a different set of questions about its future. On December 14th Exxon agreed to buy XTO Energy, a natural-gas firm, in a deal valued at $41 billion. The deal was apparently struck when Exxon&#8217;s chief executive, Rex Tillerson, entertained Bob Simpson, XTO&#8217;s boss, at a quail hunt on company land in Texas. If completed, this will be Exxon&#8217;s first acquisition worth more than $2 billion since its transformational $80 billion purchase of Mobil in 1999. It will increase Exxon&#8217;s proved reserves by the equivalent of 2.3 billion barrels of oil, or almost 20%. But it also brings promising exploration rights, with the potential to increase reserves and production even more, and great expertise in exploiting them. ...]]></description>
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<title>Schumpeter: The silence of Mammon</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Business people should stand up for themselvesHENRY HAZLITT, one of the great popularisers of free-market thinking, once said that good ideas have to be relearned in every generation. This is certainly true of good ideas about business. A generation ago Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan did an excellent job of making the case in favour of business. Today it looks as though the case needs to be made all over again.It is hardly surprising that business has fallen from grace in recent years. The credit crunch almost plunged the world into depression. The new century began with the implosion of Enron and other prominent firms. Some bosses pay themselves like princes while preaching austerity to their workers. Business titans who once graced the covers of magazines have been hauled before congressional committees or carted off to prison. ...]]></description>
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<title>Panettone season arrives: A piece of cake</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How Italy&#8217;s bakers cope with seasonal demandFLUFFY, dome-shaped, dotted with sultanas and candied citrus peel, panettone is an Italian Christmas cake. Italians will eat about 40m of them over the holiday season this year. They are becoming popular elsewhere too: an estimated 1m have crossed the Atlantic this autumn. Delia Smith, a celebrity chef, recently caused a surge in demand in Britain with a recipe for trifle made with panettone. That is great news for the big manufacturers of the Milanese speciality back in Italy. But catering to the growing and ever more dispersed appetite for panettone requires some deft industrial planning.The grand cafes in Milan, such as Taveggia, Sant&#8217;Ambroeus and Cova, about which Ernest Hemingway wrote in &#8220;A Farewell to Arms&#8221;, simply squeeze a few batches of panettoni into their normal baking schedules as Christmas approaches. But for industrial producers such as Bauli, which will make 12m this season, that is not possible. Although Bauli is diversified into year-round products like croissants and biscuits, seasonal cakes account for over 50% of its turnover, which is expected to be &#8364;420m ($570m) this year. ...]]></description>
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<title>New ties for VW, GM and Peugeot Citro&#xEB;n: Asian alliances</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three deals signal the way forward for the car industryHAVING weathered the storm, global carmakers are now turning their attention to the tie-ups they hope will give them an edge in the upturn. Two such deals, the first involving General Motors and its Chinese partner SAIC, and the second between Volkswagen and Suzuki, have been concluded in the past few days. Another, linking PSA Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi, is still under negotiation. All three are aimed at winning a bigger presence in Asia and tapping into low-cost manufacturing expertise, while sharing components and development budgets. Of the three, the most significant is VW&#8217;s announcement this week that it has agreed to pay $2.5 billion for 19.9% of Suzuki, a family-owned Japanese maker of small cars and motorcycles. Along with Fiat, Suzuki may be the only manufacturer of international importance that knows how to make money out of small, inexpensive cars. That is something VW forgot long ago. But it needs to relearn it, argues Max Warburton of Bernstein Research, if it is not to suffer from the worldwide trend towards downsizing, as new emissions laws bite and growth shifts to poorer consumers in emerging markets. ...]]></description>
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<title>Indonesia&#x27;s coal rush: Sooty success</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Rising demand from China and India is stoking Indonesia&#8217;s exports of coalFOR power stations on the coast of China, it is often cheaper to import coal by sea from Indonesia than from mines in the interior. The same goes for many Indian consumers. Japan and South Korea, both big importers, are also close&#8212;putting Indonesia at the heart of an Asian coal boom.The majority of electricity in China, India and several other Asian countries comes from burning coal. Demand for the stuff has grown rapidly, along with the region&#8217;s economies. It is likely to continue to do so, despite environmental concerns, because coal is abundant and cheap. Last month the International Energy Agency predicted global demand for coal would increase by 1.9% a year until 2015, outpacing all other fossil fuels except natural gas. ...]]></description>
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<title>Roche digests Genentech: Back to the lab</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The newly expanded pharmaceutical firm bets on old-fashioned research&#8220;THE fundamental question is whether it is still worthwhile to invest in pharmaceutical science,&#8221; says Severin Schwan, the newish boss of Roche, a once-stodgy Swiss drugs firm. A cursory glance at his rivals, who have been trying to concentrate less on coming up with new medicines and more on making simpler things such as &#8220;branded&#8221; generics and over-the-counter drugs, suggests that the answer is no. Indeed, some analysts claim that the industry&#8217;s giants face such a precipitous decline in sales from drugs coming off patent, with so few promising new prospects to replace them, that their entire business model is collapsing.That argument has Mr Schwan leaping out of his seat with indignation. Using a deck of PowerPoint slides he sets out to disprove &#8220;the chorus of gloom&#8221;. Drugmaking is &#8220;so crude&#8221;, he argues, that half of all known diseases cannot be treated at all, and the drugs for the other half work properly only half the time and with huge side effects. &#8220;Imagine a car that starts only half the time, and whose brakes often don&#8217;t work,&#8221; he says. He sees this sorry state of affairs as a huge business opportunity. In particular, he is convinced that rapid advances in diagnostics, genomics and biotechnology will bring &#8220;a brand new revolution&#8221; in personalised medicine. ...]]></description>
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<title>Corporate reform in America: A chill in the boardroom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Business lobbyists complain that a regulatory tsunami is on its way. But some firms are embracing the proposed reforms&#8220;WHEN people hear the word regulation, they feel stifled, delayed, and many times they believe that government is being intrusive,&#8221; said Hilda Solis, America&#8217;s labour secretary, on December 7th as she unveiled plans for 90 new regulatory initiatives to improve the lot of workers. If you doubt her word, try mentioning regulation to the boss of an American company. Then stand back and wait for the inevitable explosion.Stifled, delayed and intruded upon are the least of the complaints you hear from America&#8217;s bosses these days. Their list of grouses includes ever-increasing regulation, stricter corporate-governance standards and the threat of higher taxes in response to the ballooning deficit. This week the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it considered carbon dioxide to be a dangerous pollutant, raising the spectre of clumsy administrative measures to reduce emissions&#8212;a prospect even more terrifying to business than the cap-and-trade scheme currently under consideration in Congress. Meanwhile, hopes of business-friendly reforms to America&#8217;s convoluted corporate-tax regime, among other things, have fallen by the wayside. ...]]></description>
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<title>New strategies at AOL and Yahoo!: Back into the fray</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two fallen internet titans are trying to regain their footing&#8220;THEY never come back&#8221; may be an ironclad law of boxing, but AOL and Yahoo! are trying to prove that it does not apply to lumbering online giants. On December 9th Time Warner span off AOL, undoing a famously ill-conceived merger. A couple of days earlier Yahoo! and Microsoft finalised an agreement to merge their web-search and much of their advertising businesses, freeing Yahoo! to hone a new strategy. Peculiarly, both firms&#8217; comeback plans hinge on giving away content to attract traffic and thus advertising&#8212;an online strategy that has disappointed many media companies.AOL and Yahoo! came of age a decade ago in different corners of the internet: one as the biggest provider of dial-up access, the other as the leading web directory. Both soon turned into &#8220;portals&#8221; providing both content and communications tools, such as web-mail and instant messaging. More recently, both have drifted while the internet evolved around them. A series of weak bosses failed to do away with fiefs, professionalise management and keep the brands fresh, even as competition&#8212;from broadband in the case of AOL, and from rivals such as Google and Facebook for Yahoo!&#8212;ate into revenues. ...]]></description>
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<title>Schumpeter: Talent on tap</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The fashion for hiring temps has reached the executive suiteTEMPORARY work is all too familiar to the masses. Farmers have always relied on seasonal workers to plough the fields and pick the crops. Companies have been hiring temps to answer the phones and do the filing for as long as anyone can remember. Now a new group of people are experiencing the joys of the flexible economy: the managerial elite. The practice of appointing interim bosses actually originated in Europe some years ago as a way of coping with the continent&#8217;s rigid employment laws. But European companies were always as discreet about the practice as possible. Now the habit has reached the United States, and Americans are doing what they do naturally: shouting about it from the rooftops. No with-it company can be taken seriously without a &#8220;flexible boardroom&#8221; and a &#8220;just-in-time talent pipeline&#8221;. ...]]></description>
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<title>UPI NewsTrack Business</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ U.S. markets close mixed Tuesday ... Google jumps into phone business ... Foreign technicians taking British jobs ... Credit Suisse sued for predatory lending ... News from United Press International.]]></description>
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<title>Grain futures mixed Tuesday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CHICAGO, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Grain futures finished mixed on the Chicago Board of Trade Tuesday as winter weather kept oil prices high and the dollar index ended the day dead even.]]></description>
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<title>Crude oil prices settle down Tuesday</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Crude-oil-prices-settle-down-Tuesday/UPI-93801262707275/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Crude oil prices settled down below $81 per barrel Tuesday after climbing for nine consecutive trading sessions.]]></description>
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<title>Auto sales showed promise in December</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Auto-sales-showed-promise-in-December/UPI-43691262735239/</link>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Ford Motor Co, Subaru of America Inc. and Hyundai said sales soared in December, compared to December 2008, when U.S. sales were in a serious slump.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Raising-fees-works-for-Visa/UPI-53041262734390/">
<title>Raising fees works for Visa</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Raising-fees-works-for-Visa/UPI-53041262734390/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  U.S. credit card company Visa has gained market share through an upside down system of raising fees, a former chief executive officer said.]]></description>
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<title>Survey: Job satisfaction in a slump</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Survey-Job-satisfaction-in-a-slump/UPI-34301262733792/</link>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  U.S. workers through good times and bad have grown increasingly dissatisfied with their jobs, a private research group said Tuesday.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/China-warns-US-to-cancel-Taiwan-arms/UPI-31741262733695/">
<title>China warns U.S. to cancel Taiwan arms</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/China-warns-US-to-cancel-Taiwan-arms/UPI-31741262733695/</link>
<description><![CDATA[BEIJING, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  In the latest sign of deteriorating ties, China has warned the United States to halt an arms sale to Taiwan or face severe consequences.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Anthrax-false-alarm-disrupts-Alabama/UPI-42701262733489/">
<title>Anthrax false alarm disrupts Alabama</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Anthrax-false-alarm-disrupts-Alabama/UPI-42701262733489/</link>
<description><![CDATA[BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Anthrax scares disrupted government operations across cities in Alabama as federal authorities checked substances sent to senators and members of Congress and found it was mostly fructose.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Leaving-Iraq-Logistics-move-staggering/UPI-25521262732688/">
<title>Leaving Iraq: Logistics move &#x27;staggering&#x27;</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Leaving-Iraq-Logistics-move-staggering/UPI-25521262732688/</link>
<description><![CDATA[BAGHDAD, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  As the "coalition of the willing" slips into history and morphs into U.S. Forces-Iraq, the military prepares for the final phase of the massive logistical operation to withdraw U.S. forces and their war machine, even the scrap, from Iraq.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/China-buys-into-Canadian-tar-sands-exploitation-project/UPI-22041262732184/">
<title>China buys into Canadian tar sands exploitation project</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/China-buys-into-Canadian-tar-sands-exploitation-project/UPI-22041262732184/</link>
<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Canada and China have signed a deal that will see PetroChina, the market arm of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., investing $1.7 billion in two Canadian tar-sands deposits in Alberta.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Ram-on-its-own-confuses-auto-analysts/UPI-18731262731351/">
<title>Ram on its own confuses auto analysts</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Ram-on-its-own-confuses-auto-analysts/UPI-18731262731351/</link>
<description><![CDATA[AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Automobile market analysts said it was hard to find the logic in U.S. automaker Chrysler Group's plan to separate Dodge and Ram products.]]></description>
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<title>U.S. markets close mixed Tuesday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  U.S. markets closed mixed Tuesday on mixed data, as factory orders grew in November but pending home sales dropped.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Elusys-gets-new-BARDA-funding/UPI-83361262727236/">
<title>Elusys gets new BARDA funding</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Elusys-gets-new-BARDA-funding/UPI-83361262727236/</link>
<description><![CDATA[PINE BROOK, N.J., Jan. 5 (UPI) --  The U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has selected Elusys Therapeutics to continue development of its anthrax threat countermeasure.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/ULA-to-support-WGS-4-with-launch-services/UPI-32421262727181/">
<title>ULA to support WGS-4 with launch services</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/ULA-to-support-WGS-4-with-launch-services/UPI-32421262727181/</link>
<description><![CDATA[DENVER, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  The United Launch Alliance has received a contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for a satellite launch designed to support military communications.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/GD-to-deliver-new-M1A1-order-to-Iraq/UPI-16121262727117/">
<title>GD to deliver new M1A1 order to Iraq</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/GD-to-deliver-new-M1A1-order-to-Iraq/UPI-16121262727117/</link>
<description><![CDATA[STERLING HEIGHTS, Mich., Jan. 5 (UPI) --  General Dynamics has received a contract to provide Iraq with next-generation tanks to support operations in urban warfare environments.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/NG-announces-corporate-relocation/UPI-51301262727076/">
<title>NG announces corporate relocation</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/NG-announces-corporate-relocation/UPI-51301262727076/</link>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Defense contractor Northrop Grumman said Monday it is scouting for possible sites in the Washington region to relocate its corporate offices from Los Angeles. ]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Aerojet-to-deliver-warheads-for-missiles/UPI-31491262726967/">
<title>Aerojet to deliver warheads for missiles</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/Aerojet-to-deliver-warheads-for-missiles/UPI-31491262726967/</link>
<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Aerojet has been contracted to support a U.S. Navy aerial threat long-range protection missile system program with its warhead technologies.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/NG-Army-have-EMIEMC-testing-success/UPI-27751262726931/">
<title>NG, Army have EMI/EMC testing success</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2010/01/05/NG-Army-have-EMIEMC-testing-success/UPI-27751262726931/</link>
<description><![CDATA[EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Northrop Grumman announced a milestone in its development of an airborne signal intelligence system for the U.S. Army following successful testing.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Great-Lakes-shipping-at-low-tide/UPI-75951262725451/">
<title>Great Lakes shipping at low tide</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Great-Lakes-shipping-at-low-tide/UPI-75951262725451/</link>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  The recession hit Great Lakes shipping so hard in 2009 that some tankers never left their home berths, a shipping trade group said.]]></description>
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<title>Google jumps into phone business </title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Google-jumps-into-phone-business/UPI-25441262724587/</link>
<description><![CDATA[MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 5 (UPI) --  U.S. Internet giant Google launched its Nexus One cell phone Tuesday, a light, thin phone based on Android software it will use to toss elbows at the iPhone.]]></description>
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<title>Foreign technicians taking British jobs</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Foreign-technicians-taking-British-jobs/UPI-62191262723811/</link>
<description><![CDATA[LONDON, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  A job recruitment expert says a policy allowing foreign specialists to work in Britain is being abused by companies to bring in lower-level technicians.]]></description>
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<title>Study: State spending is dropping</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Study-State-spending-is-dropping/UPI-69471262721385/</link>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Forty-two states from coast to coast cut their general budgets by a combined $31.6 billion in 2009, a national study found.]]></description>
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<title>Shoppers ignored cold last week</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Shoppers-ignored-cold-last-week/UPI-12641262720864/</link>
<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  Retail sales in the United States rose 2.5 percent from a year ago in the week ending Jan. 2, the International Council of Shopping Centers-USB reported.]]></description>
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<title>Poll: Canadians refocus on debt reduction</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Poll-Canadians-refocus-on-debt-reduction/UPI-59971262720089/</link>
<description><![CDATA[WATERLOO, Ontario, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  A poll of Canadian investors found a five-year high in the number focusing on paying down debt at the beginning of the year, Manulife Financial said Tuesday.]]></description>
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<title>Credit Suisse sued for predatory lending</title>
<link>http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/01/05/Credit-Suisse-sued-for-predatory-lending/UPI-48551262718681/</link>
<description><![CDATA[BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 5 (UPI) --  A lawsuit filed in Idaho alleges Credit Suisse engaged in predatory lending so loans would fail, so it could take over the properties, court papers show.]]></description>
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