Siobhan Kennedy
UK’s economic growth powered by consumer spending
While official figures show Britain’s economy grew in the last quarter of 2014, there are reasons why we shouldn’t celebrate just jet.
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Budget 2015: austerity squeeze to end a year early
George Osborne says more optimistic growth and borrowing forecasts, boosted by the falling price of oil, mean the squeeze on public spending can end a year earlier than predicted.
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Siobhan Kennedy
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Paul Mason
The cuckoo clock chimes for the Swiss franc
If it sounds like a multiplayer 3D chess game, then that’s what it really is. The technical term for it is currency war.
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Siobhan Kennedy
This is 2014. Equal pay for women isn’t ‘anti-business’
Why, 46 years on from a famous equal pay protest by women at Ford in Daghenham, do women in the UK still earn 81p for every male £1?
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Paul Mason
Autumn statement: Osborne’s promises and reality – my analysis
Had Osborne’s 2010 predictions actually happened, the deficit would be small, the debt falling, and the much vaunted rebalancing of the economy would have taken place.
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Cameron warns of looming ‘global economic disaster’
Prime Minister David Cameron gives a bleak assessment of the global economy and warns that the eurozone could be on the brink of recession.
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Are we on the verge of another eurozone crisis?
Europe is close to slipping back into recession, the International Monetary Fund warns, reigniting fears of a eurozone crisis, writes Helia Ebrahimi.
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Gordon Brown’s vision for a Scottish utopia
His impassioned speeches towards the end of Scotland’s referendum campaigning have been credited with securing a victory for no now Gordon Brown has set out his vision for Scotland. So what is it?
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Bigger than Amazon and eBay, Alibaba set to float
China’s e-commerce behemoth Alibaba handles most of the country’s online shopping. As it is joins the US stock market, it has set its sights on expansion in the USA and Europe.
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Does laptop prove Islamic State wants a dirty bomb?
A laptop with details of how to build a dirty bomb has been found in Syria. One expert tells Channel 4 News that such an attack could be “easier than flying a plane into a tall building”.
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IMF: UK growth ‘to outstrip other leading economies’
The International Monetary fund says UK GDP will rise by 3.2 per cent this year after revising its forecast upward for the fourth time in a row.
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Israel arrests suspects for Palestinian teenager killing
Israel arrests six Jewish suspects over the alleged abduction and killing of a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, a security source says.
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Not so sauer: is Germany the new optimist of Europe?
With unemployment at its lowest since reunification, a growing economy and a chance of winning the football World Cup, a new study suggests Germany is at its most optimistic in history.
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Vietnam: death in a quiet country
Attacks on foreign-owned businesses are rare in Vietnam. Is there more behind the violence than just anti-Chinese sentiment?
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Pfizer takeover ‘could delay drug research’
US drug company Pfizer hints that it could raise its £63bn takeover offer, but AstraZeneca says that combining the two companies could delay drug research and development.
