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- Headlam sees challenge meeting original goals
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LONDON (Reuters) - Flooring distributor Headlam Group reported a 1.7 percent rise in first-half profit on Monday and said it might find it tough to hit its targets for 2008.
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- House prices fall 5.3 pct in August
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LONDON (Reuters) - House prices fell for an 11th straight month in August to stand 5.3 percent lower than a year earlier, a survey by property consultants Hometrack showed on Monday.
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- FT says media misinterpret Darling comment
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The media wrongly gave the impression that the Chancellor was predicting the deepest recession in 60 years, the Financial Times said on Monday, slightly lifting the battered sterling.
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- The Republican National Convention
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Daily dispatches from St PaulTHE most important feature of this year’s Republican convention is not its location, purpose or personalities. It is timing: for the first time in decades, the two parties convene in successive weeks. While most people celebrate the Labour Day holiday at home, the journalist class will arrive in St. Paul barely having recovered from Denver: the heat, the death-march-length walk from the security perimeter to the Pepsi Centre, the lack of seats, the alcohol….
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- Oil prices rise as Gustav looms
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Oil prices gain more than $1 after energy firms shut down almost all oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico….
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- House prices fall 5.3 pct y/y in Aug
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LONDON (Reuters) - House prices fell for an 11th straight month in August to stand 5.3 percent lower than a year earlier, a survey by property consultants Hometrack showed on Monday.
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- Manufacturers’ confidence falls in Q3
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LONDON (Reuters) - Manufacturers are braced for a sharp fall in orders and weaker profit margins as a stagnant economy takes its toll, a survey by the Engineering Employers Federation showed on Monday.
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- Commerzbank to buy Dresdner
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Commerzbank agreed to buy Dresdner Bank from Allianz on Sunday in a $14.5 billion (8 billion pounds) all-German deal that will break the country’s banking mould and cost 9,000 jobs.
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- Pound tumbles on concerns about economy
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TOKYO (Reuters) - The pound fell versus the dollar to its lowest level in more than two years and slid to a record low against the euro on Monday, after Chancellor Alistair Darling said the country’s economic downturn might be the worst in 60 years.
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- Bank says will not extend special liquidity scheme
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LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England said on Sunday it had no plans to extend an innovative six-month scheme designed to ease strains in the mortgage market.
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- Oil rises on storm fears
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Oil rose above $116 a barrel on Monday, as a quarter of U.S. crude production was shuttered because of Hurricane Gustav, while Asian stocks were stung by slumping technology shares.
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- Oil gains as Gustav shuts U.S. output
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PERTH (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than $1 on Monday after energy firms in the U.S. Gulf shut down nearly all offshore oil output and a host of flood-prone coastal refineries ahead of Hurricane Gustav, the biggest threat since 2005’s devastating Katrina.
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- Gold steady after piggybacking on oil gains
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold was trading largely unchanged on Monday, after gaining $5 early in the day on the back of oil-led gains ahead of Hurricane Gustav, but volumes will likely remain low because of a U.S. holiday.
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- Lehman in talks with KDB to raise billions
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Lehman Brothers Holdings has “intensified” talks with Korea Development Bank (KDB) to raise as much as $6 billion (3.33 billion pounds) in a share sale that could be concluded this week, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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- Oil tops $117 as hurricane shuts U.S. Gulf production
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PERTH (Reuters) - Oil rose nearly $2 to over $117 on Monday as U.S. energy companies raced to shut down offshore oil production and flood-prone refineries in the Gulf Coast ahead of Hurricane Gustav, which is evoking memories of 2005’s devastating Hurricane Katrina.
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- Sterling slides on worries about economy
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Sterling fell versus the dollar to its lowest level in more than two years and slid to a record low against the euro on Monday, after comments by Britain’s finance minister highlighted the UK economy’s weakness.
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- Gold bounces on oil-led buying
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold advanced on Monday, tracking a gain of more than $1 in crude oil as Hurricane Gustav took aim at a swath of U.S. oilfields and refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.
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- Two million Britons juggle jobs and start-up hopes
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LONDON (Reuters) - More than two million Britons who are in permanent employment are at the same time trying to turn their favourite hobby into a business, according to a new survey released on Monday.
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- Housing market ‘needs more help’
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Government must take “decisive action” to help the housing market, say the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors….
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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- Manufacturing jobs ‘now at risk’
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An employers group urges the government to tackle economic concerns “head on” to reduce the impact on manufacturing jobs….
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31 August, 2008| massmedia |
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