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Nationwide profits fall more than 60%

Chief executive of country's biggest building society warns rising unemployment will hit house prices and attacks regulatory changes Nationwide Building Society today attacked regulatory changes which it warned could impede the...

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Indonesia moves on tax loophole

by Chaim Estulin and Phoebe Leung This article is provided to FT.com readers by Debtwire—the most informed news service available for financial professionals in fixed income markets across the world. www.debtwire.com...

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Skills shortage dents green credentials

• Shortage threatens low-carbon targets, argues business group • Gap comes as demand for scientists and engineers increasing Britain lacks the skills or training facilities to make the successful transition to a low-carbon...

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Royal Mint mines demand for gold

The Royal Mint has more than quadrupled its production of gold coins in recent months, as the record price of the metal has caused demand to soar. Its output of gold coins during July, August and September rose to 32,736...

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Cuts will cost British universities their international reputations

Financial crisis beckons as public spending cuts loom and universities face intense competition from overseas Universities are facing a new funding crisis with looming public spending cuts and intense competition from overseas,...

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Homeward bound

Kabir Audu has returned to Nigeria after years of working on Wall Street Kabir Audu is a Nigerian millionaire. Kabir and his friend Tunji Abdul are living proof of Nigeria's mass migration homeward. It will harvest its own...

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Deflation: could it happen here?

Britain's CPI is only higher because of the sharp fall in the pound over the past 18 months Few people are talking about deflation in Britain any more after this week's rise in the consumer price index inflation rate to 1.5% ....

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Gordon Brown's financial delusions will cost Britain dear

Gordon Brown The PM still won't admit that too much state spending is economically destructive, says Jeremy Warner. In the dying days of Gordon Brown's Government, this ancient saw seems truer than ever. Everyone, that is,...

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The MPC members won't agree until the UK's growing pains start to abate

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee split three ways when it last voted on policy on November 5. David Miles, the recent recruit from the City of London, wanted to print an additional £40bn. The UK central bank's...

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Riskier high-yield debt draws attention

Investors who fear that the seven-month rally in investment-grade corporate bonds may be over are now moving their money into riskier high-yield bond funds, according to advisers. With the Bank of England base rate unchanged at...

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