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Last Updated: Wednesday, 18 April 2007, 09:50 GMT 10:50 UK
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Dutch brewers, including Heineken and Grolsch, are fined 273.7m euros by EU regulators for price fixing.

The UK pound climbs well past the $2-mark, surging to a 26-year high against the troubled US currency.
Sony's game unit is to cut its European workforce, but says this is unrelated to sales of the Playstation 3.

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