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Inflation data send sterling through $2

The US dollar suffered relentless selling, helping to push sterling above $2 for the first time in almost 15 years and the euro near its all-time high, after high UK inflation data and benign US consumer prices prompted the dollar’s retreat.

GM warns Belgian plant on costs

US carmaker threatens transfer to Asia

T Italia ‘should remain Italian’

Prodi keen to deter foreign suitors

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Tesco to return £3bn to investors

Full-year profit up 20% to £2.7bn

Ukraine leaders take feud to EU

Country’s political crisis worries Brussels

Socialists clash over ‘anti-Sarko’ pact

Dispute over alliance with Bayrou

Student identified as Virginia gunman

University holds memorial for victims

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Expensive defensive stocks

Compared with their bond market peers, investors in US equity markets remain notoriously optimistic in their economic outlook.

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A peace mission for the defender of the CAC40

European comment

The Franco-Spanish battle is expected to reach a climax at Eiffage’s annual meeting when Sacyr will demand five seats on the board.

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Overvalued pound

John Authers

£1 will now buy you more than $2. A rise in sterling was, in itself, wholly justified by the new data in the UK. But health warnings are needed, writes John Authers.

Analysis

Thai economy is hurting as generals scare investors off

Thailand coup

Multinational companies are starting to place greater trust in communist Vietnam than in the nationalist interim government in Bangkok.

ECB steels itself for a leap outside the realm of rates

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An information technology project to set up a single settlement platform for securities holds risks for the European Central Bank.

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Climate change is not a global crisis – that is the problem

Gideon Rachman

Climate change hurts some places but helps others, thereby opening the way for dangerous political conflicts, writes Gideon Rachman.


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