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Future's so bright
Two reasons to be cheerful this week: unemployment rates among graduates have dropped and wages are increasing, according to the What Do Graduates Do?...
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View from a broad
It's been a terrible week for the police. The dreadful loss of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky, the news that conviction rates for rape are at their lowest for 30 years, which can...
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Continent at the crossroads
In Stockholm, a busy executive authorises her annual tax return from her mobile phone. In Paris, a young man orders an official copy of his criminal record from an intern...
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Bird flu: if symptoms persist, consult your stockbroker...
While scientists, politicians and laymen debate the gravity of the bird-flu threat, the financial professionals have got on with their job - telling us what stocks and sh...
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Barometer's strangely sunny view
Feeling prosperous this morning? Family finances on the up? Well you certainly should be, at least according to one orthodox measure - the FTSE 100 index of top UK compan...
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A third of finance chiefs fear pension hole could sink firm
More than a third of finance directors say their company is at risk from its pension scheme, according to a report published yesterday.
A survey by the actuaries Mercer ...
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Inflation falls as petrol prices ease
Britain's inflation rate fell for the first time in over a year as fuel prices eased back from record highs, official figures showed today.
In news that will come as a r...
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Should my daughter open an Isa?
Q My daughter, recently turned 17, has an Alliance & Leicester first saver account, but the interest rate has recently been reduced.
Britannia appears to be offering a ...
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Avoiding avoidance
The growing difficulty of raising taxes in an era of globalisation has been underlined in both Britain and Germany in recent days. Both governments need to reduce their e...
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Call for free condoms to combat spread of HIV in prisons
Prisoners should be supplied with free condoms and given access to a needle-exchange system in an effort to combat soaring rates of hepatitis C and HIV among inmates, a r...
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Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical 
