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Page last updated at 13:27 GMT, Wednesday, 7 January 2009

M&S Simply Food store
M&S to close stores and cut jobs
Marks and Spencer says it plans to close 25 Simply Food stores and two of its regular stores, and cut 1,230 jobs.
Peston: No ordinary downturn
Blacks Leisure in profits alert
Slowdown helps takeaway profit

Volvo dealership UK car sales fall to 12-year-low
UK car sales in 2008 are 11.3% lower than they had been in 2007, following a 21.2% drop in December.

London skyline Hundreds to lose jobs at Barclays
Hundreds of IT workers for Barclays Bank are expected to lose their jobs following a review, the bank announces.


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Clip from commercial Bosses rap 'sickie' TV commercial

Karl Lagerfeld: Cutting words

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Gold bars
Solid gold returns?
Take a look at what's happened to key commodity prices over the past few months.
City workers Layoff payoff
The financial costs of making redundancies
£10 note Keen interest
The rates roulette for savers and borrowers
Chipo Itching to work
The asylum-seeking accountant living on £35 a week

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Bank of America in Chinese sale
German billionaire kills himself
Alcoa cuts 13,500 workers' jobs
House prices 'fell 15.9% in 2008'
Sales fall at Next and Debenhams
Final Woolworths stores close
Aer Lingus cool on Ryanair offer
Porsche takes majority VW stake

YOUR MONEY
Mortgage rationing gets tougher
State mortgage help widened
Gas price cuts 'likely in spring'
Cameron makes savings tax pledge
ECONOMY
Euro weakens on rate cut evidence
Euro inflation hits two-year low
Obama says US economy 'very sick'
UK short-selling ban to be lifted
COMPANIES
Toyota shuts plants for 11 days
French TV ditches prime-time ads
Areva wins Niger uranium licence

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Poster reading "stealing is a sin" Gas dispute
How dependent is Europe on Russian gas?
White vinyl single coming off the presses at the Portalspace factory in Hayes, Middlesex Vintage vinyl
The 7 inch single is still making music after 60 years
Blackpool beach and tower Seaside mission
Grand but faded, Blackpool strives to revive its fortunes

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YOUR TAX AND BENEFITS

 
LIFE @ WORK

 

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THE DOWNTURN
Downturn logo Full coverage of the UK economy, and tips on surviving the crisis

MARKET DATA - 13:28 UK

FTSE 100
4572.80down
 -66.12 -1.43%
Dax
4993.72down
 -32.59 -0.65%
Cac 40
3395.48down
 -0.74 -0.02%
Dow Jones
9015.10up
 62.21 0.69%
Nasdaq
1652.38up
 24.35 1.50%
BBC Global 30
5307.39down
 -86.01 -1.59%
Data delayed by at least 15 minutes
open Marketwatch ticker
OTHER TOP BUSINESS STORIES
Loan firm set to cut 1,000 jobs
Home diners boost takeaway profit
Downloads boost 2008 single sales
India IT boss quits over scandal
Apprenticeship boost in downturn
Germany sees higher jobless total
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