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HMV suppliers denied credit insurance
New blow to HMV after fears over loan covenant and grim Christmas trading -
Inflation surge piles pressure on Bank
Annual rate shot up to 3.7% last month and markets brace for 0.75-point interest rate rises by end of year- Poor's standard of living 'will continue to fall'
- Rate rise could wreck recovery, economists warn
- Nils Pratley: Bounce shouldn't leave King stumped
- Larry Elliott: We expected bad, but not this bad
- Datablog: UK inflation since 1948
- Inflation: what the experts say
- Interactive: Inflation in the UK
- Q&A: How to beat the rise in inflation
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Barclays fined record £7.7m over investment advice failures
Barclays could face compensation bill of £60m as the FSA says it failed to highlight risks involed with two Aviva funds -
Citigroup returns to profit
Wall Street bank sets aside £15bn to pay salaries and bonuses as it makes it back into the black for the first time since the financial crisis
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Apple announces record profits of $6bn
Shares increase after Apple reports more than 7m iPads sold during Christmas quarter -
Portugal premier 'begged Merkel for help'
Reports of a difficult phone conversation between José Sócrates and the German chancellor have revealed rising tensions within the eurozone -
Chilly end to 2010 for housing market
Rics survey finds sales levels stabilised in December – but inquiries dropped for seventh month in a row and new instructions also fell -
Fancy a pail of coffee? Starbucks thinks so
Richard Adams: Starbucks announces plans to sell bladder-bursting 'Trenta' cup size - holding almost a litre of coffee - in its US outlets -
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