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Page last updated at 21:23 GMT, Tuesday, 29 December 2009

Job centre in Glasgow
Unemployment 'will peak at 2.8m'
Unemployment will reach 2.8 million in 2010, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Long-term jobless 'doubles'
UK jobless rise continues to slow
BBC UK jobs tracker

London Stock Exchange sign, Patenoster Square, London London firms raise record £82.5bn
Companies listed on the London Stock Exchange have raised a record £82.5bn from share issues in 2009.

Silvio Berlusconi Italian amnesty raises 95bn euros
Beating forecasts, Italy's tax amnesty raised 95bn euros (£86bn; $137bn), the country's Finance Ministry says


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Angela Merkel Germany heading for record debt
A woman carrying a cardboard box What is left of Lehman Brothers?

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Nikkei Index
The 75% shares drop
It's 20 years since Japan's Nikkei peaked at 38,957 - has it finally turned the corner?
Which way for commodities?
Can the stock market rally last?
US President Barack Obama Looking back
The World Service's Martin Webber reviews 2009
Gold bars Oil and food
What will commodity prices do in 2010?
Fans at a match in Bangkok Eastern promise
The Premier League looks to cash in on Asia

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New year strikes for rail workers
Council's staff forego pay rise

US mortgage chiefs may get $6m
Bargains 'less likely this year'
Iran 'to ban' defaced banknotes
US Senate passes key health bill
US curbs African trade benefits
Madoff moved to prison hospital
Venezuela in threat to carmakers
Greece votes for big budget cuts
Sharp fall in US new home sales

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Stephanie Flanders Stephanomics
GDP: Not quite the Christmas present we were after
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'If I don't get a bonus, then I will pay less tax '
Shatrughan Sah (Photo: Prashant Ravi) Bleak future
Remote Indian village feels knock-on from Dubai crisis
OTHER TOP STORIES
Russia and Ukraine sign oil deal
Post-Christmas sales wow shoppers
US home prices up for fifth month
Disaster damage 'decline' in 2009
Secret mobile phone codes cracked
Oil price rise nears $80 a barrel
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