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Nov 2009 11:16:14 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46812000/jpg/_46812811_008223552-1.jpg"/></item><item><title>New Airbus A400M test flight date</title><description>Airbus says its long-delayed A400M military transport aircraft should make its first test flight in early December.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8383212.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8383212.stm</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:54:35 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45206000/jpg/_45206197_78e45737-595f-42f2-9cc1-3c444acc49e3.jpg"/></item><item><title>Bank sues ex-boss over &#163;7m loan</title><description>Australian banker Mike Aynsley is appointed as the new chief executive of Anglo Irish 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case</title><description>The European Commission drops its probe into claims that US chip maker Qualcomm abused its dominant position in the mobile technology market.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8376126.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8376126.stm</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:36:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46791000/jpg/_46791215_004101495-1.jpg"/></item><item><title>Heritage sells oil field stakes</title><description>Heritage Oil agrees to sell its stakes in two Ugandan oil fields to Italy's Eni for $1.5bn (&#163;903.2m).</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8374261.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8374261.stm</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:10:13 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45345000/jpg/_45345094_006481248-1.jpg"/></item><item><title>Eurozone activity 'accelerates'</title><description>Eurozone economic activity rose at its fastest pace in November for two years, according to an influential survey.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8373879.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8373879.stm</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:23:09 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44572000/jpg/_44572602_eurologoafp66jpg.jpg"/></item><item><title>Russia 'is now a criminal state'</title><description>Russia has turned into a "criminal state", according to the man who was once its leading foreign investor.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8372894.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8372894.stm</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:41:54 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46778000/jpg/_46778922_-7.jpg"/></item><item><title>Volkswagen to increase production</title><description>Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car company, plans to invest 26bn euros over the next three years to create new vehicles.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8370852.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8370852.stm</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:14:54 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46767000/jpg/_46767243_-54.jpg"/></item><item><title>ABN Amro gets new Dutch bail-out</title><description>The Dutch government announces it will inject a further 4.4bn euros into bailed-out bank ABN Amro.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8369116.stm</link><guid 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say.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8365828.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8365828.stm</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:18:27 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46748000/jpg/_46748334_-7.jpg"/></item><item><title>Irish bank raises bad debt cost</title><description>Allied Irish Banks increases its bad debt forecast for 2009 by 1bn euros, but says it is returning to profitability.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8365723.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8365723.stm</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:47:58 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45524000/jpg/_45524627_000016236-1.jpg"/></item><item><title>Super-jumbo flights to seat 840</title><description>Budget flights 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&#163;200m</title><description>Telecoms firm Cable &amp; Wireless aims to raise &#163;200m through a bond issue to help finance its split into two separate companies.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8363868.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8363868.stm</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:47:36 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" url="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45461000/jpg/_45461814_000961180-1.jpg"/></item><item><title>Easyjet sees profits drop by 50%</title><description>Annual profits at budget airline Easyjet halve to &#163;54.7m after the rising price of oil pushed up fuel costs.</description><link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/business/8363657.stm</link><guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8363657.stm</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:18:06 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><media:thumbnail width="66" height="49" 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