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FT.com - Financial Markets News
- September stock surge extends into fourth session
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:36:54 GMT
Global Market Overview: Improving economic data over the past few days encourage a shift into plays on global growth, with stocks and metals prices move higher as currencies remain relatively stable
- FTSE 100 back over 5,450-point mark
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:07:12 GMT
Hopes for fresh bid activity keep London?s rally on course, with Cable Wireless Worldwide linked to interest from Singapore Telecom
- Indian stocks stand out as Asian rally continues
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:48:32 GMT
Indian stocks surge to their highest level in more than two-and-a-half years as global recovery hopes help Asian markets continued their unbroken run of positive sessions in September
BBC Business News
- Wheat worries after Russia fires
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:13:22 GMT
Poor grain harvests around the world, and especially in Russia, have seen a steady rise in prices
- Bank customers in 'dire poverty'
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:35:57 GMT
Banks are accused of leaving some customers in "dire poverty" after taking money out of their accounts without permission.
BBC News
- 'Disgust' over son's killer term
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:37:57 GMT
A Flintshire mother calls for tougher sentences for so-called "one-punch killers" after her son's attacker was jailed for 40 months for manslaughter.
- Vicar jailed for sham marriages
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:31:23 GMT
A Sussex vicar found guilty of carrying out hundreds of sham marriages is jailed for four years.
- NI school evacuated in bomb alert
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:20:44 GMT
A primary school is closed in Antrim after an explosive device is found by an eight-year-old pupil and carried into a classroom.