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		<title>Where&#8217;s the export recovery gone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The cheap pound should have started making its impact by now. And yet the latest trade figures don’t bring even a hint of promise.
Mind you, there are those who say the euro is the currency that is about to suffer. Parity with the dollar is on the cards.
Here is a question for you. If the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/uk-economy/wheres-the-export-recovery-gone/</link>
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		<title>House prices: is the pendulum swinging in favour of buyers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last month was a tricky one for the housing market. Both the Nationwide and Halifax had prices down. The Bank of England’s latest data on mortgage approvals showed a sharp drop, and Hometrack was full of negativity sentiments.
But then again, you can’t read much into one month’s worth of data.
The snow may have been the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/house-prices/house-prices-is-the-pendulum-swinging-in-favour-of-buyers/</link>
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		<title>Monday’s digest &#8211; China looks to welfare, Manchester United looks at leverage, and the BCC looks at the UK’s tax on jobs.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s all kicking off in China. Maybe at last the economy behind the Great Wall is starting to see things the Western way.
Well, at least partially, anyway.
It was the time of the annual state of the nation address from China’s Premier, Wen Jiabao.
As you know, the problem in China is that the economy produces more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/uk-economy/monday%e2%80%99s-digest-china-looks-to-welfare-manchester-united-looks-at-leverage-and-the-bcc-looks-at-the-uk%e2%80%99s-tax-on-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Pound sits centre-stage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper-land has turned its attention to the cheap pound.
Yesterday and today, a string of articles looked at the cheap pound and gave us the benefit of their authors’ ponderings.
Here is a summary of what they say, plus a few penn’orth of thought of our own.
The Telegraph’s Liam Halligan is not known for his cheerfulness, At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/uncategorized/pound-sits-centre-stage/</link>
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		<title>Is boom and bust a good thing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Bank of England didn’t surprise anyone and stood pat.
Interest rates remained at their record, rock bottom low. Not only is the UK rate of interest half a per cent, it has been at that level for a year now.
Warning, warning… some boasting is about to follow. This column predicted zero, or near zero [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/economic-ideas/is-boom-and-bust-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<title>House prices: the February story is complete</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, we told the latest news from the Nationwide and Hometrack on house prices, and the news from the Bank of England on mortgage approvals.
Now the data from the Halifax is in, so here is a summary of what the latest data says.
According to the Halifax, house prices were down 1.5 per cent in February, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/house-prices/house-prices-the-february-story-is-complete/</link>
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		<title>Economic indicators point upwards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, we all know it may not last, but take some pleasure from good news, even if deep down inside we think it will be a transient pleasure.
A string of economic indicators have come in over the last few days, and they all point one way – up.
First off the block was the latest Purchasing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/uk-economy/economic-indicators-point-upwards/</link>
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		<title>Solid oxide fuel cells: they look like batteries, they are hot, and they may solve the fuel crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the doom and gloom floating about at the moment, it is easy to fall into a pit of despair. Let’s face it, there’s a lot that’s wrong with the economy. And with the baby boomers retirement getting closer, it is difficult to see how the economy will cope.
This column has argued over and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/business-news/solid-oxide-fuel-cells-they-look-like-batteries-they-are-hot-and-they-may-solve-the-fuel-crisis/</link>
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		<title>FSA was seduced, but they were not alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Services Authority was seduced. The wicked temptress who undid the FSA’s control was the economic boom. According to its Chairman Lord Adair Turner: “Everyone was seduced by the long boom.”
He was revealing the sordid secret to a Treasury Select Committee.
Maybe John Terry should try a similar line of defence.
Lord Turner said: “We were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/bubbles/fsa-was-seduced-but-they-were-not-alone/</link>
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		<title>UK housing market leaves Europe for dust, or is it the other way round?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yippee, the UK economy may be in the doldrums compared to our cousins in Europe, but the housing market isn’t. At least, that’s the finding of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in its latest report looking at the European housing market.
RICS said: “Low interest rates and reviving economies helped to avoid housing market [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.investmentandbusinessnews.co.uk/house-prices/uk-housing-market-leaves-europe-for-dust-or-is-it-the-other-way-round/</link>
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