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| Funding gap for plans of S&P 500 companies almost doubled in 2011 to around $450bn as bond yields dropped |
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| With crucial figures heading for Wall Street, the Treasury is precariously short of seasoned professionals |
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| Cascade of recapitalisations and mergers predicted across the Spanish banking sector following strict new government regulations |
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| Investors in US home mortgage securities will be forced to write down a 'substantial' amount of principal for distressed borrowers as part of a national settlement against US banks |
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| Capitalism works ? and works far better than any other system ? because the discipline of the marketplace keeps greed, folly and incompetence in check, writes Nigel Lawson |
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| The state-owned bank wants to stave off criticism over its failure to meet certain government-set targets on availability of credit for small business |
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| The premise that pension assets are locked up and lying idle has a long pedigree within UK governments |
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| Co-founder of private equity group Doughty Hanson and owner of Nottingham Forest football club is thought to have suffered a heart attack |
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| Japanese and South Korean companies are expected to lead a wave of acquisition activity out of the region this year |
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