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Jobless total surges to worst in 12 years
The number of people unemployed rises above the two million mark.
- City watchdog warns of 'intensive supervision' under new changes new
- Britain will be only nation still in recession next year
- Rio hires new chairman to take up fight for Chinalco agreement
- French Connection posts £17.4m loss
- King warns EU of danger of caution as crisis mounts
- Hands resigns from top job at Terra Firma
- Debenhams defies the gloom on the high street
Jeremy Warner: Here's one approach to miscreant banks – just break them up
Outlook Time to bring back Glass-Steagall, the legislation introduced in the US in the 1930s to enforce a rigid separation between ordinary commercial banking and the fee-driven inventiveness of investment banking? I'm pleased to see that my once lonely campaign to reinstate this division, abandoned under the Clinton administration in the late 1990s, seems to be attracting a growing following.
- Jeremy Warner: Bank Governor's reverse ferret may be wrong
- David Prosser: Loan insurance is another disgraceful banking scandal
- David Prosser: Barclays battles to avoid the state's embrace
- David Prosser: Bernanke does his best to talk us into a recovery
- Stephen King: The rest of the world still has a lot to learn from the Japanese
China's shopping spree
As Beijing exploits the mayhem in the global economy to pick up a growing list of natural resources bargains, should the West worry it is selling the family silver? Sarah Arnott reports
Market update - 18 March new
The FTSE 100 was 8.5 points behind at 3848.5 while the FTSE 250 fell to 6229.3, down 17.5 points, at around 11.55 am.
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