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  • Oil pushes ever higher
    Price of litre of petrol tops £1 for first time in UK as oil surges on a North Sea storm. By Graeme Wearden.

  • Dollar hits 26-year low against pound
    The pound climbed to $2.10 for the first time since 1981 today, boosted by speculation that China was preparing to shift its foreign reserves out of dollars. By Graeme Wearden.

  • US gloom weighs on FTSE
    Market report: London shares resumed their downward trek today, knocked by volatile oil prices, a tumbling dollar, jitters around banks and more anxieties on Wall Street. By Katie Allen.

  • Virgin Media hails growth 'turnaround'
    Virgin Media signals that era of upheaval marked by public rows with BSkyB is behind it as the cable TV company posts strongest customer growth in more than a year. By Katie Allen and Chris Tryhorn.

  • National Starch takeover to cost thousands of jobs
    Henkel, the maker of Schwarzkopf hair products, plans to cut thousands of jobs when it completes its £2.7bn acquisition of ICI's National Starch adhesives business early next year. By David Gow.


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