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Thursday, 29 January 1998
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- Market Report: Taking Stock
- PEOPLE & BUSINESS
- BDB launch date in doubt as Grabiner move is delayed
- BOC finally sells Ohmeda healthcare division for pounds 640m
- Outlook: Ionica rings the changes
- MPs attack Nomura interest in Energy
- The Investment Column: Rubicon allays the market's fears
- Clash of views on global economy kicks off world forum
- Eddie George warns on EMU suitability of France and Italy
- Treasury offered face-saving ISA deal
- United Utilities shares launch
- Playford steps aside in wide-ranging Ionica shake-up
- Brazilian ex-minister may be ousted from investment trust
- The Investment Column: Smith's strategy looks sound
- Tie Rack shares at five-year low as it warns on profits
- Outlook: Prescott's fast track to a railway wilderness
- The Investment Column: BOC is still left with problems
- Market Report: Blue chips' remarkable run carries Footsie to fresh heights
- Morgan Stanley tops European deals league
- Outlook: Is EMU orthodoxy too good to be true?
- Market Report: Taking Stock
- PEOPLE & BUSINESS
- Investment and exports suffer from strong pound
- Sun Life of Canada flotation to benefit UK policyholders
- CBI launches broadside against tax plans
- London & Manchester hit by record pounds 525,000 mis-selling fine
- Morgan Grenfell name wins partial reprieve
- The answer to the productivity puzzle: size is everything
- Capital Radio to challenge MMC block on its bid for Virgin
- Outlook: Businesses' share of the tax burden
- Market Report: Footsie hits a new high despite some late selling
- Northern Rock pours cold water on bid rumours
- M&S hit by Asian turmoil
- Accountants under fire
- Company law review may bring boardroom crackdown
- Astec's investors protest at buyout plan
- Brussels fines VW pounds 68m
- GGT accepts pounds 143m bid from Omnicom
- Seagram harbours doubts over Allied deal
- The Investment Column: Misys rides the software boom
- Nomura bid for Energy would spark huge executive windfalls
- Outlook: Labour should leave company law alone
- Diageo starts auction to get highest price for Dewar's
- Airbus in talks over orders with S Korean airline
- The Investment Column: Northern Rock stays a solid bet
- Tesco revives top brand price battle
- Outlook: US Goliath faces Astec investors
- The Investment Column: A test of the M&S mettle
Obituaries
- Obituary: Geoffrey Trease
- Obituary: Geoffrey Trease
- Law Report: 30 January 1998: Inspector has inquisitorial burden at hearing
- Obituary: Harry Hambling
- Obituary: Tom Forster
- Obituary: Professor Andrew Rutherford
- Obituary: Cecil Kennedy
- Law Report: 29 January 1998: Increase in beer duty did not breach EC treaty
- Obituary: Sally Purcell
- Obituary: Professor Andrew Rutherford
Voices
Voices RSS Feed - click to grab the feed- Letter: Abortion debates
- Letter: Prescott's task
- Letter: Bubbly baths
- Letter: Learning to read
- Letter: Bubbly baths
- Letter: Endless loans
- Tony's backing is all that Robin really needs
- The most misogynistic film ever - or just a visceral slice of real life?
- Letter: Price of brown fields
- Letter: In the 1951 dome
- Letter: Abortion debates
- Letter: Learning to read
- Insults, soundbites, repetition, clubbiness, obfuscation ...
- Letter: Cambodia in peril
- Letter: Prescott's task
- Lament the lyricist's dreams of glory, and don't put your hopes on the stage
- Leading Article: Discovering the woeful truth is part of the peace process
- Letter: Town vs country
- You can keep the River Cafe - I'll take a pantomime dame any day of the week
- Letter: Ramadan moon
- Letter: Heroic dockers
- Europe may speak English, but it remains foreign
- Letter: Bad debts for arms
- Letter: Hughes's Ovid
- Leading Article: Divided by the Channel, but increasingly united by everything else
- Letter: Town vs country
- Letter: `Boring' politics
- Letter: Nursing crisis
- Interview: John Bird: From the street to City Hall: the first mayor of London?
- Letter: Caring for disabled
- Yes, Zippergate is unedifying - but have you heard the latest joke...
- 1 Breaking the Silence: In the reality of occupation, there are no Palestinian civilians – only potential terrorists
- 2 Charles Saatchi accepts caution for assault over incident in Scott’s restaurant when he put his hands on throat of wife Nigella Lawson
- 3 Anatomy of a waiter: Service staff spill the secrets of their trade
- 4 Exclusive: Cristiano Ronaldo advised to stay at Real Madrid for another 18 months before making possible switch to Manchester United
- 5 Iran to send 4,000 troops to aid President Assad forces in Syria
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