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Boeing's dream finally flies

The US aircraft giant has high hopes for its 787 Dreamliner, which took to the skies for the first time yesterday

Inside Business Analysis & Features

Bumper pay deals from a bygone era threaten BA's future

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Simon Calder: Since the no-frills revolution began, the airline's extravagant cost base has been exposed

Cadbury's executives, from left, CFO Andrew Bonfield, Chairman Roger Carr and CEO Todd Stitzer

Chocolate wars: the plight of Cadbury's

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

US food giant Kraft wants to buy Cadbury. So should we sell such a 'British' brand, or is it just another business?

Can electric cars reinvent Britain's motor industry?

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

New models mean new investment, if the UK can win the business. Sarah Arnott reports

Banking on a future overseas?

Sunday, 13 December 2009

The pre-Budget report gave little comfort to the City, where business leaders predict Far East tax regimes could prove a temptation. Judi Bevan reports

High street target of the new Vikings

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Clas Ohlson, the latest Scandinavian retailer to hit these shores, is hoping its Woolies and Ikea hybrid will attract UK shoppers.

Shopping: Non-food spending falls but the online future looks promising

Sunday, 13 December 2009

Britons will spend more than £81bn in the run-up to Christmas this year. But that total is a fall of more than £535m from what the country spent in 2008. According to one research house, this is the first time ever that fourth-quarter spending – which includes the key Christmas trading period – has fallen in cash terms.

Greek lessons for UK debt

Saturday, 12 December 2009

Greece's collapse into a borrowing crisis this week has been swift. As Sarah Arnott reports, it is a precedent that the Chancellor must heed

Rich, poor, or in between? How you will be affected

Thursday, 10 December 2009

Depending on your class, the pre-Budget report was a bonus or a blow. Julian Knight sorts the winners from the losers

Steve Forbes: The agitator working to deliver Forbes to the fourth generation

Thursday, 10 December 2009

The Presidential challenger is now focused on running his publishing empire in the new world, says Stephen Foley

So what should Darling do today?

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Alistair Darling has to ensure that Britain makes it out of recession while tackling the deficit, and helping Labour to win a fourth term. So what is our diverse jury of experts hoping for from the pre-Budget report?

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Hamish McRae: We have a lot to learn from Ireland

The biggest lesson is that, if a country has to impose austerity, do so swiftly

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Mark Steel: Sussex will be desert before the climate deniers accept reality

Many prominent sceptics seem to be in the pay of the energy industry

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Terence Blacker: Governed by the ill wind of deception

There are, it seems, two categories of lying in public life

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