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RETAIL & CONSUMER 1:59pm

John Lewis staff share £210m bonus pot

John Lewis store

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Retailer defies high street gloom with 16% profits jump

FINANCIALS 12:19pm

Rift over forcing banks to deal with losses

IASB proposals fail to bridge regulatory disagreement with US

FINANCIALS 8:11am

Goldman poaches M Stanley executive

Kate Richdale to take senior investment banking job

TECHNOLOGY 2:09pm

Icahn muscles in on Dell deal

Activist investor joins opposition to $24bn buyout

FINANCIALS 11:37am

Computer fault angers RBS customers

Overnight hitch blocked access to cash and accounts for few hours

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Richard Waters

Technology groups should face reality over their piles of ‘trapped’ foreign cash, writes Richard Waters

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Aviva slashes payout after £3bn loss

Shares down after insurer follows RSA in cutting dividend

RETAIL & CONSUMER 8:09am

Carrefour profits rise on asset sales

Retailer boosts net profit by €1.2bn for 2012 after unit sell-off

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From MARKETS 10:37am

LSE agrees to take control of LCH

Exchange gains access to swap market with €536m deal

FINANCIALS 2:49pm

Standard Life to pay special dividend

Strategy since demutualisation pays off

TELECOMS 11:47am

Brussels ends probe into telecoms groups

Competition regulator clears operators of collusion

Inside Business Telecoms groups must make the right call
Brussels probes possible telecoms collusion

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Steven Haberman, dean of Cass Business School, discusses business ethics with Della Bradshaw

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A pedestrian checks his mobile handset while passing a Telenor A pedestrian checks his mobile handset while passing a Telenor ASA mobile phone store in Budapest,

©Bloomberg Bangladesh has not ruled out trying to force Telenor to cede control of mobile operator Grameenphone

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The new Concept car 'Viziv' of Japanese car maker Subaru is presented during the media day at the 83rd Geneva International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, 05 March 2013. The Geneva International Motor Show at PALEXPO in Geneva will open its doors to the public from 07 to 17 March 2013 with more than 260 exhibitors presenting more than 130 World and European premieres

©EPA See a slideshow from the Geneva Motor Show 2013, showing carmakers’ latest launches

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Chinese milk vetch flowers bloom as Central Japan Railway Co.'s 700 series Shinkansen bullet train travels past Mount Fuji at sunset in Fuji City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on Friday, April 30, 2010. The Japanese government in April arranged for the state-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation to lend money to U.S. projects to build high-speed links. Central Japan Railway, the operator of Japan's busiest bullet train line, has said that it is interested in bidding for projects in Florida and California.

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