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    <description>Goldman Sachs has upgraded its forecast for China’s economic growth, predicting it will overtake America to become the world’s biggest economy in 2027 — 14 years earlier than expected</description>
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    <description>Some of Scotland's players were "too thick" to understand George Burley's coaching methods, according to the sacked manager's nephew, Craig</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Analysis:&lt;/strong&gt; As Barack Obama visits Beijing, Goldman Sachs' expert on emerging markets argues London  -  rather than New York  -  is uniquely poised to benefit from China's boom</description>
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    <description>A new lurch downwards in the value of the ailing dollar and news of better-than-expected GDP in Japan signalled another rush for commodities, such as metals and oil and gold</description>
    <dc:date>2009-11-16T13:25:17Z</dc:date>
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    <description>The global economy showed further signs of health today as unemployment in Japan fell and stock markets in Asia surged on news that the US is out of recession</description>
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    <description>Lord Mandelson today urged Japan to ease restrictions on foreign investment and expressed hope in the new government’s “internationalist stance”</description>
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    <description>Struggling fashion house French Connection has given up on its plan to be big in Japan — it is shutting all of its stores in the country</description>
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    <description>The British Horseracing Authority's chief executive Nic Coward has reiterated his frustration that bookmakers are not paying enough back to the sport</description>
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    <description>Japanese prices fell at their fastest rate in August, prompting fears that the country’s fragile economic recovery could be put at risk because of deflation</description>
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    <description>Japan's AIM-listed provider of "love hotels", which rents out rooms by the hour, said it is flourishing despite the recession</description>
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    <description>You can’t put a price on love: while the Japanese economy saw its worst performance on record in the first quarter of this year, the country’s AIM-listed provider of “love hotels”, which rents out rooms by the hour, said it is flourishing despite the recession</description>
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    <description>Japan's central bank upgraded its outlook on the world’s second-largest economy and held interest rates at just 0.1%.</description>
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    <description>Unemployment in Japan surged to a post-war high in July and prices fell at a record pace, threatening to undermine a nascent recovery for the world’s second-largest economy</description>
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    <description>Exports from Japan tumbled last month as an emerging rebound in global demand lost steam</description>
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    <description>Japan emerged from its deepest recession since the Second World War but it was not enough to stop a vicious slump in global stock markets and the price of oil</description>
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    <description>Could the worst be over for ITV? Plummeting advertising revenues pushed the broadcaster to a half-year loss of £105 million yesterday, but the City has today turned more bullish about its prospects</description>
    <dc:date>2009-08-07T08:12:23Z</dc:date>
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    <description>Fresh worries about the recovery of the global economies burst out with fears that Japan's fightback was faltering with massive deflation</description>
    <dc:date>2009-06-26T08:34:16Z</dc:date>
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    <description>The race is on to see which major industrial economy exits the recession first as Japan joined the UK in publishing potential "green shoot" data</description>
    <dc:date>2009-06-16T07:19:30Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Australia bucks global trends with first-quarter growth</title>
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    <description>The Australian economy unexpectedly grew in the first quarter of the year as it avoided the global recession</description>
    <dc:date>2009-06-03T08:13:13Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Japan 'love hotels' owner seeks £50m for growth</title>
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    <description>Japan Leisure Hotels, the euphemistically named firm that rents out rooms by the hour, wants to raise up to £50 million from investors to fund rapid expansion</description>
    <dc:date>2009-05-18T08:32:15Z</dc:date>
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    <title>We're running out of options, but this one just might break the credit-markets logjam</title>
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    <description>What is it with macroeconomists? You think you understand how the economy works and then they  come up with some subtle new monetary operation called "quantitative easing"</description>
    <dc:date>2009-03-05T09:18:43Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Japan's record trade gap as exports dive</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Economics: &lt;/strong&gt; The recession in Japan is deepening rapidly with exports to the US halving in January</description>
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    <title>Japan GDP shrinks by most in 35 years</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Economics: &lt;/strong&gt;Japan's economy, battling its worst downturn since the oil crisis of 1974, shrank last quarter by the most in 35 years</description>
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    <title>Japan sees its economy shrink 3.3 per cent</title>
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    <description>Japan has sunk into its worst recession since the oil crisis of the Seventies with its economy contracting by 3.3 per cent in the final quarter of last year</description>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Economics: &lt;/strong&gt; Japan has been battered by a tidal wave of dismal economic news as it faced up to its worst post-war recession</description>
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    <title>Shares find favour as markets get steadier</title>
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    <description>&lt;strong&gt;Investment:&lt;/strong&gt; Investors are dipping their toes back into shares as global stock markets show signs of stabilising</description>
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    <description>Japan's exports dived by the most on record in November as demand for cars and electronics collapsed</description>
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    <description>&lt;b&gt;Banking: &lt;/b&gt;Japan's second-largest bank Mizuho Financial Group says its full-year profit will slump 55% due to bad loans and losses on the markets</description>
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