The insurance market Lloyd’s of London is preparing contingency plans for the possibility of the euro collapsing, its chief executive tells a newspaper.

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Lloyd’s ‘plans for euro collapse’

For four market makers backing IPO.

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Facebook Triggered $100M in Losses

Customers have been misled by supermarkets over discounts and multi-buy offers, according to consumer group Which?.

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Supermarkets ‘misled on pricing’

Signals economic, housing-market recovery.

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U.S. Sees Home Sales Jump

Professor Michael Sandel – who has taught political philosophy since 1980 – claims there has been a shift from having a market economy to being a market society, where people are mainly motivated by money.

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VIDEO: Is it wrong to sell an Olympic torch?

The BBC’s John Sudworth meets the Chinese entrepreneurs targeting the world’s biggest mobile phone market.

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VIDEO: Serving China’s app-hungry billion

China’s booming market in mobile-phone apps

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China’s billion phone app market

The expansion of a supermarket and a haulage company in Deeside, Flintshire, will create 120 jobs, with the help of Welsh government financial backing.

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Firms’ expansion creates 120 jobs

Technical glitches and chaotic trading marred the stock debut of Facebook on Friday, disappointing investors and company officials who had planned for a festive first day on the market, people familiar with the matter said. Read full article > >

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Glitches mar Facebook stock debut

No other market debut has matched the frenzy created by Facebook. DealBook’s live blog will be tracking reactions to the company’s I.P.O. throughout the day.

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DealBook: Live Blog: Facebook’s Market Debut

European markets suffer a nervous session with investors unsettled by a downgrade for Spanish banks and the political crisis in Greece.

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Market jitters over eurozone woes

The UK agrees a £50m trade deal to sell British pork to China, the world’s biggest market for pig meat.

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Facebook, the social network that began eight years ago in a Harvard dorm room, will debut Friday on the stock markets having raised $16 billion, making it the third largest initial public offering in U.S. history. Read full article > >

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Facebook’s market debut draws criticism from lawmakers

Facebook prices its shares at $38 each ahead of one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history.

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Float values Facebook at $104bn

Housing groups warn that problems in Britain’s housing market are not being fixed, on the day that figures on new house building are due.

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Housing market ‘not being fixed’