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• BA strike talks end without deal
  Talks between British Airways and Unite aimed at averting strike action by cabin crew break down without agreement.
  10 March 2010, 11:38pm

• Winter insurance claims hit £650m
  Insurers paid out £650m from 335,000 claims made as a result of damage caused by the wintry weather in the UK.
  11 March 2010, 1:07am

• Mexican shakes up world rich list
  Mexican Carlos Slim Huan overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes 'rich list'.
  11 March 2010, 12:01am

• Smaller losses at Northern Rock
  Northern Rock says that it made "good progress" in 2009, after reporting a sharp fall in its annual losses.
  10 March 2010, 10:48am

• US reports record budget deficit
  The US government records a budget deficit of $221bn (£147.6bn) in February - the largest monthly deficit in its history.
  11 March 2010, 12:38am

• Banking fraud 'moves to internet'
  Fraudsters are continuing their switch from traditional card fraud to raiding online bank accounts, research suggests.
  10 March 2010, 11:12am

• Pompey axe 85 jobs to cut costs
  Administrators at Portsmouth FC start to make employees redundant, with 85 people losing their jobs.
  10 March 2010, 8:31pm

• Banks face harsher stress tests
  Further stress-testing of UK banks will take place to ensure they can survive a 'double-dip' recession, regulators say.
  10 March 2010, 7:04pm

• Warning on packaged bank accounts
  Bank accounts which charge fees for extra benefits may be being mis-sold, the Financial Services Authority has warned.
  10 March 2010, 5:52pm

• Photographer Annie Leibovitz snaps up debt rescue deal
  Photographer Annie Leibovitz does a deal with Colony Capital to clear huge debts that meant she may have lost her library of famous pictures.
  9 March 2010, 6:42pm

• Mobile phone that allows boss to snoop
  Mobile technology that could allow prying bosses to monitor every movement of their staff is developed in Japan.
  10 March 2010, 1:53pm

• High flyer
  The extra ordinary life of the man from the Pru
  11 March 2010, 12:56am

• Independent day
  The Independent could be free under a new owner
  11 March 2010, 12:47am

• Bright ideas
  Why intellectual property is not a luxury
  11 March 2010, 12:50am

• The Latin web
  Brazil exploits potential as web use spreads
  11 March 2010, 1:01am

• Robert Peston
  How much stress can the banks take?
  10 March 2010, 9:30am

• Wind power?
  Can you fit a wind turbine in a housing estate?
  10 March 2010, 10:05am

• UK economy 'still growing weakly'
  The UK economy grew by 0.3% in the December to February period, says the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
  10 March 2010, 4:00pm

• EMI names ex-ITV boss as chairman
  Troubled record company EMI - whose artists include Coldplay - has named former ITV boss Charles Allen as its new chairman.
  10 March 2010, 12:53pm

• UK industrial output falls back
  Industrial production in the UK fell unexpectedly in January, dropping by 0.4% form December, official data has shown.
  10 March 2010, 11:31am