Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Economic Update 17th December

A lot has happened again in the economic world this week including :

· Today the administrators that have taken over Woolworths said that all stores will close by January 5th.

· Unemployment has risen to 1.86 million.

· The pound hit a low of 1.0796 euros.

· Opec is making an output cut of 2.2million barrels per day.

· Yesterday the US interest rates to between 0 and 0.25%.

· National express is to cut 750 jobs

But on the positive side inflation has fallen to 4.1% !!!

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