Notebook
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Tchenguiz will have to try harder
Notebook: Raising the offer might be a start.
Claimant count is wake-up call
Notebook: Britain's claimant count measure of unemployment is only 3% - a level once seen as synonymous with full employment.
TalkTalk is nothing to shout about
Notebook: You've got to hand it to Charles Dunstone, chief executive of Carphone Warehouse: he certainly knows how to grab headlines.
Retailers wait for winds of change
Notebook: Rate cut and World Cup win would do.
Message of gold is not glittering
Notebook: High price points to economic troubles.
The day the banks were called bandits
Notebook: Senseless charges don't help their case.
Quad is one up on triple - for now
Notebook: Just what you always wanted, another piece of technology jargon. Quadplay comes courtesy of NTL and Virgin Mobile, to describe an offer combining TV, broadband, mobile and fixed line telephony.
Life too cosy in world of private equity
Notebook: Why take risks when you can take fees?
Come back carpetbagger, all is forgiven
Notebook: For a laugh of sorts (and, heaven knows, they need one), Standard Life policyholders should take another look at their board's missive against demutualisation back in 2000.
Life still doesn't taste all that good
Notebook: A round of applause, please, for Justin King. The Sainsbury's boss seems to have got traction with his sales-led recovery
This looks like jobs for the boys
Notebook: Shareholders will have to take a stand
We'll go no more a-roaming
Notebook: Phone firms tell EU to back off.
One wheeze too far for Tesco
Notebook: The chancellor's new tax-efficient Real Estate Investment Trusts were designed to improve the country's supply of housing, not to give Tesco a tax break.
Could Dyke work an ITV miracle?
Notebook: The plan proposed by the Greg Dyke-backed consortium would fail any reasonable test of balance sheet risk.
A good news call for consumers
Notebook: Users to benefit in telecom changes.
Aviva needs less talk and more money
Notebook: The cost savings are tiny, the terms are too mean and the bidder calls it a merger but has conceded the principle of paying a premium. In other words, Aviva's tilt at the Pru is struggling.
Anita, are they worth it?
Notebook: Campaigner falls for French charms | Inside out | Airheads
Morrisons, the outsider and Sir Ken
Notebook: Grand old man is the chief obstacle | Steeling itself | Net loss
MPC hawks should listen to Nickell
Notebook: The papers were full of the curious (and untrue) story of Norman Lamont and his shopping expedition to a Thresher's off licence in Paddington the last time unemployment rose more strongly than it did last month.
Watch Brown wriggle out of this one
Notebook: The ombudsman is treated with disdain.
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