Industry weathers horrid &#39;04
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NEW YORK - The pharmaceutical industry has endured a disastrous 2004, and the aftermath will linger into the new year. Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration were expected to take a more cautious approach
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Britain&#39;s motor industry suffered a day of mixed fortunes yesterday with news of fresh job losses balanced by a Â£115m investment on Merseyside.
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Investor's Business Daily - The market in January handed stock fund investors their worst month in years.
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THE pharmaceutical industry was reeling last night, as AstraZeneca and Pfizer put key drug development programmes on hold and Eli Lilly issued a warning on one of its best selling medicines.
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A troubled company in the troubled housing sector.
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The techno gadgetry retailer has another rough month.
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With a new round of safety problems, the auto industry has now recalled a record number of vehicles in 2004 despite marked quality gains in recent years.
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Stock markets unexpectedly tumble nearly 9%.
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The company has posted impressive growth, but the industry is struggling.
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The Bhopal disaster in India in 1984 was the world&#39;s worst chemical disaster. Toxic gas leaked from the poorly maintained and understaffed plant owned by Union Carbide, killing up to 20,000 people and leaving 120,000 chronically ill.
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The US economy lost 4,000 jobs in August. Home builders, factories, and schools were hit hard.
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SALES at consumer goods giant Unilever slumped 4% in its latest quarter, heaping yet more bad news on long-suffering investors. Just weeks after a devastating profit warning braced the markets for grim tidings
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And a very happy new year to you too... The economic outlook for the UK is looking as bad as at any time since the dot-com crash of 2001.â¦
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Even industry insiders see weakness until 2009.
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The economy nearly stalled in the first quarter with growth slowing to a pace of just 0.6 percent. That was the worst three-month showing in over four years.
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Employers cut jobs for the first time in four years last month, the government reported yesterday, driving stock prices down in the United States and Europe and raising fears the slowdown in the housing and credit markets brought on by the crisis in subprime mortgages is spreading across the economy.
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Air travel over the holiday weekend was thrown into an epic snarl that&#39;s been blamed on everything from crashing computers to employee sick calls to lousy winter weather.