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In the high-pressure world of business, should the captain or the players be chosen first? Life coach Jenny Handley ponders the question...

Hanger reported 28% earnings growth during its last quarterly announcement.

The ailing U.S. steel industry is pressing President-elect Barack Obama for a public works plan that could be worth $1 trillion over two years to boost flagging demand for U.S.-made steel, the New York Times reported in Friday's editions.

HONG KONG, Jan 2 (Reuters) - China's Lenovo Group ,the world's No.4 personal computer maker, plans to lay off 200employees at its headquarters in Beijing as it fights tougheconomic conditions, an influential Chinese magazine said.

Nationwide Building Society will not pass on any further interest rate cuts to the majority of its tracker mortgage customers, it said today. The lender plans to invoke a clause in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The ailing U.S. steel industry is pressing President-elect Barack Obama for a public works plan that could be worth $1 trillion over two years to boost flagging demand for U.S.-made steel, the New York Times reported in Friday's editions.

The head of major Chinese dairy firm Sanlu Group argues that the country's lack of regulations regarding a toxic chemical contributed to a tainted milk scandal that sickened nearly 300,000 infants, state-run media reports.

They topped the Christmas ratings with Wallace and Gromit's bakery adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death, but Aardman Animations' latest challenge is their most daunting yet.A cartoon advert by the award-winning firm will be the centrepiece of a £75m government marketing campaign intended to make the public aware of the fatal link between expanding waistlines and life-shortening disease.The ambitious Change4Life strategy will also feature a rebranding of the London marathon and will embrace supermarkets and food producers such as Pepsico as well as voluntary groups and fitness clubs in an attempt to curb what ministers regard as a national crisis.The campaign is aimed at reducing the 9,000 premature deaths a year attributed to obesity. The government claims it will work because it believes public information campaigns were central to people stopping smoking. The crisis will cost £50bn by 2050 - half the annual NHS budget - if the current trend continues.The TV adverts, the

Credit and debit cardholders are being told by banks to notify them of their holiday destinations and foreign travel plans or face having their accounts frozen in moves to combat fraud.

The Justice Department has reached more than a dozen business-related settlements since the presidential election, with more in the pipeline for January, prompting lawyers and interest groups to assert that companies are seeking more favorable terms before the new administration arrives.