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Hedge fund manager John Paulson raked in an astonishing $3 billion last year, a payday that topped all others even in the rarified canyons of Wall Street.

That’s more than $1.4 million an hour, assuming a 40-hour workweek with no vacations — though we expect he worked a lot more than that.
Meanwhile, the average American […]

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The BBC is to capitalise on the success of its Easter drama The Passion by spending millions on a new production of The Bible. The corporation is to dramatise the most important and iconic stories from the Old Testament, using latest CGI graphics and actors.
State of the art technology will be used to vividly recreate […]

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Computer tycoon Bill Gates has been toppled from his 13-year standing as the world’s richest man. The founder of Microsoft has been pushed into third place, despite a fortune of £29 billion and a £1 billion increase in his wealth last year.
But it was not enough to cling on to the Forbes magazine ranking top […]

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Setting an all-time record, oil prices rose to nearly $104 a barrel on Monday morning, exceeding their inflation-adjusted high reached in the early 1980s during the second oil shock.
Oil futures rose as much as $2.11 to $103.95 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That level tops the record set in April 1980 of $39.50 a […]

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What’s it take to make $10 million in 12 months in these wonderful times of mighty Web growth? Apparently not very much.
Not very much work, that is. Today’s New York Times delivers a nice, sprightly memo about a 29-year-old coder based in Vancouver, Canada, who managed to put together a dating website, dubbed Plenty of […]

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Sedo, the leading market place for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites, has announced its online auction for premium Christmas co.uk Internet domain names.
Sedo has secured some of the most sought after generic Christmas co.uk Internet domain names for auction, including christmas.co.uk, christmasbreaks.co.uk, christmasgifts.co.uk, christmashampers.co.uk and stuffing.co.uk. The auction closes on Tuesday 27th […]

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Oil prices soared on Tuesday as the weak dollar hit a record low against the euro - tempting more investors towards commodities as an alternative.
US light, sweet crude touched a record-equalling $98.68 a barrel before settling up $3.39 at $98.03 a barrel.
London Brent crude also enjoyed a spurt, adding $3.21 to $95.49.
Tight supplies, winter demand […]

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How many times were you told to make sure you worked hard in high school so you could go to college and get a good career job?
Okay, maybe not all of you got nagged about it, but probably a good portion of today’s generation of adults did.
It’s natural to wonder whether college is really necessary. […]

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Oil prices have rebounded above $96 in Asian trading as concerns about global supplies linger.
A barrel of US light crude was worth $96.46, up $1, having fallen to $95.46 on Thursday on pessimistic comments by Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke.
His forecast for slower economic growth may have meant weaker demand as firms reined in spending, […]

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SINGAPORE (AFP) - Oil spiked past 93 US dollars in Asian trade Monday to set a new intra-day high as tensions in the Middle East continued to spook investors, dealers said.
Prices were also partly driven up by a new tropical storm, dubbed Noel, in the Caribbean which investors fear may make its way to the […]

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