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Wall Street celebrates as unemployment in the United States falls to its lowest for almost three years. The surprise drop in the US unemployment rate has pushed the Dow share index in New York to its highest level since May 2008, four months before Lehman Brothers went bankrupt.

Alexander Schey is just 26, and in the garage of a fairly ordinary house in west London where he, and a few other fellow London students, built a battery powered electric car. Then, to raise awareness of their new battery management system, they drove along 25-thousand kilometres of the Pan American Highway. But this was more than just an elaborate student […]

If times are hard, why not set up your own business rather than try to find a job somewhere else? Peter Day hears from young entrepreneurs who think that one way of beating recession is to start from scratch. Producer: Caroline Bayley Editor: Stephen Chilcott

Pensioners diddled by annuities; new staff pay for checks; investment fund costs and problems for eBay sellers.