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Unite, Britain's biggest union is calling on Gordon Brown to make his new year's resolution a commitment to close down the tax havens and give Britain back GBP33bn a year.

Consumer spend at the major online retailers is likely to fall far short of the industry's expectations, according to leading European online payments system, Moneybookers.

After ten years of development, China's DVD player market has entered a mature period. The sales volume of China's DVD player market maintained growth during 2003 and 2006, but the growth rate has slowed down. The sales volume of China's DVD players had its first drop in 2007, and the market in 2008 continued this trend. In 2008, affected by RMB appreciation, financial crisis, intellectual property fees and patent fees, China's DVD product export experienced unprecedented tests: high labor and expensive raw material costs, the price of DVD players were challenged again, and climate and natural disasters restricted DVD players' transportation and sales.

From January to November, the industrial enterprises above designated size (all state-owned enterprises and non-state-owned enterprises with an annual sales over 5 million yuan, same as follows) reached 2,406.6 billion yuan, rose by 4.9 percent over the same period of the previous year.

While the recent catastrophic events in the U.S. financial markets will most certainly dramatically affect CEO compensation reported in 2009, The Conference Board Top Executive Compensation report shows that changes are already underway.

New orders have dropped sharply and prices have plunged to the point where deflation may become the Chinese leadership's next battle, the results of the latest Xinhua Finance/MNI China Business Sentiment Survey indicate.

The Conference Board announced that the leading index for Germany declined 2.6 percent and the coincident index decreased 0.4 percent in October.

In 2007, Canadian retailers sold C$13.8 billion ($12.9 billion) of consumer products and travel bookings online. But by 2012 eMarketer projects that Canadian business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce sales will reach C$22.8 billion ($22.2 billion).

Even while citing a down economy and concerns about the earth's ecosystem, business owners continue to be optimistic about giving to environmental causes, according to a survey released by SunTrust Bank Private Wealth Management.

Although seventy percent of German Broadband subscribers report being satisfied with their current provider, nearly two-thirds would defect if offered a 20% price reduction, according to a report just published by analyst firm Strategy Analytics. Deutsche Telekom customers were among the least likely to be influenced by competitive price offerings.