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28/04/2011

Mickey Clark and Andrew Verity with news and insight from the business world. Text: 85058 (at your standard message rate).

Japan have released its industrial production figures for March and output reflected the country's difficulties, falling 15.3% during the month, significantly higher than the 11.0% drop forecast by the market. We speak to Professor David Bailey, a car industry expert at Coventry Business School and Seijiro Takeshita, partner at Mizuho Financial Group.

The US Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke gave a press conference following a meeting of the bank's policymakers, talking about the US's enormous stock of debt. We speak to Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Economics in New York.

Energy companies will now have to write to you at least 30 days before they raise prices. Previously, they'd only had to write to you three months after prices had gone up. Joe Malinowski, founder of the Energyshop.com joins us.

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Thu 28 Apr 2011 05:30

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