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Is your knowledge of the English language up to date?

Quiz: "lending" or "selling"?

HSBC has been fined for mis-____ investment bonds to people in their 80s and 90s.

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Quiz: "scupper" or "bolster"?

Australia has cut interest rates to ____ growth.

"What the world needs now is love," sang Jackie DeShannon back in 1965. And, no doubt, she was right. What the world definitely doesn't need now is more abbreviations and acronyms. IMHO. But they keep coming.

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Business Spotlight in the classroom 4/2010

A selection of ideas and suggestions for using Business Spotlight in your lessons. It is free to teachers who subscribe to our magazine. Download the latest schedule of our free podcasts — and plan ahead.

4/2010 Podcast schedule

Business Spotlight Audio 3/2010

SHORT STORY
Full moon

INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
China and the car industry

SKILL UP!
Talking about the weather

Business Spotlight in the classroom 3/2010

3/2010 Podcast schedule

It's all your fault

Reading the newspapers can make one's heart sink, because they are often full of such depressing news. But one recent story in the Financial Times about banking was particuarly depressing. It seemed to blame bankers for all our problems.

jmdn. mutlos werden lassen, bei jmdm. ein Gefühl der Resignation hervorrufen

The next new trend

If you want to write a best-selling book, you need two key elements: a one-word title and good timing. If you jump on the bandwagon of a trend too late, nobody will be interested. This is why we now need a book about loving bankers.

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Tears in Zurich

The financial crisis is enough to make grown men and women cry, particularly if they are bankers. Not least in Switzerland. But the tears that were seen last weekend in Zurich had a different cause.

An end to bullshit?

The current financial crisis should have some positive results. One is that less economic nonsense will be spoken.

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