Mark Miller
Jun 20 2008, Pooja

A sharp rise in British retail sales pierced the global economic gloom like a rare shaft of sunlight on Thursday, but other developments showed that hopes that storm clouds would disperse were premature.

A Reuters survey said business pessimism was...

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