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 London market up (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The London stock market opened higher on Monday after global markets started the new year on Friday with a strong advance despite more gloomy economic news.
 London Metal Exchange Trading Jumps to Record in 2008 (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The London Metal Exchange , the world’s largest copper market, said trading rose 22 percent last year for a fourth consecutive record, paced by nickel and lead.
 Strong trading at London Capital (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Financial services and online spread betting firm London Capital said trading for the year ended 31 December 2008 is ahead of management expectations as it increases its final dividend for the year 2008.
 Dave Hill on Boris Johnson's London (Guardian Unlimited)
The London mayoral election campaign fought earlier this year confirmed my view that the defeated candidate Ken Livingstone had better policies and was a better politician than his blond Tory nemesis. Yet, for all his characterisation – largely brought upon himself – as an archetypal Tory toff, Boris Johnson 's policy programme contained his versions of some of contemporary Conservatism's ...