Fido can pick up the smell of TNTvapor at concentrations of just a few parts per trillion, and it was the first sensor to find buried mines at a level comparable to dog performance, with a false-alarm rate of less than 5%.

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Unaware even though the Wall St Journal had been ringing alarm bells about rate fixing as early as 2008.

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Retail-sales figures suggest consumers are growing more cautious, and December's surprise jump in the jobless rate raised alarm about the labour market.

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That could alarm the European Central Bank, which has already indicated there may already be another interest rate rise in the pipeline.

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