The Lonely Planet suffered from the prolonged global recession and the Australian dollar appreciating to 58% against the UK pound - 80% of Lonely Planet's revenues are generated from foreign currency.
By Friday of last week good money was betting against the UK pound but by Monday morning the Euro was back in the frame, courtesy of an Italian election that looked likely to favor anti-austerity politicians.
As well as the new jobs, this project could accrue significant UK multi-million pound exports.
If Scotland was to leave the UK but retain the pound, it would "still enjoy the huge advantages that the full fiscal freedom of independence will bring", Ms Sturgeon said.
You'll recall that George Osborne departed from that script last week, when he set out the negotiating stance of the rest of the UK on sharing the pound sterling as a post-independence currency, along with oversight and central banking by the Bank of England.
Early on the UK Nationwide House Price Index disappointed pound bulls with a reading of only 0.1% growth versus the 0.3% expected.
Mr Cameron said he had "fought off" attempts from all sides to protect the UK's multi-billion pound annual rebate on its contributions, declaring it "safe".
Scientology is now re-launching in the UK. Here opening a 20 million pound HQ in London and being made to feel welcome.
Factories are only just recovering from a period of sustained strength for the pound, which has made UK exports more expensive, hitting order books hard.
Rail franchising was put on hold last year after a decision to award the UK's multi-billion-pound West Coast Main Line rail franchise to FirstGroup was scrapped by the government.
A. Although the UK is part of Europe, the British pound remains separate from the Euro currency.
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Prime Minister David Cameron has described it as a "a decades-long, multi-billion pound vote of confidence in the UK".
Generally, the strong pound has been a burden on UK manufacturing, and the Bank of England seems to be taking this into account when deciding on monetary policy.
Polly Peck was Mr Nadir's multi-billion-pound trading empire which stretched from the UK to Turkey.
Last month, ratings agency Moody's cut the UK's AAA credit rating, which hit the pound, and the value of sterling has continued to edge down since then.
An estimated 70, 000 jobs have been lost in textiles across the UK since 1997 with companies under pressure from the strong pound and the need to look to source more goods abroad to cut costs.
The pound has also been weakened by fears about the UK's AAA credit rating.
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"While no-one knows exactly what will happen, all the recent data and expert opinion has suggested there is a long road ahead for the UK's economic recovery, which will likely weigh on the pound, " he says.
The company added that UK holidaymakers had suffered because of the strength of the euro against the pound.
It would be worrying for the UK's economic future if the crisis had put upward pressure on the pound.
But the UK's support for India, one of the world's fastest-growing economies, has been a cause of concern among Conservative MPs, many of whom believed that the UK should not be giving money to a country which has a multi-million pound space programme.
The pound has been weakening this year following some disappointing economic data and worries that the UK may lose its triple-A credit rating.
Although the cost of developing drugs is accelerating, meaning that the number of drugs per pound invested in research and development is decreasing, there is a wealth of innovation in UK drug discovery.
It didn't, probably because the pound's fall against the euro had pushed up the price of goods imported into the UK, raising the spectre of higher inflation.
Nationalists say that, regardless of comments now, it would be very much in the interests of rUK (rest of the UK) to maintain a stable currency zone, including Scotland - not least because Scotland could use the pound unilaterally, without reference to London.
You might have hoped that a more than 20% fall in the value of the pound during the financial crisis would have been enough to help us start to re-balance the UK economy - boosting the competitiveness of UK plc, and so reducing the gap between our exports and our imports.
It seems the real theme today though is the negative UK data combining with long positions finding a great area to take some profit and this has put pressure on the pound.
Investors and dealers alike will be looking for clues, by way of comments on UK gross domestic product (GDP) targeting, and whether his testimony may shape the future trajectory of the Sterling Pound.
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