* Dow rises 20 points, or 0.20%, S&P 500 closes little changed and Nasdaq eases 0.14%
* Fitch, the ratings agency, warns the UK is the developed nation most at risk of losing its AAA sovereign credit rating
* European Investment Bank and banks to lend £1.4 billion for UK wind farms
* UK company pension deficit down 34% in October, according to Pension Protection Fund
* International Energy Agency sees gas glut until 2015, with coal taking an increasing role
* World oil demand to grow to 700,000 bpd next year, according to Opec
* US bank reform bill seeks to strip powers from Federal Reserve
* City job vacancies rise 15% to highest this year
* Three more drugs advisers resign over sacking of David Nutt
* US faces a slow and protracted L-shaped recovery with only a gradual upward tilt, according to President of Reserve Bank of San Francisco
* Oxford Economics predicts tourism and travel spending to fall 5%
* Brussels has warned that a radical overhaul of rules on how banks value their assets could lead to great volatility in their accounts
* Europe competition watchdog has opened a full inquiry into the data feed supply agreements between Thomson Reuters and its trading customers
* President Obama is to ask members of Nato to provide at least 4,000 more troops to help break the deadlock in Afghanistan
* Supermarkets wage price war with toy soldiers and Christmas pudding
* Tesco improves its market share for the first time since 2007, according to Taylor Nelson survey
* Nine former cabinet ministers want Gordon Brown to scrap plans to tax childcare
* Lloyds announces another 5,000 jobs will go in reshuffle of back offices
* Clashes in northern Congo leave 60 dead
* Brian Winterflood steps down as chairman of the firm he founded.
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