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Up to 40,000 jobs in the UK's financial services sector could be lost over the next three years as a fall out from the credit crunch The figures are published by business data company Experian which says it also expects UK employment levels to drop for the first time since 1992. "Financial-services jobs are particularly vulnerable as the fallout from the credit crunch continues," said William Thomson, director of international economics at Experian. "The slowdown will bring the impressive run of job creation to a halt." Experian predicts that the British economy will slow from 3 per cent in 2007 to 1.8 per cent this year and 1.5 per cent in 2009.       |
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