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Monday Papers; UK growth forecasts face cut from Office for Budget Responsibility -- other news

White House turns up heat on BP with flurry of new demands and CBI says Britain will avoid a double-dip recession, although recovery will be weak.

 * UK growth forecasts face cut from Office for Budget Responsibiity, the new body's first report will be blow to markets

 * Business confidence has seen its biggest drop- since 1995 due government rhetoric on spending cuts, according to survey

 * Investors are placing their best on a Black Monday-style crash in the K stock market at the fastest rate since the collapse of Lehman Bros bank, warns Bank of England in a survey

 * Britain to avoid a double-dip recession, but recovery will be weak, according to CBI

 * Chancellor to face pincer movement over banks break-up

 * David Cameron will today set out a hard-headed new approach to Afghanistan that will raise hopes that British troop numbers in the country will be reduced by little more than a year

 * US banks set to lose swaps fight, a defeat that would deal a blow to Wall Street

 * EU chief Van Rompuy  attacks financial markets saying the strong euro hid the crisis

 * Positive forecasts from Siemens and Volvo, despite euro crisis

 * Oil groups to distance themselves from BP

 * President Obama will demand that BP provide more money to handle the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis and sets up a substantial fund

 * Russia sends in troops to defend facilities as Kyrgyzstan ethnic violence escalates

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