| Gas crisis could shut factories
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Factories could be forced to shut down as the deepening international gas crisis sends prices soaring in Britain
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| Shoppers stay home despite
bargains [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Retailers had a gloomy end to the year despite a rush by shoppers to post-Christmas sales on Boxing Day and 27 December
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| Market report: Tuesday 12.00
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Investors were happy to chase prices sharply higher on the first day of trading in 2006 as the Footsie reached its highest point since July 2001
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Movers and shakers of 2006 [01/03/2006 01:08
PM] |
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The Evening Standard business team spotlights the players who will star in the Square Mile action this year
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| £9.5m winner misses the deadline
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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A lottery winner last night lost out on a £9.5m fortune, plus £211,000 interest, after the deadline to claim it expired
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| Female pair join £1m club
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Two women have started the New Year £1m richer after they discovered they had scooped January's Premium Bond jackpots
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| Jobless total 'to hit one
million' [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Unemployment will hit 1m this year for the first time since 2000, thanks to the economy's failure to recover from its worst year in a decade
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| William Hill hunts down rivals
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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William Hill has reversed last November's cut in profit forecasts as Lady Luck turned her back on the punters
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| DSG poised to join home phone
war [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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DSG International, which owns Dixons, PC World and Currys, is considering a move into the residential phone market
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| BPB ex-chief tipped to take
Compass role [01/03/2006 01:08 PM]
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The vanquished boss of BPB is hot favourite to land the chief executive's post at troubled contract caterer Compass
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| Free cash machines 'gone in
a decade' [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Within 10 years free ATMs will be replaced by fee-charging machines which already account for more than 40% of the country's network
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| LSE: Are bidders 'fit and proper'?
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Leading members of the LSE have made a desperate plea to Gordon Brown to intervene in the Macquarie takeover bid
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| Tell all on pensions in job
ads, says MP [01/03/2006 01:08 PM]
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Job ads would have to declare the value of pension rights alongside the salary figure under a Bill coming before Parliament soon
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| Lloyd's cashes in on Islamic
cover [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Lloyd's of London is to launch its first insurance syndicate operating under the strict rules of Sharia
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| Banks face loans and cards
rap [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Banks offering credit cards and loans could face a series of clampdowns in 2006 if they are found to be making customers get into greater debt
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| Greenpeace donors hit by glitch
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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15,000 Greenpeace donors have had hundreds of pounds accidentally taken from their accounts over the Christmas holiday
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| UK leads broadband charge
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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There will be 13m broadband lines in the UK by the end of 2006, as unbundling frees up the market for more providers and competition
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| Postal service set for revolution
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Royal Mail today vowed to 'fight for every letter' after the New Year's Day revolution when it will lose its 350-year monopoly on deliveries
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| French to invade High Street
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Camaieu, France's answer to H&M, Zara and Etam, is working on plans to launch in Britain
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| Henderson out in front
[01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Henderson Global Investors has emerged as favourite to snap up rival fund manager Gartmore for about £600m
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| BP feels the heat over gas
debacle [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Despite sub-zero temperatures and soaring gas prices, BP has again failed to deliver liquefied natural gas to the huge Isle of Grain terminal
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| '4% interest rate will lift
recession threat' [01/03/2006 01:08 PM]
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Interest rates need to be slashed from 4.5% to 4% this year to avoid recession says an influential think tank
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| Insurers count cost of hurricane
aftermath [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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The global insurance industry has taken a harder than expected battering from hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Dennis and Emily |
| Top City economists predict
early rate cut [01/03/2006 01:08 PM]
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Experts predict the Bank of England will cut interest rates next year to give the flagging economy a boost, as early as February
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| This could be the stock market's
year [01/03/2006 01:08 PM] |
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Most investors who put their faith in unit trusts enjoyed a buoyant 2005. And for some, it was exceptional
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