| Pension-pay link to be restored
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Gordon Brown is to announce a big rise in the state pension, including restoring the link to earnings
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| GNER 'ring-fenced' from Sea
Containers [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Sea Containers is trying to distance its UK rail operations from its own growing financial problems
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| Market report: Tuesday 10.00
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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The London market made steady gains today as mining stocks helped the FTSE 100 Index put back some of the losses from a disappointing end to last week
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| Waterstone book chain bid flops
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Tim Waterstone's bid to buy back the famous chain of bookshops he created more than 20 years ago has suffered a fatal blow
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| Office laptops face 'perks'
tax [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Employees provided with laptops by work could be barred from any personal use or face large tax bills experts under new rules
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| BG's Bolivian fields under
threat [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Britain's BG Group is likely to be one of the biggest losers in the Bolvian government's nationalisation of the oil and gas industry
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| Amazon's Microsoft choice
hits Google [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Microsoft has drawn blood in the acrimonious battle with Google, with Amazon choosing its technology to power its A9 search unit
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| Goldman's merger team defies
US boss [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Goldman Sachs mergers and acquisitions team in Britain is working on more deals similar to the firm's bid approach for ITV
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| Lack of homes boosts prices
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Buyers hunting for homes in London and the South East are driving up house prices - with the value of the average home jumping £1,000 in April
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| One in five owe over £10,000
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Nearly one in five adults have amassed debts of more than £10,000 on credit cards, loans, overdrafts and hire purchase agreements
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| EMI trains spotlight on Warner
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Britain's EMI is preparing to make a takeover bid for US rival Warner Music in a deal that would create the second-biggest music group in the world
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| Retail crisis may force rent
cut [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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A deepening crisis in the retail industry could see owners of out-of-town shopping centres and High Street outlets slashing rents
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| A to Z of the Sunday newspapers
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Our summary of what the business pages are reporting from the financial world this weekend
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| Are there more profits at Debenhams?
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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This week Debenhams announces the price at which shares will be sold to institutional investors. The suggested range implies a value between £1.68bn and £1.95bn
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| Russian 'skeletons' alert
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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William Browder has warned that all 11 Russian companies listed on the London Stock Exchange have major corporate governance issues
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| Property value fraud hits major
lenders [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Two of the country's biggest lenders, Nationwide Building Society and HBoS, have become embroiled in a suspected multi-million pound fraud
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| Premier eyes up £2bn UB
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Premier Foods plans a takeover bid for United Biscuits in a deal that would value the business at more than £2bn
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| Another windfall for Hands
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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City financier Guy Hands is set to reap a second windfall from last year's £450m acquisition of utilities giant East Surrey Holdings
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| Net protest delays grocery
inquiry [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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An internet campaign by supermarket protest groups has forced a delay to the OFT decision to refer the £95bn-a-year grocery market to the Competition Commission
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| Sky wins half live football
deals [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Football fans will see a huge shake-up in televised top-flight football after BSkyB won just half of the six live packages
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| Friends beats sales forecast
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Friends Provident today became the latest insurer to find that Britons had regained their appetite for saving
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| Watchdog warns of pension peril
[05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Hundreds of company retirement schemes are at risk of collapse, the Pensions Regulator has warned, attacking the incompetence of some fund trustees
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| Tesco fails in bid for South
Korean stores [05/02/2006 11:26 AM]
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Tesco has failed to pick up the South Korean operations of Carrefour, with local clothesmaking and distribution firm Eland taking the prize
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| Holding building societies
to account [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Building societies reveal more than they used, but there's still a lot of room for improvement
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| The perils that lurk in foreign
firms' listings [05/02/2006 11:26 AM]
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The FSA will need to keep up to speed to ensure that London does not appear to be offering a gold standard to investors
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| Insurer makes a break with
past [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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Financial Mail's top stock-picker takes a closer look at SVB Holdings and advises investors not to be put off by the complexity of its reinvention
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| I lost with Win but it won't
pay me back [05/02/2006 11:26 AM] |
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The ace investigator takes a closer look at Win Investing's verbal moneyback guarantee that seems almost impossible to claim |