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Tesco spark PC price war - Tesco is set spark price war personal computer market by offering permanent range of major brand products Drained of £26bn by water firms - As threat of standpipes looms again, we reveal astonishing profits water giants have made since privatisation - staggering £26bn



Tesco to spark PC price war  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Tesco is set to spark a price war in the personal computer market by offering a permanent range of major brand products
Drained of £26bn by water firms  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
As the threat of standpipes looms again, we reveal the astonishing profits water giants have made since privatisation - a staggering £26bn
Market report: Friday close  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Share prices ended another difficult week on a firm note with the FTSE 100 enjoying a late surge, closing up 113 points
A to Z of the Sunday papers  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Here is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday finance and business pages
Vodafone to 500 jobs  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Mobile phone giant Vodafone is to cut hundreds of jobs from its workforce when it announces record annual losses this week
Giants set for big steps  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
With big changes on the horizon, we reveal that Portman almost took part in a 'mega merger' and Standard Life is set to unveil large profits
BT to rise amid bid talk  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Shares in BT are expected to be fired up this week by rumours that European rival Deutsche Telekom is mulling over a merger
Ferrovial to up BAA bid  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Spanish construction giant Ferrovial will table an increased takeover offer for BAA despite last week's shock competition announcement
Aim hit hard by slump  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
The junior Alternative Investment Market, hailed as star performer of the recent bull run, has emerged as the worst loser in the recent slump
Panama trees scandal develops  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Warnings were sounded all over the place about a firm promoting teak tree investments in Britain but in some places they fell of deaf ears
Insolvencies are 'mis-sold'  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Rogue practitioners are keeping alive 'zombie' companies that ought to have been wound up so they can line their own pockets
Aegis pair stand firm  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Aegis chairman Lord Sharman and chief executive Robert Lerwill will not quit the British media firm even if French raid suceeds
C&W chiefs face annual vote  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Directors at telecoms group Cable & Wireless may have to face re-election to their jobs every year in return for a new pay plan
Sanctuary under investigation  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Music group Sanctuary, which dismissed its chief executive and co-founder Andy Taylor on Friday is still under investigation
£4,000 bonus to beat post strikes  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Royal Mail bosses are planning to give the 180,000 workforce an extra half per cent pay rise on top of the 2.9% offer to beat strikes
The pensions shake-up verdict  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Millions working longer, more help for women...we assess the pensions shake-up and grade the key points amber or red (sorry, there's no green)
Work till you're 68 for £3 more  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Workers now in their late twenties will not be able to retire on a state pension until they are 68, yet they will hardly be any better off
Robot targets eBay tax dodgers  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
The taxman is clamping down on e-traders who should be paying VAT by hunting them down using a £250,000 'web robot'
Ladbrokes profits from favourites' loss  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Ladbrokes has profited from the failure of a string of favourites at the Grand National and the Cheltenham jump-racing festivals
Enron bosses guilty  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Enron bosses Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling face spending the rest of their lives behind bars after they were convicted last night
Insurers lose out in pensions shake-up  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
The insurance industry will lose £3bn-worth of business under plans to abolish part of the state pension
Rates relief as spending slows  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
The prospect of an imminent UK rate hike receded after a report showed consumers reined in spending earlier in the year
Pensions shake-up is more spin  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Thursday's landmark White Paper was heralded in Government circles, but it's more spin than fact says the Financial Mail personal finance editor
Even sex doesn't sell without ads  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
Tony Hetherington looks at a website get-rich-quick scheme, car hire deposit sneakiness and insurance issues
M&S revival deserves support  [05/29/2006 01:17 PM]
When two nightdresses cost £36 ten years ago, Financial Mail editor Lisa Buckingham knew M&S was in trouble but now it's back to its best