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Tax news - Big firms ready to flee over tax [06/04/2006
01:17 PM]
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Tax - Dozens of major companies are working with accountancy
firms on plans to move their headquarters overseas and
escape
the tax avoidance war
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Trim the cost of health cover [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Cheaper health cover will be on offer for people who agree to wear an electronic gadget that monitors how much exercise they take
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Market report: Friday close [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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McCarthy & Stone injected some much-needed oomph into the midcap market today as it confirmed that it is in takeover talks
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Americans to make £10.2bn move for BAA [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Airports operator BAA is this weekend considering a new takeover approach from giant US investment bank Goldman Sachs
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Rivals in dash to buy AOL [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Vodafone and O2 are likely to be frontrunners in the race to buy the UK arm of AOL, which was put up for sale last week
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Coal lights up the market [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Drax will return to the top flight of business this week when the power station owner joins the FTSE 100 index of Britain's biggest companies
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Morrisons gets its new boss [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Morrisons' hunt for a new chief executive should finally end this week with the appointment of Marc Bolland to head the supermarket group
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Bloodshed set to continue at Vinci [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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More heads could roll at French building giant Vinci after the spectacular boardroom revolution that toppled cash-hungry chief executive Antoine Zacharias
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Interest
rates
'on hold for nine months' [06/04/2006
01:17 PM]
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The cost of borrowing is not expected to rise until at least March next year, according to a poll of economists
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Stock exchanges deal to boost London [06/04/2006
01:17 PM]
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London is poised to be a major beneficiary from last night's agreed $20bn (£10.7bn) merger of the New York Stock Exchange and Euronext
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Fears of US rate hike ease [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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The chances of US interest rates hike at the end of this month decreased dramatically after figures showed the crucial job market weaker than expected
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Council records are ID fraud gift [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Councils are publishing sufficient details on people applying for planning permission for fraudsters to be able to takeover their identities
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Warning on foreign homes risk [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Buying a home abroad is full of pitfalls that are rarely mentioned by TV presenters, the consumer body Which? warns today
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Power failure shuts down Abbey [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Abbey customers were unable to access cash machines, online banking or branches today as a systems failure caused chaos across the country
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Goldman Sachs mulls joining chase for BAA [06/04/2006
01:17 PM]
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The prospect of a Goldman Sachs white knight bid to protect BAA from hostile Spanish bidder Ferrovial came closer today as the bank refused to rule itself out of the dogfight
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New deal to cut European roaming costs [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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The cost of making mobile calls overseas is set to fall after a deal between Europe's leading mobile phone operators
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Britain's favourite cars revealed [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Britain's beleaguered motor industry got a boost today when four UK-built cars made it into a top 10 list of most-satisfying models
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Water firms face tide of protests [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Directors are on the defensive as they report big profits against a background of rising bills and chronic leakages
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Hi-tech fun speeds Hornby to growth [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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The new hi-tech Scalextric racing car game propelled maker Hornby into its seventh successive year of profit growth
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Glaxo to up stakes in Pfizer race [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline is to bid more than $15bn (£8.2bn) for the much sought-after consumer healthcare business of US rival Pfizer
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Six join queue for Brambles' Cleanaway [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Brambles is believed to have attracted up to six bidders for waste disposal firm Cleanaway UK, which could fetch £650m
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Dyson cleaners suck, says survey [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Dyson vacuum cleaners are the least reliable on the market, according to new research
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Top two out of tune at Sony [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Two veteran music industry executives have quit Sony BMG as a result of a power play between Sony and Bertelsmann
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RBS in Chinese bonus [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Royal Bank of Scotland made another £55m in Hong Kong from the stock market float of Bank of China
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The same old names in shares offer [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Ace investigator Tony Hetherington takes a closer look at broker Bishop & Perkins, and their offer of Sensitron shares
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My, but what big teeth you have Gordon [06/04/2006 01:17 PM]
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Gordon Brown is right to clampd down on tax evasion but his recent tactics risk alienating corporate Britain
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Standard Life news - At last, benefits in sight at Standard
Life [06/04/2006
01:17 PM]
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Standard Life's demutualisation will provide the ideal backdrop for policyholders to benefit, something they haven't done for many a year
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