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Good
start for Standard Life shares [07/10/2006
01:17 PM]
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Standard Life policyholders saw the value of their newly-held shares rise today after the insurer made a bright start to life on the stock market
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Average home costs £190,000 [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Annual house price growth rose at the fastest rate for a year during May as the cost of a home jumped almost £2000 to £190,000
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Market report: Monday 12.00 [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Shares of high-flying easyJet reached a new altitude today as the City continued to reflect on last week's revised trading update
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Ryanair facing probe into airport fees [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Budget airline Ryanair is said to be facing an EU probe into alleged mis-stating of taxes and airport passenger fees
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Monstermob dives as China rings changes [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Shares in Monstermob, the mobile phone ringtones and content provider, crashed more than 60% to today after China tightened its regulations
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India's empire builders [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Last year America built four new shopping malls. India built 300. Richard Dyson takes a closer look at India's booming commercial property market
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Last-ditch bid to halt Enron extradition [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Ministers have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent the extradition of three British bankers accused of massive fraud
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Kraft set to take a piece of United Biscuits [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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US food giant Kraft was today expected to announce it has bought McVitie's and Jaffa Cakes maker United Biscuits' southern European arm
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Dyson's £12.5m college for engineers [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Vacuum cleaner billionaire James Dyson is to pump £12.5m into setting up a specialist engineering sixth-form college
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Woodrow hails housing market recovery [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Taylor Woodrow said today it would meet profits forecasts after reporting 'encouraging signs of recovery' in its UK market
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Gas bills set to rise again [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Britain's energy crisis is threatening 1.4m manufacturing jobs in Britain and is about to spark another round of household power bill rises
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Burberry checks out male market [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Angela Ahrendts, the new boss of the iconic brand Burberry is planning 'men-only' stores in a move to reach a wider audience
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Matalan boss 'should reveal bid details' [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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John Hargreaves, chairman of Matalan, will come under increased pressure to give shareholders details of his plans to bid for the company
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New fears over US bank spies [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Britain's privacy watchdog is to investigate whether personal information from payment clearing system Chaps has been handed to the US authorities
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Here is This is Money's round-up of some of the bigger stories from the Sunday finance and business pages
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EMI joins battle for songs giant [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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EMI is expected to join most of the world's major music groups and table a first-round bid tomorrow for £800m song rights giant BMG Publishing
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Four left in John Lewis search [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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John Lewis is down to a shortlist of four in its search for the first two external non-executive directors ever to join the group
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Top performing shares revealed [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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New research has revealed that the best performing stocks of the past decade have largely been those exposed to Britain's property boom
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EU row over mobile costs [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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European Commissioner Viviane Reding will put herself on a collision course with Ofcom and phone operators over charges for using mobiles abroad
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Homeowners cash in £12.5bn [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Renewed confidence in the housing market value has led homeowners to release more cash from their properties
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EBay shaken by PayPal chief's exit [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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The boss of PayPal, eBay's payment system, has announced he is leaving, just as the online giant faces a threat from Google's new service
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Opportunities abound during Ashtead lull [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail's top stock-picker takes a closer look at plant hire company Ashtead Group, and says it's time to buy
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Begbies Traynor going for broke [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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strong>Tips & tactics: Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week's report includes Begbies Traynor
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Don't pass the ports just yet [07/10/2006 01:17 PM]
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There is a tendency to dismiss Parliamentary inquiries as toothless wonders. But government and business ignore them at their peril
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