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HSBC kicks off banks' profit glut [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The High Street banks began an £18bn record profits bonanza today, as HSBC said it had made more than £6bn in the last six months
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London driving up house prices [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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London is continuing to drive up average house prices in England and Wales despite evidence of a slowdown elsewhere in the country, figures showed today
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Market report: Monday 13.00 [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Sugar giant Tate & Lyle stood out in a falling stock market at the prospect of a big new big market being opened up for its artificial sweetener Sucralose
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Online spending soars [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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More than half of UK adults made a purchase over the internet last year as consumers ignored the High Street in favour of their computer
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Homeloans surge ahead [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Mortgage approvals rose to their highest level in five months in June but the growth of credit card lending has slowed sharply to the lowest level since 1994
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Union hails sale of LDV to Russians [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The sale of Midlands van maker LDV to Russia's second-largest vehicle manufacturer GAZ for an undisclosed sum was welcomed today by the TGWU
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Postal charge changes threaten chaos [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The biggest shake-up in more than 165 years in the way we pay for letters has 'the makings of a mega-disaster', say consumer groups
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London could be 'fraud honeypot' [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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London is at risk of becoming a honey-pot for white-collar criminals' because of Britain's failure to punish fraudsters severely enough
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Pearson surges into first-half profit [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Educational publisher and Financial Times owner Pearson cheered the City today with better-than-expected first-half results
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Northern Foods in £51m sell-off [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Slimming-down biscuit-maker Northern Foods is to sell its chilled foods distribution arm in the first of a slew of disposals
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Merged Boots kicks off cost-cutting [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Boots and drugs distributor Alliance Unichem completed their £7bn merger today and will slash £100m in costs over four years
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A-Z of the Sunday newspapers [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Our summary of what the Sunday business pages are reporting from the financial world this week
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Banks to write off £4bn as debt soars [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The staggering scale of Britain's debt mountain will become clear this week when top banks write off billions in bad loans
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Ministers to blame for gas crisis [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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A damning report by one of the world's leading energy consultants blames the Government for creating the gas crisis and soaring fuel charges
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Homeowners braced for rate rise [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners were today braced for the possibility that interest rates could rise to 4.75% this week
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Whitbread 'to sell £100m Pizza Hut stake' [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Hotels and leisure group Whitbread was under the spotlight today following a report it is in talks to sell its stake in Pizza Hut for £100m
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Profits at BA to leap after cut in prices [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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British Airways will this week announce sharply higher profits for the first quarter, thanks to a boom in cut-price ticket sales
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Labour facing MPs' fury over lost pensions [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Labour must pay compensation for failed company pension schemes or face the wrath of all sides of the House of Commons
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Drax poised for a surge in earnings [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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This week Financial Mail on Sunday's stock picking expert Midas looks at coal-fired power station owner Drax
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Find the cash for victims like Fred [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Labour's idea of a long-term solution to the pensions problem is far from perfect
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Labour should feel the heat over this crisis [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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The shortages that have plunged tens of thousands into miserable fuel poverty can be traced back four years or more
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Warning, this is just bull [07/31/2006 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail's ace investigator warns against falling for share 'boiler room' price Stone's hard sell tactics
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