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Post offices get ATM boost - Post offices struggling for survival were given welcome boost today after major High Street bank pledged install free cash machines at 100 sites Rate rise 'needed' say City experts - More weight was put behind case for rate rise today after an influential City report said both housing market economy need be cooled



Post offices get ATM boost  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Post offices struggling for survival were given a welcome boost today after a major High Street bank pledged to install free cash machines at 100 sites
Rate rise 'needed' say City experts  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
More weight was put behind the case for a rate rise today after an influential City report said both the housing market and the economy need to be cooled
Market report: Monday latest  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
11.45am:Shares in London drifted lower today as a shortage of economic and corporate data left investors with little to cheer- Share tips from Midas
Website promises to get rid of junk mail  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
A data asset management company has launched a new service, www.itsmypost.com, which promises to help cut out unwanted junk mail
Brits are worst energy-wasters in Europe  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
The UK has come out worst in a European energy wasters' league, as we continue to leave appliances on stand-by and chargers plugged-in
Shops braced for tough Christmas  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
High street shops are bracing themselves for a tough Christmas today after the amount of money they made from each customer fell more than 9% in the first half of year
Investors pile back into equities  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Private investors are ploughing back into the stock market as the 'feel-good factor' helps propel the FTSE 100
The future's orange juice, up 30p a litre  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
A world shortage of juicing oranges could force up the price in shops by 30p a litre, growers warned yesterday
£363m Olympic rail contract awarded  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
A consortium comprising engineering companies Balfour Beattie and Carillion was today awarded a £363m contract to build a key new rail line
A-Z of the Sunday newspapers  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday - Share tips from Midas
Chip and Pin faces secret challenge  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Top accountancy group PricewaterhouseCoopers is pushing a new security technology to banks and internet firms that it says could replace chip and Pin
£24bn tax windfall 'spent'  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown is on course to blow a £24.5 billion tax windfall, according to the independent Item Club.
YouTube runs into copyright trouble  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
The video-sharing website recently snapped up by Google has removed nearly 30,000 clips after receiving a complaint from Japanese media companies
Growth surge shoos in rate rise  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
An interest rate rise appears almost certain next month as figures show the economy growing at its fastest rate for more than two years
Brown racks up £25.4bn deficit  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
The Chancellor has racked up his worst budget deficit in more than a decade - and may be forced to cut spending as a result.
Car costs motor ahead  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
The cost of motoring is soaring, with drivers spending an average of £5,500 a year to keep their car on the road
Google clicks with £3000 per minute  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Google has turned in another stellar performance, revealing it is making more than £3000 every minute of the day
Share tips from Midas  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's top stock-picker takes a closer look at Carillion, the infrastructure, building and business services group
Let's be clear, the public is tired of hype  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
With brazen attempts to mystify, manipulate or downright mislead customers, it is little wonder that the public confidence in big business is so low
Lloyds TSB couldn't care less  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Jeff Prestridge attended a public meeting to discuss Lloyds TSB's controversial closure of its branch in St Just - the town's last bank
Tony Hetherington investigates  [10/23/2006 01:17 PM]
Every week, Financial Mail's readers' champion investigates examples of financial wrongdoing - and tries to get them righted