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Banks clean up on overdrafts [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banks are sharply increasing the interest they charge on overdrafts. RBS-NatWest is putting up its average rate to 17.44% from today
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Houses most overvalued in 15 years [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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House prices are at their most overvalued for 15 years, according to a new study that says costs are moving beyond the means of many families
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Market report: Tuesday latest [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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12.00:Investors made a positive start to 2007 on the first full day of trading after the holidays with share prices doing what they did for much of 2006 going up
>> SHARE TIPS: Midas's picks for 2007
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Rail fares rise again to 'cut overcrowding' [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Commuters returning to work today face rail fare rises for the fourth year running, with some increasing by as much as 7.3%
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Grow your roof and cut your tax [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners could soon slash their council tax bills and help the environment by planting 'green roofs' on their homes and offices
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Net tightens on cross-border scams [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Fraudsters and rip-off merchants who run scams from abroad have 'nowhere to hide' as a result of regulations that have just come into effect
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Credit crunch hits Visa diners [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Thousand of people found their credit cards were refused on New Year's Eve after the Visa authorisation system went into meltdown
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Strike threat to tax rush [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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The processing of millions of tax returns could be hit by a nationwide strike of civil servants at the end of the month
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2006: Business year in review [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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A year of frenetic takeover activity has helping the FTSE 100 Index to rise by 10%. Here are some of the highlights from a rollercoaster few months
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BA facing winter misery [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Millions of passengers face New Year flight chaos from a looming all-out strike by British Airways cabin crew
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Nasdaq plans LSE rival [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Nasdaq has warned that it will set up a rival market to the London Stock Exchange if its bid for the LSE fails
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More UK firms to fall to foreign predators [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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British companies are expected to continue to fall prey to foreign takeovers this year, thanks to the debt-fuelled acquisitions spree
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You're too British Branson [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Like many before him, the billionaire Virgin Boss is finding that his business is not welcome in America
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Splits scandal boss pockets £4.5m [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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The boss of Aberdeen Asset Management, at the centre of the split capital trusts scandal, pocketed nearly £4.5m in pay
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Mixed fortunes on festive High Street [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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January trading statements will reveal it has been a tale of two Christmases for the High Street, with clear winners and losers
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Gas price fears over Russian threat [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Gas prices in Europe are expected to soar if crucial talks between Russian giant Gazprom and the Belarus government collapse
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Shares pip property in 2006 [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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The stock market just shaded residential property in 2006, but it was an excellent year for both asset classes
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Record levels for bad debts [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banks wrote off a record £1.4bn of customers' bad debt in 2006 as thousands of consumers took advantage of debt-relief tools like bankruptcy and IVAs
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Massive rail fare rises slammed [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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A chief passenger watchdog has launched a stinging attack today on massive public transport fare increases.
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Mortgage lending hits new record [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mortgage lending by banks hit record levels in November but consumer credit remained subdued, new figures today indicated
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Crush hour in the sales [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Spending in the sales is predicted to be up 50% on last year as the post-Christmas shopping boom continues
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Pensions gap cut by half [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Pension deficits of the UK's top firms fell by almost half in 2006, according to figures out today
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Women race into top business league [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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For the first time, women make up about one in four on an annual list of Top 100 Entrepreneurs, a 25% increase on the 2004 figure
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Web raffle falls flat [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tony Hetherington investigates a web raffle for a flat in Liverpool that he says is unlawful and will fail
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Brown packs his bags for Number 10 [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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After a decade in the wings, delivering ever longer, rapid fire, budgets, 2007 should be the year when Gordon Brown moves into Number 10
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Midas' top picks for 2007 [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our top stockpicker chooses five shares to shine in the coming 12 months, including Barclays, Halfords and Biffa
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The risk of costly deals [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Financial Mail on Sunday editor says the wave of mergers will continue in 2007 but that the risks will rise
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Winds of change at the Treasury [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Economics editor Dan Atkinson looks at the prospects for the Department of Trade and Industry when Brown steps down
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2007 - a year for justice [01/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Financial Mail's personal finance editor wants justice for thousands of pension victims in 2007
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