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Women too ashamed to go broke [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Thousands of women advised to declare themselves bankrupt refuse because they see it as a sign of shame and failure
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Rate rise can't halt house prices [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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A property shortage is driving up house prices despite the recent rises in interest rates, a report warns today
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Market report: Monday latest [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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13.00:The deepening housing crisis in the US has sent profits at British building supplies group Wolseley plunging
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UK economy 'in rude health' [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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The UK economy is in 'rude health' but wage demands must be kept under control, an independent analysis of Treasury figures suggested today
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Council tax to go up 3.5% [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Council tax bill rises will be kept down to around 3.5% this year but elderly people could pay the price in reduced services, a survey claimed today
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Big beasts are key to stock market growth [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Monday view:Just how good value is the UK stock market? On the face if it, one can make a good case for it being cheap
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Revealed: Secret casino plan [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Government plans for Las Vegas-style casinos were dealt a blow with Tony Blair's casinos chief admitting they could lead to an increase in gambling addiction
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Insurers' £2bn storm bill [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Insurers could face a bill approaching £2 bn after the violent storms that shook Britain last week
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday
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Royal Mail lose big business deals [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Royal Mail has 'lost' 2.bn business letters - one in eight - to private competition in the past 12 months, Financial Mail can reveal
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Nurse strike threat over pensions gap [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Staff at the country's biggest nursing union have voted for strike action after discovering a £51m black hole in their pension fund
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'Protect TV quiz viewers' [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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MPs will this week publish a damning report into TV quiz shows that is expected to call for tighter regulation of the controversial games that one said were 'tantamount to theft'
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Row over £9bn Pru asset plan [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Prudentials plan to distribute £9bn of surplus assets is mired in controversy because of rumours that an industry insider will be made 'policyholder advocate'
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Tesco in £500m green drive [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tesco has boarded the environmental bandwagon with a £500m 'green revolution'
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UK firms bank on Brown's India mission [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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India is close to lifting restrictions on foreign firms investing in its domestic companies after Chancellor Gordon Brown's trade mission to the sub-continent
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Small change for Farepak victims [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Christmas savers who lost an average of £400 each when Farepak went bust last October will receive at most 5p for every pound, the administrator revealed today
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Surprise December spending spree [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Shoppers went on a bigger-than-expected spending spree during December, despite the higher cost of borrowing, official figures revealed today
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H&M goes upmarket to battle rival Zara [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Fashion retailer H&M is to take on arch-rival Zara by unveiling a new upmarket fashion chain when it announces figures next week
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TV licence to rise £4 in April [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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The BBC suffered a blow today when the Government revealed how much it will allow the TV licence to rise over the next six years
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Brand-hungry Premier set for strong growth [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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There are some things for which supermarket own brands just wont do - Midas takes a look at Premier Foods, manufactuer of Branston pickle, Bird's custard and Ambrosia creamed rice
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Fund boss emerges with a warning on markets [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Fund managers are usually reluctant to talk down markets. So when someone such as Jorma Korhonen puts his head above the parapet, investors should sit up and listen
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I'm incredibly wealthy, so send me £24 [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail's ace investigator Tony Hetherington tackles the protection racket that has branched out into an bogus prize give-a-ways
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Cameron's in a tailspin with the City's grandees [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Possibly because he spent so much time as a public relations executive, Conservative leader David Cameron appears to hold such a distinctly jaundiced view of business
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Green growth is a shade false [01/22/2007 01:17 PM]
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Marks & Spencer is going green, as is Tesco. HSBC has gone green. You may conclude the new fashion is not so much deeply green and deeply phoney
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