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Rate rises cool house market - House price inflation cooled for third consecutive month January as buyer demand fell back face of higher interest rates, an influential report today indicated New Year hangover for retail - Retail sales fell at sharpest rate four years last month after strong Christmas trading was followed by new year hangover, emerged today.



Rate rises cool house market  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
House price inflation cooled for a third consecutive month in January as buyer demand fell back in the face of higher interest rates, an influential report today indicated
New Year hangover for retail  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Retail sales fell at the sharpest rate in four years last month after strong Christmas trading was followed by a new year hangover, it emerged today.
Market report: Thursday latest  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
13.00:Despite a recordbreaking run overnight on Wall Street and a fresh surge in share prices in Asian markets this morning share prices made a cautious start
Capital One fined £175,000  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Breaking news: Capital One has become the second major credit card provider to be fined over the way it sold payment protection insurance
Powergen stokes fuel price war  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Powergen has guaranteed to beat British Gas' recently announced standard tariff price cuts for the next 18 months
Bank says rates will have to rise again  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Interest rates will have to rise once more to drag inflation in the UK back to its target, the Bank of England signalled today
Nationwide gets £1m laptop fine  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Nationwide Building Society has been fined nearly £1m following the theft of a laptop from an employees home, which contained confidential customer information
Buy-to-let mortgages up by 48%  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of mortgages being taken out by landlords shot up by almost 50% last year, figures showed today
Energy suppliers in price war  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Exclusive:An energy price war is set to come to the boil in the next few days with rival suppliers trumping British Gas's recently announced cuts
JJB offers free football shirts  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
JJB Sports is offering a free football top to customers that purchased one of the tops caught up in the price fixing argument
Asda under fire over cheap roses  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
A Valentine's Day price war was underway today, with one supermarket offering a dozen red roses for just £2
Economy harmed by sickie culture  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain's economic future is being jeopardised by soaring incapacity benefit claims, poor education and creaking infrastructure, a report shows
The M&S top made from 11 plastic bottles  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
This is the M&S jacket that could lead a green revolution in the high street. It is made from 11 recycled plastic bottles
Council tenants helped to buy  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Radical plans to get the poorest on to the housing ladder were unveiled as the Government announced a new right-to-buy scheme for council tenants
BA cuts slack on new baggage rules  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
British Airways today introduced its new policy of charging for excess baggage but check-in staff were told to give 'sympathetic treatment' to passengers unaware of the rules
Rates relief as prices slow  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The pressure appears to be off the Bank of England to raise rates again next month as inflation dropped back well below 3% in January
£120 a month extra for new buyers  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
First-time buyers must pay £120 a month more to get on the property ladder than they would have done a year ago
Endowment claims firm shut down  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Claims firm Austin Hamilton Associates, which branded itself the UK's leading endowment compensation specialist, has been shut down
VW could be exposed to takeover  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
A German law that shields Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen from takeovers breaks EU rules by hampering investors, an adviser said today
Sports tycoon to net £800m in float  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Entrepreneur Mike Ashley was poised for an £800m windfall today after announcing plans for the flotation of his Sports World retail empire
Housing market boosts B&B  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Record levels of lending today helped mortgage giant Bradford & Bingley post an 8% rise in profits for 2006
Romantics urged to buy blooms from Africa  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Buying Valentine's Day flowers flown in from Africa will help the planet and the world's poor, the Government claimed today
Birmingham is UK's card fraud hotspot  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
People living in Birmingham are most likely to fall victim to credit or debit card fraud, a new report has found
Cool Britannia fades away  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
It has been one hard day's night after another for the EMI chief executive who stunned the City with a second profits warning in a month
Watch out for wine, women... and a con  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
This week, the ace investigator looks at a women's only pyramid scheme that promises members it will deliver thousands in profits
An overflowing labour pool  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown's plan to round up the long-term unemployed hardly squares with the ruthless global economy in which the Goverment insists we operate
30 Second Guide ToThe Smoking Ban  [02/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mails City team assess the winners and losers from the forthcoming ban on smoking in public places