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Estate agent complaints soar [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Rapidly rising house prices have been joined by an equally rapid rise in estate agents' unpopularity
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Inflation risk from private pay deals [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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New figures today show that some private sector pay deals are booming in response to rising price inflation
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Market report: Friday close [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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17.00:Investors were digging deep for mining giant Rio Tinto as talk of a hostile £50bn bid from rival BHP flared up again
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Buy-to-let on landlord's salary [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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High house prices and falling rents are leading buy-to-let lenders to offer mortgages based on landlords' salaries rather than letting value
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Sugar safe as firm loses £5m [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Sir Alan Sugar keeps his job as profits in the Apprentice star's holding company drop almost £5m
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Struggling borrowers targeted [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Debt management firms are targeting borrowers struggling with debt by paying large commissions to lenders to pass on their details
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Two in three are unhappy at work [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Seventeen million of us would happily give up wealth to escape city life, find a more fulfilling career or start afresh overseas
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Inflation burden is heavier for the rich [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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If you thought the official rate of inflation, at 3.1%, was bad enough, wait until you see how much the cost of living has gone up for Britain's rich
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Browne quits Goldman board [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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BP's former chief executive Lord Browne quit the board of investment bank Goldman Sachs just a week after his abrupt departure from the oil firm
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Interest rates hiked to 5.5% [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Bank of England has raised the cost of borrowing to its highest level since early 2001>> Has your savings rate risen?
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House price leap raises rate pressure [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The influential Halifax index today showed that house prices are still growing annually at almost 11% as a shortgage of properties for sale persists
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HSBC insurance union with Norwich [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banking giant HSBC said today it had teamed up with Norwich Union in an attempt to improve its lacklustre performance in the insurance sector
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Charities dumped by National Savings [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Almost 1,000 organisations - many of them charities - have been told by National Savings & Investments to take their business elsewhere
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How long will savers have to wait? [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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It will be June before many savers see the benefits of today's decision to raise interest rates, and some may get nothing at all
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MPs in attack on water profits [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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MPs have condemned the water industry regulator Ofwat as 'limp' and 'lacklustre' for allowing firms to fail customers despite a massive hike in charges
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Barclays to axe 1,100 jobs [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Barclays stunned its workforce today with news that 1100 workers are to lose their jobs at the clearing bank's processing and IT office in Poole
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EasyJet flies into a 'green cloud' [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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EasyJet has become the first UK airline to admit that environmental concerns may be hitting business
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Virgin counts cost of Sky spat [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Virgin Media is preparing to lose thousands of cable TV customers as it starts to suffer the loss of Sky's basic channels
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Pay index shows living standards squeezed [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Slackening pay growth and a jump in inflation has squeezed household disposable income and driven living standards down, figures indicated today
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Time out for a nice decade [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The distance the nation has travelled since Tony Blair arrived on Downing Street can be measured by reaction to the quarter point rise in interest rates
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Small cap share tips: Networkers International, Maxima, Maypole [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week's report includes the unique selling point of Networkers International
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30 second guide to Private banking [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mails City team look at the tailored service given to the rich when they bank. Could you qualify?
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Midas: City keeps eye on WSP [05/12/2007 01:17 PM]
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Consultancy group WSP helps companies and government bodies in three distinct spheres - property, transport and the environment.
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