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Inflation fall curbs rate pressure - Fears of rate rise next month eased after figures today showed lower energy prices helped rate of inflation fall back 2.8% April Reuters backs £8.7bn Thomson takeover - Canadian publishing giant Thomson Corporation today agreed formal £8.7bn takeover of Reuters, London-based news financial agency



Inflation fall curbs rate pressure  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Fears of a rate rise next month eased after figures today showed lower energy prices helped the rate of inflation fall back to 2.8% in April
Reuters backs £8.7bn Thomson takeover  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Canadian publishing giant Thomson Corporation today agreed the formal £8.7bn takeover of Reuters, the London-based news and financial agency
Market report: Tuesday latest  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
13.00:Bids worth almost £20bn in FTSE 100 companies landed on City desks today, with the promise ofmore to come
Sellers dash to beat home packs  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Sellers hoping to beat the arrival of home information packs have finally staged a late dash to the market in the run up to the June 1 launch
Bolton replacement unveiled  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Fund giant Fidelity has finally unveiled Sanjeev Shah as the replacement for legendary fund manager Anthony Bolton
Hanson agrees to £8bn German offer  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
FTSE 100 building supplies group Hanson today agreed to be bought for £9.5bn by Germany's HeidelbergCement
Wooden spoon for British Gas  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
British Gas continues to be the least popular fuel supplier, according to a major customer satisfaction survey published today
Nissan deal to create 4,000 jobs  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Car giant Nissan today announced a deal with a developer which will see the creation of up to 4,000 jobs
Home-info packs VAT bombshell  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
House sellers will face a VAT bill totalling £110m a year with the introduction of Home Information Packs, it was claimed yesterday
Bank worker gets four years for ID fraud  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
A bank insider who helped identity thieves steal £2.3m from wealthy customers was jailed for four years today
Homes rise £20,000 in a year  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The cost of a home is continuing to rise at more than 10% per year, according to official figures, with the average property costing £20,000 more than a year ago
Home chip and Pin next step in fraud war  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Online shoppers could soon be required to use 'chip and Pin' machines in their own homes in a bid to tackle internet fraud
Berlusconi group pays £2.45bn for Endemol  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
A consortium including former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has won the €3.5bn (£2.45bn) auction for Big Brother television production house Endemol.
Plastic bags on the way out at Waitrose  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Shoppers will have to take their own carrier bags to a Waitrose store from today when the supermarket stops giving away free plastic bags
High St squeeze as shoppers stay away  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
London is braced for a High Street bloodbath as rising interest rates slam the brakes on sales
'Green' Tesco's Swiss tax dodge  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Hidden away in Burglen, a tiny hamlet in Switzerland, is the new hub of Tesco's multi-million pound tax-dodging operation
Secret British Gas nuclear plans  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Centrica, parent company of British Gas, has opened secret talks with French energy giants EDF and Areva about building nuclear power stations in Britain
A-Z of Sunday newspapers  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Here's our weekly round-up of some of the biggest news stories from the financial world this Sunday| Sunday newspaper share tips
ITV admits new phone-in blunder  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
ITV has confessed to yet another quiz show gaffe after allegedly cheating hundreds of callers to a show broadcast on Freeview, the free-to-air digital broadcast system
Dutch disease hurts ABN  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The fight for ABN Amro is going to be a long, drawn- out affair. Any hope that John Varley and Barclays had of bouncing investors into a quick deal have vanished in a cloud of legal smoke
30 second guide toLanding slots  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mails City team take a look at the car parking slots for planes that are traded for millions on a grey market between airlines
Renold in shape to boost margins  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's influential stock-picker says that chain maker Reynold can be successfully turned around
Genius, but not as we know it  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
A first-class mind, according to F. Scott Fitzgerald, is one capable of holding two contradictory notions without cracking up.
Hetherington: Get some answers before buying  [05/15/2007 01:17 PM]
Every week readers' champion Tony Hetherington investigates your problems - this week a dodgy financial advice firm and some carelessness from Abbey