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