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Interest rates held at 5.5% - The Bank of England has given borrowers homeowners breathing space by keeping interest rates hold Homes rise by just £500 May - House prices rose by just £500 May as homebuyers tightened belts, according Britains biggest mortgage lender



Interest rates held at 5.5%  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
The Bank of England has given borrowers and homeowners breathing space by keeping interest rates on hold
Homes rise by just £500 in May  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
House prices rose by just £500 in May as homebuyers tightened their belts, according Britains biggest mortgage lender
Market report: Thursday latest  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
12:25:City traders had little time to discuss anything but interest rates today, with most assuming that borrowing levels of 6% are a near certainty
House prices at 10 times salary  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Home ownership could be come an impossible dream for millions of young people within a few years, an independent housing body has warned
EasyJet continues price vow  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Budget airline easyJet today pledged to keep up the low-cost carrier price war throughout the peak summer season
Customers feel the overdraft squeeze  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Greedy banks have increased their overdraft interest rates well above Bank of England base rate rises over the past year
Shepherd sells Newcastle stake  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Newcastle United chairman Freddy Shepherd has agreed to sell his shares in the Barclays Premier League club to billionaire Mike Ashley
Lords back pension rescue boost  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Peers have voted in favour of a 'lifeboat fund' to help 125,000 workers who lost their final-salary pensions when their companies went bust
Vodafone to rebuff cashback call  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Vodafone today called an emergency board meeting to reject dramatic proposals from activist investors
Thousand-point crash warning for Footsie  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Investors should brace themselves for a stock market correction to rival the dot-com crash at the turn of the millennium, a top investment bank warned today
Organic store is problem for supermarkets  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Sales of organic products are predicted to soar by 50% in a boom triggered by the arrival of an American eco-supermarket in the UK
Barclays flouts rules on loan insurance  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Measures designed to give fairer refunds on loan protection insurance are failing, with banks continuing to offer paltry refunds on cancellation
Time to tame the private-equity monster  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Comment:They are locusts who feed on the favourable tax regime set up by Labour. Gordon Brown must act to expose their activities >> Private equity Q&A
Woolworths' demise predicted  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
City analysts today predicted the demise of Woolworths as a High Street presence just as the struggling outfit is poised to drop out of the FTSE 250
Private equity chiefs face tax crackdown  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown today promised to crack down on private equity firms from abusing Britain's generous tax regime
Dunstone: broadband TV is 'nuts'  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Carphone Warehouse boss Charles Dunstone is flying in the face of his rivals who are jostling to pipe sound and pictures into homes down highspeed Internet connections
Card giants hike cost of withdrawing cash  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Credit card companies are boosting their profits by increasing the cost of using a card to withdraw cash
End the pension bias  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
The Money Mail editor says the pensions system needs to be overhauled to make it fairer for women who contribute unpaid labour to the economy
GSK goes to Washington  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
When most firms make an error they normally pay the fine and and get on with the job. Because big pharma is a matter of life and death it is far more sensitive to regulation
30 second guide toVulture funds  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mails City desk examine the financiers that buy the debt of impoverished countries with the intention of extracting as much in interest as they can
Midas: Standard enjoys hotspots growth  [06/07/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's stockpicker Midas says that sentiment towards Standard Chartered has changed dramatically