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Rate hikes 'putting brakes on property'

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Rate hikes 'putting brakes property' - House price inflation more halved June as higher interest rates weakened homebuyer demand, an influential property report revealed today Brown fails tackle tax credits fiasco - Gordon Brown failed stop fraud error his flagship tax credits system costing Britain around £1bn year, Treasury will admit today



Rate hikes 'putting brakes on property'  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
House price inflation more than halved in June as higher interest rates weakened homebuyer demand, an influential property report revealed today
Brown fails to tackle tax credits fiasco  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown failed to stop fraud and error in his flagship tax credits system costing Britain around £1bn a year, the Treasury will admit today
Market report: Thursday latest  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
12.15:Mining companies and the soaring cost of raw materials were put back on the agenda by stock market investors today following Rio Tinto's swoop for Alcan
End to 'automatic' loan cover  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Loan and credit card companies will no longer be able to push borrowers into taking out expensive loan insurance by automatically adding the cover to online quotes
The penalty for a longer life  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The pensions system is facing a crisis because people are living longer than official estimates
Heathrow could lose European crown  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Heathrow is in danger of losing its status as Europe's leading airport as thousands of passengers switch to rival facilities
Microsoft voted UK's top brand  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Microsoft has beaten Coca-Cola to scoop the title of the UK's number one brand, according to a poll out today
Whole Foods boss launched blog attack on rival  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The American boss of Whole Foods Market was today exposed as an undercover blogger who tried to damage a company he later bought
Boom in £1,000 private jet flights  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Well-heeled leisure travellers are ousting business tycoons and footballers to become the most frequent flyers on private jets, it was revealed today
Rio Tinto in £18bn swoop for Alcan  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The fight to dominate the world metals market flared up again today as London-listed Rio Tinto made a £18.2bn all-cash offer for Canadian aluminium giant Alcan
Ming's plan to make middle class better off  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Sweeping changes to stamp duty and inheritance tax to benefit many middle income families are to be proposed by the Liberal Democrats today
How Burberry bagged itself a success story  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
How Burberry bagged itself a success story A handbag modelled by Kate Moss has helped drive a 30% rise in Burberry's sales
Brown set to scrap supercasinos  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Manchester felt like it had won the lottery but lost the winning ticket today, after the Prime Minister poured cold water on its Supercasino victory
Affordable homes top of Brown's agenda  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Prime Minister Gordon Brown today announced that measures to help people get on the housing ladder will top the Government's policy agenda
Debt enquiries soaring  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
A record number of people sought advice over debt concerns during the first half of 2007, figures today indicated
Banks breached privacy rules  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Orange, Barclays, NatWest and several other High Street banks are listed among a 'horrifying' number of organisations who breached data protection rules
Insurers hunt ship to house flood victims  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Families left stricken by the floods in the North East face being housed in passenger ferries by insurers struggling to deal with thousands of claims, according to reports
Panic selling hits property funds  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Two of Britain's biggest property funds have stunned investors by slashing the value of their units
Not quite, Darling  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Alistair Darling really must learn to do his homework. This week he announced that he wants more longterm fixed-rate mortgages, when there are already 141 such products out there
Greifeld extracts a revenge  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
Nasdaq has finally found a way of exercising its power over the London Stock Exchange
30 second guide toCovered bonds  [07/12/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail City desk take a look at the mechanism Gordon Brown hopes will encourage the issuing of more long-term fixed rate mortgages