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Housing market will 'grind to a halt' [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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The housing market will come to a standstill next year as aggressive interest-rate hikes finally start to bite, a leading forecasting group has warned
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Oil profits soar as $100 barrel is forecast [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Analysts today predicted crude oil would approach $100-a-barrel by the end of the year, as oil giants prepare to report huge profits
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Market report: Monday latest [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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13.00:Takeovers and mergers in the financial sector were back on the agenda among City investors today, enabling the stock market to enjoy a positive start to the week
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Friends and Resolution confirm deal talks [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Two of the UK's biggest life insurers - Friends Provident and Resolution - today confirmed they were in talks over a possible £8.3bn merger
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Extra 3m homes to ease housing crisis [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Plans to ease Britain's property problems with the most interventionist tactics since the building boom of the 1960s will be revealed by the Government today
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Hotel chain scraps porn channels [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Budget hotel chain Travelodge is to scrap the adult TV service on its in-room television sets, it announced today
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Emap and C4 to launch TV music channel [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Media group Emap today unveiled a joint venture with broadcaster Channel 4 aimed at creating the UK's number one music television provider
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The £14bn fashion for fakes [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Two-thirds of us are happy to buy designer rip-offs, but may not be aware we are helping to fund organised crime when we do
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Far East stake to boost Barclays' ABN bid [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Barclays today lifted its bid for ABN Amro with substantial backing from two new Far Eastern investors and announced that first-half earnings rose by 14%
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The train ticket lottery [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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New research shows some train operators charge four times as much as others for journeys over the same distance
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Harry flies off the shelves [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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The final instalment of Harry Potter's adventures is Britain's fastest-selling book ever
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A to Z of the Sunday papers [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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We read the Sunday papers so you don't have to. Here's our round-up of the big stories doing the rounds in the business sections this week
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BoE boss wants house prices in inflation [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Governor of the Bank of England has admitted he is 'surprised' that rising house prices are not included in the official inflation figures, according the BBC
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£2bn extra to bag Sainsbury's [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Middle East investor bidding for Sainsbury's will have to raise its offer by nearly £2bn if it is to win the support of the supermarket group's founding family
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City boom spells home loan gloom [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Millions of people face mortgage misery because of the inflationary effect of the boom in the City, it will be claimed tomorrow, even though house prices are already starting to cool
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ITV's Grade squares up for phone lines battle [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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ITV boss Michael Grade is on collision course with media regulator Ofcom as he faces a grilling from MPs this week in the growing row over TV phone-ins
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SFO 'likely to shun US over arms probe' [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britain is expected to coldshoulder a request from American authorities for co-operation with their inquiry into bribery allegations regarding defence giant BAE Systems
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Labour's act of pensions spite fails thousands [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Government's decision to kill off proposals that would finally provide fair compensation to 125,000 victims of failed pension schemes was the action of a spiteful administration
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Class war that could hurt us all [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Once in a while, a connection can be drawn between two apparently unrelated pieces of information
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Cut down this man of straw at Sainsbury's [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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having seen off an approach from a private equity group only weeks ago, this venerable company faces another upstart predator
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Keep an eye on Umeco, the god of small things [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Keep an eye on Umeco, the god of small things
Building an aircraft is not a simple process. The engine alone has about 15,000 parts and each has to be in the right place at the right time to make sure it can be put together efficiently and cost-effectively
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£500 debt stalks a mother as chatoic CSA crumbles [07/23/2007 01:17 PM]
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Every week, Tony Hetherington replies to readers' problems. This week he helps sort a CSA disaster and tracks down some missing Isa savings
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