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Property prices 'to soar 40% by 2012' [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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House prices will rise 40% over the next five years, making the average property worth more than £300,000, it is claimed today
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Banks under fire for new-listings debacle [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Investors in new stock market listings run by Merrill Lynch have lost a staggering £1.6bn this year, figures show today
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Market report: Monday latest [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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13.00:ICI has agreed to open its books to Dutch giant Akzo Nobel and that helped drive the price up 8p today to a new high of 639½p
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Brits have 52m old mobiles lying around [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britons are collectively hoarding more than 52m unused mobile phones worth £1.1bn, research showed today
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Europe to end TV phone-in quizzes [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Britain's beleaguered phone-in quiz show industry faces the axe thanks to an imminent court decision, with the European courts due to bring an end to the shows
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More pensioners living in poverty [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Average income from company pension schemes fell last year while the number of elderly people living in poverty rose, official figures show
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Post Office hush money for branch mergers [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Post Office bosses were accused of a second blackmail after staff were offered £1,000 bonuses to keep quiet about branch mergers
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What now for bank charges? [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Banks last week announced £21bn half-year profits, but a bank charges test case has left customers in limbo with extortionate charges still being applied. Helen Loveless investigates
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A to Z of the Sunday newspapers [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Here's our summary of what the business papers are reporting from the financial world this Sunday
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Fidelity makes company pensions plea [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Fidelity International will call on Gordon Brown for an urgent change in the law to save what is left of Britain's envied system of final salary works pensions
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New risk for troubled firms [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Attempts to rescue troubled companies and save jobs are facing sabotage by a new breed of creditor with a vested interest in the firms' liquidation
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The middle class money boom [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Middle class families have seen their earnings rise at double the rate of increases in living costs in 10 years. Average income is now £36,000
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Floods send home insurance bills up 10% [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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A leading insurer is to send house insurance premiums soaring by about 10% in the wake of last month's floods
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Energy firms cleared to lock in customers [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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The official regulator has given gas and electricity companies the green light to tie consumers into contracts that prevent them from switching
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Fresh furore over 'impossible' Sports Direct [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Two scathing reports from senior City analysts have further damaged the battered credibility of Mike Ashley's Sports Direct empire
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RBS-NatWest surges to record profits [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Royal Bank of Scotland, owner of NatWest and Churchill, saw its first half profits rise to a record £5.1bn despite hits from reclaimed bank charges and floods
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Dreams are real return on Premium Bonds [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Premium Bonds may not deliver the greatest retrun on investment but they do bring one thing most other financial products fail to - the dream of a life-changing event
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Midas: New dogs off to poor start [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Three months ago the Midas Dogs of the Footsie was begun again from scratch, so how are the stocks faring?
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Hetherington: British Gas bullying and travel insurance failures [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail's ace investigator takes on British Gas' widespread failings and says the firm's actions are akin to demanding money with menaces
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We lost the plot on farming [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Food prices are on the up highlighting the importance of maintaining Britain's agriculture in the face of tough pressures
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Get a grip by breaking BAA's hold [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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The chorus of outrage at the atrocious standards at Heathrow will not go away until the virtual monopoly controlled by BAA, now in the ownership of Spain's Ferrovial, is dismembered
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Small cap share tips: IBS Opensystems [08/06/2007 01:17 PM]
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Our small caps experts reveal the Aim stocks that are set to fly or dive. This week IBS is a strong buybut steer clear of Corero
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