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Home information packs hit by new fiasco - Mortgage lenders are telling homebuyers they will have pay for own property searches because they do not trust new Hips Markets calmer after false alarm - Calm appeared be returning global stock markets today after tumultuous two weeks of panic selling around world, with fears over £314m bank loan false alarm



Home information packs hit by new fiasco  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Mortgage lenders are telling homebuyers they will have to pay for their own property searches because they do not trust the new Hips
Markets calmer after false alarm  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Calm appeared to be returning to global stock markets today after a tumultuous two weeks of panic selling around the world, with fears over a £314m bank loan a false alarm
Market report: Wednesday latest  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
12.30A state-owned Singapore investment vehicle has taken advantage of the recent weakness in bank shares to top up its holding in Standard Chartered
High Street banks face huge bailout bill  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Major banks face having to deploy massive sums from their balance sheets after the UK's biggest mortgage lender was forced to find £310m in emergency financing
Ryanair fury over advert ban  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Ryanair today hit back at 'stupid' advertising watchdogs and attacked Eurostar rail services as 'a waste of time and money'
One in six soon to be on a debts blacklist  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The global credit crunch will see a sharp rise in the number of Britons put on a debt blacklist and denied mortgages, loans and credit cards, experts claim
£5m lotto winner wished on a star  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
A shooting star raced across the night sky as Paul Hardware and his son Matthew strolled out of their local snooker club
£14bn National Savings has best-ever year  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Extra £1m Premium Bond jackpots, a top-rated tax-free Isa and Sir Alan Sugar all helped NS&I to achieve a record-breaking year
Tycoon abandons Maserati in car pound  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
A City tycoon who ran up thousands of pounds of motoring fines abandoned his £80,000 supercar in a pound for three months - because he was too busy to collect it
ChoicesUK collapse could cost 1,650 jobs  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Video-rental chain ChoicesUK bowed to the inevitable today, admitting it will go into administration with the potential loss of 1,650 jobs
Interflora website 'rips off' customers  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Flower delivery firm Interflora was accused today of ripping off consumers over the internet
Virgin Media boss in shock resignation  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Virgin Media Chief Executive Steve Burch has stood down with immediate effect citing family reasons, in the latest blow to hit the troubled British cable operator
Travel claims soar after BA baggage mess  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Travel insurance claims for lost luggage have soared in the wake of the British Airways baggage crisis that has left a backlog of 22,000 bags
Go-ahead for £400m gas-fired power station  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
A £400m gas-fired power station which will create 650 skilled jobs in Newport, Wales was given the final go-ahead today
City focus: Has property run out of steam?  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Record mortgage lending, bumper tax revenues and buoyant money supply growth were reported in July, but is it the end of the bull run for the UK housing market
Brands boosted by healthy choices  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Leading brands Kellogg's, Coca-Cola and Walkers have leaped in the public's affections on the back of campaigns to promote their health credentials
Housebuilders defy rate-rise buffeting  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Housebuilders today delivered a bullish update on the housing market despite rising interest rates and the shake-out of financial markets
London falls 'could signal property slump'  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Asking prices for homes in London - seen as the engine of the property market across the country - have fallen for the first time in a year
The great cover-up  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Just as you thought the endowment mis-selling scandal might be drawing to a close, another aspect has reared its head
Midas: Now is not the time to sell shares  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's top stock-picker says investors should sit tight through the market turmoil
The unravelling credit line  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The days when the UK's big banks could ignore concerns about their exposure to the US mortgage meltdown are over
30 second guide to unclaimed assets  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mail City Team look at unclaimed assets
Hetherington: Golden Goal ... at the wrong end  [08/22/2007 01:17 PM]
Financial Mail's readers' champion attempts to unravel the obscure trail left by Golden Goal International