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Watchdog lays into Sky over ITV stake [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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James Murdoch's BSkyB was dealt a major blow today after the Competition Commission said its 17.9% stake in ITV posed a threat to competition
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Tesco juggernaut shrugs off bad weather [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Tesco shrugged off wet weather and better performance from rivals to push profits up 18% to £1.3bn in the first half of the year
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Market report: Tuesday latest [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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13.00:Shares in troubled mortgage lender Northern Rock suffered another big sell-off today, with more than a million shares changing hands in minutes
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EBay 'paid too much' for Skype [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Online auctioneer eBay today admitted it had paid too much for internet telephone service Skype in 2005
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BBC spends £75m on Lonely Planet [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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BBC Worldwide is paying around £75m to take control of offbeat travel publisher Lonely Planet
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Will fuel tax rises bring back blockades? [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Hauliers'' leaders last night warned of a return to the blockades after Gordon Brown slapped the first of three tax rises on fuel that sent the price up to around £1 a litre
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Stamp duty revenue up by 40% [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Stamp duty revenues soared by 40% during the past tax year to reach a record £6.4bn, figures showed today
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Tory pledge to raise IHT limit to £1m [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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A dramatic pledge to raise the inheritance tax threshold to £1m and free most families from it spearheaded the Tory fight-back today
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Banks 'might pay' for savings guarantee [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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A new regime guaranteeing an individual's bank and building society savings up to £35,000 may ultimately have to be funded by the banking industry, the Chancellor has indicated
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Rock falls to a new low as bid hopes fade [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Shares in strife-torn Northern Rock crashed to a new low of 144½p at one point today as hopes of a takeover faded and one leading analyst slashed his price target from 300p to just 100p
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For £850, the TV screen as thin as a coin [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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It is the thinnest television screen yet created - about the same width as a coin and has 'organic' technology for a best ever LCD picture
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Mortgage approvals slumped in August [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Mortgage approvals tumbled in August as the credit crunch and higher interest rates hit demand
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Two win £1m Premium Bond prizes [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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A man living in London and another in Manchester have each scooped the £1m jackpot prizes in the October Premium Bond draw
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Race to be greenest generator warms up [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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The battle to become Britain's greenest power producer warmed up today as Scottish & Southern Energy announced billion-pound plans to clean up its generation portfolio
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Hundreds of UBS City jobs face axe [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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UBS today said it will sack hundreds of City bankers by Christmas, after the subprime crisis in the US pushed it into its first loss for nine years
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The NHS man who should have spotted Northern Rock's ill-health [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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He's intelligent, well-loved and respected, so why did Sir Derek Wanless miss the crisis unfolding in his boardroom?
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How about some pension justice, Gordon [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Northern Rock savers were protected in three days so if the Prime Minister truly believes in fairness and justice, it is time for him to deliver both to the 125,000 pension victims
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Midas: Walker Greenbank; BG Group [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Financial Mail's top stock picker investigates the wallpaper and fabric business that manufactures some of the best-known brands in the market
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Dow defies credit clusters [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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Right across the globe the losses from this summer's credit crunch are mounting. Like cluster bombs, you are never quite sure which target is going to be hit or when but the damage is devastating
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30 second guide to ethical investing [10/02/2007 01:17 PM]
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The Daily Mail City Team look at ethical investing
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