The number of mortgages approved November by country's High Street banks was down almost 44% same month last year, according official data For sale signs "> Britain's mortgage lending slump drags - The number of mortgages approved November by country's High Street banks was down almost 44% same month last year, according official data For sale signs ">

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Big sales stampede starts before dawn - Shoppers queued before 4am as post-Christmas sales got into full swing today. More 500,000 bargain hunters descended big stores London's West End Bargain hunters at sales Britain's mortgage lending slump drags - The number of mortgages approved November by country's High Street banks was down almost 44% same month last year, according official data For sale signs



Big sales stampede starts before dawn  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Shoppers queued before 4am as the post-Christmas sales got into full swing today. More than 500,000 bargain hunters descended on the big stores in London's West End Bargain hunters at the sales
Britain's mortgage lending slump drags on  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
The number of mortgages approved in November by the country's High Street banks was down almost 44% on the same month last year, according to official data For sale signs
Market report: Thursday latest  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
13:00:Oil shares have been ticking better on both sides of the Atlantic this week as crude prices nudged towards $100 a barrel ahead of the latest US energy reserves numbers Mickey Clark, City journalist for Evening Standard.
Tesco Mobile 'could be put out of business'  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Tesco's joint venture with O2 could cease to be viable under network shake-up plans from telecoms regulator Ofcom, it was claimed today Tesco Mobile
No early end in sight to credit crunch  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
A double whammy of bleak news from across the Atlantic dispelled hopes that the credit crunch may begin to ease early in the New Year Warren Buffett
Pension plans are back in the black  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Britain's biggest companies have finally managed to wipe out the deficits that have dogged them since the dotcom crash seven years ago Pension protest
Property confidence crash as 75% see falls  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Confidence in the property market has crashed with three quarters of people predicting house price falls in 2008 - and just one in five believing the average home will rise in value For sale rate
Bank rate may be cut four times in 2008  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Interest rates are likely to be cut four times next year as the Bank of England tries to counter weak growth in the economy, experts believe Bank of England
House prices falling fastest in three years  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Confidence in the property market is 'in reverse', with house prices falling faster than they have done in three years, a property information specialist claimed today Houses with price graph
Rip-off web ticket touts face clampdown  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
An inquiry by MPs into online ticket touting will find that sites such as eBay are colluding with gangs to obtain seats for top events, which are then sold to fans at rip-off prices, a report claimed today Led Zeppelin Concert
Online delivery failure hits Christmas  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Hundreds of thousands of families face bitter disappointment on Christmas morning because presents bought online have not been delivered Christmas Shopping
Travel company collapse hits 40,000  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Furious customers last night attacked a holiday firm boss for failing to warn them his company was about to collapse - wrecking the plans of 40,000 holidaymakers Beach
£1,000-a-year fuel bills on their way  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Gas and electricity bills are set to rise above £1,000 once more in 2008 as suppliers gear up for a new round of punishing price increases gas bill
Treasury website targeted by fraudsters  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Fraudsters using a Government website to steal the identities of people who die without leaving a will are being investigated by Scotland Yard
FSA is still on the ball after 10 years  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
Despite Northern Rock slipping through its fingers, one goal against in a decade is not a bad scoresheet for the nation's financial goalkeeper
Darling's rivers of red ink  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
The Chancellor yesterday issued a blood curdling warning to big spending ministers and public sector employees on the need to say 'no'. Now we can understand why
30 second guide to profit forecasts  [12/27/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mails City desk take a look at the number crunchers who help value shares