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Lenders call end super-size mortgages - Mortgages which let people borrow more value of home are being dramatically scrapped
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| Lenders call end to super-size mortgages [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
Mortgages which let people borrow more than the value of their home are being dramatically scrapped
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| No quick rate cut to bail out house prices [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
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Bank of England rate setter Kate Barker says the property downturn is speeding up, but dampens hopes of a rate cut next month
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| Market report: Wednesday latest [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
12.45:Stock market bears regained the upper hand today, driving share prices lower and wiping out much of the gains achieved during the past few days
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| Taxpayer saddled with 'leftover' Rock assets [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
Taxpayer have been left with Northern Rock's 'rubbish' assets because its safest mortgages were hived off before nationalisation, MPs claimed today
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| Alliance & Leicester profits tumble 29% [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
Shares in A&L slumped to a record low as the bank unveiled a slump in profits and warned of a tough year ahead
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| British Gas profits up 570% as prices soar [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
British Gas faces a consumer backlash as it prepares to unveil a 570% increase in profits, despite claiming it needed to hike bills by 15%
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| BA passengers hit by baggage meltdown [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
Thousands of passengers - mostly with BA - face customer service chaos and travel insurance claims after losing bags due to a meltdown at Heathrow
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| Coming to your local pub soon: the £4 pint [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
The average price of a pint of beer is likely to hit the £4 mark, the drinks industry said yesterday
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| Toshiba scraps HD as Blu-ray wins DVD battle [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
Toshiba announced today that it will stop promoting its HD DVD format, after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony
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| The 2,183 streets with £1m-plus homes [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
More than 2,000 streets have homes costing at least £1m on average - with the £1m-plus price bracket rising faster than any other price band
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| Porsche threatens legal action over £25 C-charge [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
Ken Livingstone is facing a full-scale legal challenge to his plan to charge gas-guzzling cars £25 day in congestion charging
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| Care home bills 'to hit £1,000 a week' [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
The average care home bill is predicted to double to more than £1,000 a week as fees race ahead of the general rate of inflation
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| Barclays' bad luck | Northern Rock pay-offs [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
| Barclays was unfortunate that Credit Suisse owned up to £1.5bn of previously unreported credit losses just as the bank revealed some highly commendable figures |
| More nasty surprises lurking in bank crisis [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
| How can we believe the banks are on top of their problems when they don't know how deep a hole they are in? |
| Be thankful for mutuals when banks go bust [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
| Many people in the North-East will be wondering whether Northern Rock should ever have floated on the stock market |
| 30 second guide to bank rescues [02/20/2008 01:17 PM] |
| With Northern Rock the first UK bank to be rescued by the Bank of England since the bail-out of National Home Loans, the Daily Mail City team explains bank rescues |