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Midas share tips: HBOS rights issue [05/08/2008 10:46 AM]
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The Financial Mail on Sunday's respected stock picker asks if Halifax shares are worth holding on to following news of its £4bn rights issue
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Building societies in the line of fire [05/08/2008 10:46 AM]
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Amid all the focus on write-downs and rights issues at high street banks, the woes of the building societies have received little attention
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Bill will give new rights to shoppers [05/08/2008 10:46 AM]
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A bill of consumer rights that entitles buyers 'to get what they pay for' will be proposed today by the Government  
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£1m homes are biggest bargains [05/08/2008 10:45 AM]
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The biggest casualties of the slump in the housing market are sellers of £1m homes, estate agents said yesterday  
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RBS ends free banking for small firms [05/08/2008 10:45 AM]
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Fees introduced by Royal Bank of Scotland could spell the end of free banking for small businesses across the UK  
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Designer clothes for Oxfam prices [05/08/2008 10:45 AM]
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Oxfam is opening a chain of boutiques which will sell only the best of donated items, alongside Fairtrade clothes, jewellery and unique items that have been reworked by young designers  
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Market report: Thursday latest [05/08/2008 10:45 AM]
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10.00:Enterprise Inns ran into profit-taking following yesterday's announcement that the pub chain is eligible to convert into a real estate investment trust (Reit)  
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Average family wastes £610 food a year [05/08/2008 10:45 AM]
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The average family throws £610 of perfectly good food away each year, adding up to £10bn of waste across the country.  
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FSA chief tells mutuals to sharpen up [05/07/2008 06:12 PM]
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Building societies need to be robust and raise their game, Hector Sants, chief executive of City watchdog the FSA, has warned  
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Market report: Wednesday close [05/07/2008 06:12 PM]
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17.00:Rugby-playing baked-beans king Tony O'Reilly has spent another €1.25m (£813,500) topping up his holding in Independent News & Media 
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£6m divi for design gurus to super-rich [05/07/2008 04:00 PM]
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The Candy brothers paid themselves a £6m dividend last year as their property empire continued to grow  
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Pound drops as bets go on a new rate cut [05/07/2008 03:59 PM]
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The pound tumbled against the dollar and the euro today as traders gambled on the Bank of England cutting interest rates again  
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Insuring a future in the risk business [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Investment banks and insurance underwriters are both in the risk business, but they approach it in very different ways and with an eye to very different profit margins
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BoE: Give Mervyn the weapons [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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After the Northern Rock debacle, when the Financial Services Authority failed miserably, it might be wise to steer clear of turf wars. But not a bit of it
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This annuity confusion is far from 'open' [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Buying an annuity is a make-or-break decision. Pick the best deal, or you'll be thousands of pounds worse off, so why isn't it made clearer to people?
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Cut-price grocery chains cash in [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Budget food stores Aldi, Lidl and Netto are seeing sales surge as shoppers look for lower prices  
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One-price post service 'is under threat' [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Royal Mail's ability to deliver letters for the same price to every home in Britain is under 'substantial threat', a report has warned  
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Gloomy spring for agents as prime London prices dip [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Two London estate agents specialising in expensive property today gave a gloomy assessment of prices in the capital's most desirable areas  
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Rich agree to pre-nups to stop big payouts [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Pre-nuptial agreements are booming among wealthy couples desperate to avoid the expense of a messy contested divorce settlement  
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Surcharges back as agents pass on costs [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Hefty holiday surcharges are back for the first time since the late seventies because of the strength of the euro and the high price of fuel  
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Citigroup chief says worst of crisis is over [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Sir Win Bischoff, the chairman of Wall Street giant Citigroup, is the latest top banker to declare the worst of the credit crunch is over  
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Market report: Wednesday latest [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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15.50:Rugby-playing baked-beans king Tony O'Reilly has spent another €1.25m (£813,500) topping up his holding in Independent News & Media 
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Supply fears shoot oil to record high [05/07/2008 01:46 PM]
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Inflation worries worsened as the price of oil hit yet another record high, reaching $122 a barrel in New York  
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Watchdog pays its staff £14m bonus [05/07/2008 08:40 AM]
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The Financial Services Authority paid nearly £14m of bonuses to staff in the year it presided over the Northern Rock fiasco  
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Market report: Wednesday preview [05/07/2008 08:40 AM]
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Leading shares look set to open a touch higher, with quarterly numbers from British American Tobacco and InterContinental Hotels among the raft of earnings releases  
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