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Equitable holders face delay in cash fight [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Equitable Life policyholders can expect to wait at least three years before they will receive Government compensation
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Brown rejects 50% tax on high earners [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Downing Street today rejected calls for a new super-tax band on people earning more than £100,000
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Market report: Thursday latest [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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12.00:Bank shares featured five of the 10 best performers today as they made the most of a much needed rally in the aftermath of the market's recent sell-off
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Spectre of inflation haunts UK and US [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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A welter of grim economic reports on both sides of the Atlantic has underlined the threat to Western living standards posed by rising inflation
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Threat to free banking if fees are curbed [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Banks threatened an end to 'free' current accounts after they were accused of dirty tricks and stealth charges in a market that makes them £8bn a year
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Nationwide cuts mortgage rates [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Homeowners have seen a rare ray of light shine through the property gloom after Britain's biggest building society Nationwide cut its rates
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Shock as jobless total surges by most for 16 years [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Chancellor Alistair Darling was today dealt yet another blow as the economy was rocked by the worst unemployment figures for almost 16 years
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Chancellor scraps 2p rise in fuel duty [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Alistair Darling today scrapped the 2p increase in fuel duty, acting to quell motorists' anger with a week to go before the Glasgow East by-election
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Oil takes breather after big tumbles [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Oil prices remained flat today after yesterday's big falls, with US crude remaining near $135 a barrel
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Government to buy houses builders can't sell [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Ministers today unveiled plans to buy up homes which housebuilders hit by the global economic downturn are unable to sell
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Credit crunch could hit Tories' tax cuts [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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A Conservative government may have to make public spending cuts if the economic gloom deepens, David Cameron signalled today
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Banks wobble as shares nosedive [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Billions of pounds were wiped off the value of UK banks today, raising fresh fears over HBOS's £4bn rights issue and Barclays' £4.5bn fund raising
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Big Brother project 'threat to privacy' [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Plans for a massive database snooping on the entire population were condemned yesterday as a 'step too far for the British way of life'
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'Rip-off ' cost of texting to UK could fall 70% [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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The cost of sending a text message home while in other parts of Europe could be slashed by more than 70%
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Wolseley to axe 6000 jobs as profits crash [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Six thousand jobs are being axed at Wolseley, the world's largest plumbing group, after profits crashed by hundreds of millions of pounds
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Why is Equitable Life so special? | A&L and Abbey [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Evil lurks as the Google halo slips over privacy [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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An acute need for new blood [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Reasons to believe oil prices may ease soon [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Midas share tips: Telecom Plus and Carrs [07/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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