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Investigation: Is this a 'boiler room' sting? - Boiler-rooms sting investors for millions of pounds every year, despite attempts to crack down. This is Money investigates one reader's experience



Investigation: Is this a 'boiler room' sting?  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Boiler-rooms sting investors for millions of pounds every year, despite attempts to crack down. This is Money investigates one reader's experience
Bradford & Bingley 'on the edge'  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
While the country focuses on HBOS and Lloyds, Bradford & Bingley has seen a measure of its risk soar
Weekly market: The week the banks fell  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
After one of the most turbulent weeks the finance world has seen, some banks emerged intact but others fell...then Friday brought soaring stock markets around the world
Credit crunch hits the super-rich's pockets  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The credit crunch has left hundreds of billionaires crying into their Ming vases after a tough year on the markets
Shares soar in Footsie's best one-day rise  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The stock market staged a spectacular 'freaky Friday' comeback today to end the most tumultuous week in the City for 80 years
Chancellor facing £7bn in tax shortfall  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Tax receipts are tumbling because of the hit to the banking industry, lower profits and falling stamp duty
Paulson hits out as US launches rescue bid  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
United States regulation of the financial system was damned today as not up to the job by the man charged with a rescue bid that experts fear will cost the taxpayer up to $2 trillion
Fuel falls 3p a litre in Morrisons price war  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Morrisons started a fuel price war yesterday by slashing 3p a litre off its petrol and diesel prices
Nannies first to go after City job losses  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
With London's bankers realing after the events of the past week, the luxuries are the first thing to go
Doubts raised over positive High St figures  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Have the Government's bean counters got their numbers wrong again? Judging by the latest official retail data, the answer is yes
Goldman and Morgan Stanley on the ropes  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The last two independent investment banks on Wall Street were today engulfed by the banking crisis.
HBOS takeover: Fears for jobs and branches  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
There were fears of huge job losses and branch closures today as Lloyds TSB confirmed its emergency £12.2bn rescue of Britain's biggest mortgage lender
Economic turmoil to bring 'avalanche of job losses'  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
A grim cocktail of rising unemployment, plunging job vacancies and below-inflation pay rises were signalled in official figures yesterday
Doubts over strength of Lloyds-HBOS superbank  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The City reacted coolly to Lloyds TSBs takeover of HBOS today with analysts questioning the strength of the so-called superbanks balance sheet
Oil price falls 40% but petrol rises 10p  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Petrol prices are increasing despite huge falls in the cost of oil in recent months
Directors who let everyone at HBOS down  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
FSA's curb is necessary, right and overdue  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Hetherington: Unlucky share dealings  [09/20/2008 01:17 PM]