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£125bn black hole: Public borrowing will rocket as tax receipts plunge [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Exclusive:A deep and painful recession will cost the Government £125bn in lost tax receipts and blow a massive hole in the already creaking public finances
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Rock staff get £50m despite bonus pledge [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Workers at the failed bank Northern Rock will scoop bonuses worth up to £50m over the next three years
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Market report: Thursday latest [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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12.00:Stockbroker Merrill Lynch fears there may be further pain for housebuilders following the most dramatic slump in the housing market for twenty years
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Property website cuts staff as sales slump [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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The crisis facing estate agents deepened today when the country's leading property website axed more than a fifth of its workforce
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Oil below $70 on demand worry [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Oil prices edged up today ahead of an Opec meeting tomorrow but remained well below $70 on fears demand will shrink as recession bites
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Candy bros to sell Chelsea barracks stake [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy have been in negotiations over the sale of their stake in the £1bn Chelsea Barracks, the Evening Standard can reveal
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Google set for phone wars with launch of G1 [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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War between makers of smart phones broke out in America yesterday as Google launched the G1 in conjunction with T-Mobile.
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High Street heads for a bleak Christmas [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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The High Street is headed for the emergency room this Christmas, according to the latest in-depth survey of the health of the retail sector
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Barnsley BS to merge with Yorkshire [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Yorkshire and Barnsley building societies have announced they are to merge, but there are no plans to give members a cash windfall
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Sterling dive lifts hopes of rate cut [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Sterling took its biggest one-day dive for 16 years as speculation mounts that the Bank of England will slash interest rates again next month
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House prices 'heading for 35% drop' [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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House prices will fall a record-breaking 35% by next autumn, economists have warned, wiping around £65,000 off the average house value
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Bills must be cut in winter says watchdog [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Energy companies are coming under huge pressure to cut bills this winter following the recent dramatic fall in oil prices
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Switch to sovereign funds, says Sarkozy [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Nicolas Sarkozy backed plans for Europeans to set sovereign wealth funds to take stakes in stricken companies and protect them from 'predators'
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Libor lowest since collapse of Lehman [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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The interest rates banks charge each other for short-term loans fell to their lowest since before Lehman Brothers failed
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Insurers hit millions of savers with exit fees [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Millions of savers with nest eggs could lose thousands of pounds as insurance companies introduce exit-fee charges for those who withdraw money
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With-profits investors kicked again [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Negative equity's only a problem if you have to sell [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Shameless spin from banks' sinless wonders [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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Sterling: A blessing in disguise [10/23/2008 01:17 PM]
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