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Britons fear saving with foreign banks [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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British savers have rushed to withdraw money from foreign banks and many more are planning to steer clear of them
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FTSE 100 dives as looming recession bites [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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Market round-up: The FTSE 100 plunged as grim economic figures and big losses in the Far East spelt more bad news for the UK's economy
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Market report: Friday close [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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17.00:The collateral damage to shares caused by the banking crisis has been laid bare for stock-market investors by Cazenove in its latest UK strategy briefing
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Icesave savers to get fast-track refunds [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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More than 200,000 savers with the UK branch of Icesave will get back their savings in November through a fast-track refund scheme, the FSCS has said.
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Opec curb on output fails to halt crude slide [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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Saudi-led attempts to rig the oil market today failed dismally as global prices of crude continued to plunge on fears of a slump in worldwide demand
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Pound and FTSE 100 plunge on economic figures and recession fears [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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City analysts have warned that Britain could be facing a severe recession as 'truly dire' official figures revealed that the economy is contracting much faster than expected
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HBOS shares crash to half rescue price [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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HBOS shares today crashed to almost half the price at which the Government has offered to buy them
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Home owners desperately seeking buyers [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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With house sales plummeting by up to 60% in the capital, we went to New Kings Road Fulham to find out just how bad things are for prospective sellers
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Pension victory for ½m women after U-turn [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hundreds of thousands of women will win the right to a full state pension after a government change allowing them to top-up National Insurance payments
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Volvo truck sales plunge 99.7% [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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The depth of the recession was revealed today as truckmaker Volvo admitted demand across the Continent has crashed by 99.7%
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Slimmed-down Royal Mail posts £177m profit [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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Profits at the Royal Mail have more than doubled amid deep cuts in services and 2,500 post office closures
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Candy bros to sell Chelsea barracks stake [10/25/2008 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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'Downturn could be the worst in 50 years' [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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A former Bank of England official gives a pessimistic prognosis as figures are expected to show the economy has shrunk for the first time in 16 years
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Rock staff get £50m despite bonus pledge [10/25/2008 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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Property website cuts staff as sales slump [10/25/2008 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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600 jobs axed at Goldman Sachs [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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Investment bank Goldman Sachs is sacking 10% of its UK headquarters' workforce, in one of the largest City job culls since the start of the crunch
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With-profits investors kicked again [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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Why Asia buy would be Pru coup [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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Five years ago, AIG was worth more than the combined value of the eight largest insurers. Today, the business is on the block, only just surviving by way of an $80bn bailout
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Shameless spin from banks' sinless wonders [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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The dollar returns to sender [10/25/2008 01:17 PM]
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When the crunch first became a reality, many said that even if Western democracies fell into recession, the world would be saved by the robustness of emerging market
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