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Call for 0% UK interest rate after Fed cut [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Pressure is mounting on the Bank of England to reduce interest rates to zero after the US Federal Reserve slashed its key interest rate from 1% to a range between zero and 0.25% last night
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Jobs bloodbath predicted for new year [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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The country was braced for a 'new year bloodbath' of job losses today after the number of unemployment benefit claims rose above a million for the first time in eight years
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Stock market report: Wednesday latest [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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12.00: The response of London shares to the Federal Reserve's move to cut rates was far less enthusiastic than that of their US counterparts
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FBI swoops on London loan shark [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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A millionaire London businessman is at the centre of an FBI probe into a loan shark scam that has allegedly duped thousands of people
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Sterling slips to new low against the euro [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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The pound tumbled to a record low against the euro today after it was revealed rate-setters considered even larger cuts than the 1% delivered this month
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BAA ordered to sell Gatwick and Stansted [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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BAA has been ordered to sell Gatwick and Stansted airports because of its history of poor service to passengers and airlines
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Savills' second profit warning in 3 months [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Savills issued its second profits warning in three months as chief Jeremy Helsby warned the bottom of the market was becoming increasingly hard to call
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Markets unimpressed by Fed rate cut [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Investors gave a muted response to last night's dramatic cut in US interest rates as fears over the state of the world economy played on their minds
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Lloyd's braced for claims after Madoff meltdown [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Insurers in the Lloyd's of London market are bracing themselves for a string of claims stemming the collapse of Bernard Madoff's fund
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Pensioners snared by interest rate trap [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Pensioners on low incomes are losing their entitlement to both Pension Credit and Council Tax Benefit because of the savage interest rate cuts
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Shock as US interest rates slashed to 0% [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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The US shocked the world last night by slashing interest rates to a historic low: its central bank, the Federal Reserve, set the official rate to between zero and 0.25%
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Scarborough and Skipton doubly covered [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Members of Scarborough and Skipton building societies will be doubly covered for savings compensation up following their merger next year
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Goldman cuts bonuses as losses hit $2.12bn [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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The once-mighty Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs today crashed to its first quarterly loss as a public company and slashed bonus payments for staff
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Mandelson's Royal Mail sell-off [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Foreign firms were vying to buy up large chunks of Royal Mail after it emerged that Lord Mandelson has drafted a £3bn plan to part-privatise the service
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Tens of thousands face pension cut in 2009 [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Tens of thousands of retired public sector workers will see their income drop by hundreds of pounds because of a pensions blunder
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Rewarding savers makes sense [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Ben thinks outside the box [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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They bought a dream, he Madoff with their money [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Siphoning off investment gains [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Hetherington: Licensed by the OFT...to cheat [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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£7bn taxpayer bail-out for post pensions? [12/17/2008 01:17 PM]
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Lord Mandelson is on a collision course with Labour MPs over the future of Royal Mail amid fears that he is preparing to partly privatise it
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