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Gift limits are top Christmas money saver - Britons have been tightening their belts in the run up to Christmas with many imposing a strict limit on what they are prepared to pay for presents



Gift limits are top Christmas money saver  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Britons have been tightening their belts in the run up to Christmas with many imposing a strict limit on what they are prepared to pay for presents
Mortgage rationing leaves borrowers stuck  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Mortgage rationing has left many borrowers unable to take advantage of interest rate cuts as lenders' margins on fixed and tracker rates have soared
Market round-up: Wall St scandal hits  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Weekly stock market report:The Madoff scandal rocked financials this week just in time for the new look FTSE 100 line-up
Pound 'set to bounce back to €1.20 in 2009'  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The pound could bounce back against the euro with a return to about £1 to €1.20 in the next six months, experts have suggested
Upbeat Brown tells City: We'll fight & win  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The Prime Minister today revealed that a White Paper on protecting London's position as the world's leading financial centre will be published in the New Year
Cabinet split over Jaguar bailout  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Car production has crashed by a third amid Cabinet tensions over a bailout to the foreign owners of Jaguar and Land Rover
Brown delivers grave oil-price warning  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Gordon Brown delivered a stark warning today that failure to tackle volatility in oil prices could cost the global economy trillions of dollars
High Street sales to begin on Christmas Eve  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Prices are to be slashed by up to 90 per cent as retailers battle to survive, with big brands such as B&Q, Superdrug and M&S announcing massive sales
Anglo Irish bosses quit over loans scandal  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Investors in Anglo Irish Bank were left reeling today after its top brass quit in a loans scandal in which chairman Sean FitzPatrick used the firm as an 87m (£81m) piggy bank
Madoff force hits funds to retrieve billions  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Nicola Horlick's Bramdean, Arkie Busson's EIM and Man Group were today named as potential targets of legal action in the Bernie Madoff $50bn (£32bn) Ponzi scandal
Banks paying quarter of savers 1% or less  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Savers have been hit hard by recent interest rate cuts, with one in four deposit accounts now paying returns of only up to 1%, figures showed today
Superdrug leads discount war with cuts of 90%  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Extreme sale discounts look set to sweep stores as Superdrug today announced it will slash prices by up to 90% from Boxing Day
City fall-out hits suburbs and commuter towns  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The impact of soaring unemployment on commuter towns, cities and suburbs in the South-East has been was revealed today
Repossessions to match 1990s peak  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Homeowners are facing a tough 2009 with mortgage lending going into reverse, the property slump continuing and repossessions hitting 1990s levels
Tycoon prepares to sue Coutts for 'losing' millions  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
The Queen's bankers Coutts could be sued by one of Britain's leading businessmen who fears the bank might have lost much of his £160m fortune in the financial crisis
Online shopping fuels sales rise  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Shoppers spent almost £900m on the internet last month, fuelling a surprise rise in retail sales
Oil price near four-year low despite Opec cut threat  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Oil was trading near its lowest in more than four years on scepticism that Opec's cut in supply will boost prices amid plummeting demand
Harman offers cold comfort to savers  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Harriet Harman was last night accused of 'putting two fingers up' to older savers cheated by dramatic falls in interest rates
BA merger talks with Qantas ditched  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
BA's dreams of a three-way merger with Australian airline Qantas and Spanish carrier Iberia were in tatters after talks with the Aussies collapsed
UK's surging tide of red ink  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Rewarding savers makes sense  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
They bought a dream, he Madoff with their money  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Mandelson raises a key question  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]
Hetherington: Publishing scam  [12/20/2008 01:17 PM]