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Big Freeze kept house buyers and shoppers indoors in January
An increasing number of surveyors are expecting house prices to rise in 2010 - despite a lull in house buying in January.
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Tax changes are coming – here’s how to prepare
End of year tax planning should start early this year as there is a raft of changes of which high earners must take account.
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FTSE struggles to keep head above water as global debt worries weigh
Shares had been riding high in morning deals but ongoing fears about how Greek debt woes could affect the UK weighed in afternoon deals.
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Philip Gibbs: Obama's reforms will hurt US banks
Jupiter's star financials manager Philip Gibbs says President Obama's proposals would lead to a temporary lack of competitiveness.
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Barclays star turns bearish and sells shares
Barclays' asset allocation guru says investors should not 'dance on the edge of the volcano' and should sell this liquidity-fuelled equity rally now.
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Is the market rally really dependent on quantitative easing?
It may be unclear just how correlated the stockmarket's rebound has been to quantitative easing announcements, but the withdrawal of fiscal support is a cause for concern
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Nine shares that make you money from the World Cup
Shares in selected retailers and drinks groups have been lifted by every World Cup since 1990.
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UK investors rely on just five stocks for income
Research from Capital Registrars underlines how dependent UK investors have become of just five stocks to meet their income needs.
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FTSE rebounds after late US gains
European markets rise as European ministers ready to discuss a solution to Greek debt woes later this week.
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Santander plans flotation of UK banking business
Speculation is growing that the Spanish group will float its UK banking business, which includes the former Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley.
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Lazard's Donald: Emerging market fundamentals best since the 70s
Fundamentals for emerging markets as good as they have been at any time since the 1970s, says Lazards' James Donald
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Rensburg's Spencer: How to invest in the UK but avoid its economic woes
UK companies with substantial overseas interests are likely to outperform domestic-facing peers, says Rensburg's Paul Spencer
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Monday Papers: tips and comment
If there were any lingering doubts about China’s fetish for targets, last week’s publication of the contributions to economic growth in 2009 should have removed them.
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Monday Papers: Lenders warn of mortgage shortages - other news
Britain’s banks and building societies have warned that they will have to slash mortgage lending and raise rates on home loans.
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Monday Papers: Pension Corp set to seal capital raising - bid news and gossip
Pension Corporation, the specialist insurer set up by Edi Truell, is close to finalising a £600m fundraising.
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Sunday Papers: tips and comment
Rio is poised to rejoin the dividend trail.
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Sunday Papers: Bonus storm as RBS £7bn down - other news
RBS is about to announce losses of more than £7 billion for 2009 but will still hand out enormous bonuses to its investment bankers.
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Sunday Papers: Tullow nearing $2.5bn windfall - bid news and gossip
Tullow Oil will this week sell half its $5 billion stake in one of the biggest oil finds in Africa to a Chinese state company.
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Will the end of QE impact on your retirement income?
Bank of England decision to halt quantitative easing raises questions about the prospects for annuity rates.
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Moneybox gets on the Cru case, with a little help from Dan
Radio 4's Moneybox is doing a feature on the Arch Cru funds scandal today. Our man Daniel Grote is a guest.
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Personality Finance
Nasty housing market epidemic gets a cleanup
It was described as a ‘disaster waiting to happen’ but sale-and-rent-back companies will now be fully regulated. Will it work?
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Rob Kyprianou: The prospects for gilts - beyond the rhetoric
Two investment heavyweights appeared to disagree about whether UK gilts really rest on a 'bed of nitroglycerine'. But look beyond the public rhetoric to understand what is really going on.
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Steve Bee: Get set for major pensions changes... every 10 years
We are going through a time of seismic change for pensions - and Steve Bee predicts when the next shake-up is due.
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Morning Line: Can pension funds make house prices affordable?
The government thinks pension funds and insurers could be tempted to build more homes with the right tax breaks, but is that really the way forward?
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The Friday Five: Villains of the financial crisis - other than bankers
It wasn’t just bankers who caused the boom-and-bust.
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We are not facing a commercial property bubble – yet
It may be a while before the commercial property bubble bursts and there should be some great returns to be found in the meantime, writes Financial planner Mike Deverell.
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Morning Line: Why won’t the govt act to curb rising house prices?
House price inflation is now heading into double figures. Why are the govt and the Band of England letting it happen?
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Morning Line: If not the deficit, then why vote Conservative?
Some vague talk of benchmarks for green investment won’t cut it. The Tories so far have only one claim to power: they are not Labour.
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Panic in second home paradise
A British court ruling has sent a ripple of fear through the thousands of Brits with property in North Cyprus. Linton Chiswick explains.
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Morning Line: Why M&S man’s £15m pay deal will never be voted down
Why won’t fund managers veto such obscene awards? Is it because they have a personal interest in keeping City pay artificially inflated?
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Will new rules stop the sale-and-rent-back cowboys?
It’s difficult to see how new FSA regulations will protect homebuyers in financial difficulties from exploitation and potential homelessness.
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Morning Line: Tories lose their nerve as spending cuts prove too costly
Spending cuts were at the centre of Tory policy, but a bizarre U-turn means David Cameron now runs 'a terrible risk of falling between two stools’.
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Steve Bee: Why high earners need pensions help too
Our pension system in the UK today is broken in two ways; the way it treats low earners and the way it treats high earners.
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Rob Kyprianou: Why I wouldn't buy an annuity now
Rob Kyprianou, one of Britain's foremost economic and investment experts, writes exclusively for Citywire about why you should wait before buying an annuity.
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Morning Line: Is the age of accountability really dawning?
It's not just bankers who have to justify their salaries. The BBC is being advised to watch the pennies, while civil servants and MPs face more scrutiny too.
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Is the buy-to-let market fully rehabilitated?
There has been a rehabilitation of the private landlord’s image, from a symbol of everything that was wrong with the old system, to a vital part of a ‘new normal’, in which renting isn’t only what you do when you can’t afford to buy.
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Morning Line: Why equity market fears might not be a bad thing
Have markets finally woken up to the fact that real change may be in the air?
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Morning Line: Is the UK really a ‘must avoid’ investment?
How delicate is the UK economic ‘recovery’? Is Bill Gross – the world’s biggest bond investor – right to suggest that the UK finances lie on a ‘bed of nitroglycerine’?
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Morning Line: Latest GDP numbers another kick in the teeth for savers
Savers feel ‘unsupported, unrepresented and out of favour’, according to a new campaign group. And they are absolutely right.
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David Kempton: The UK shares I’m buying to tap global gains
Experienced investor David Kempton tips UK companies whose international exposure will allow them to thrive.
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