The financial ties that bind
Saving and investing has become a family business with decisions taken by one member increasingly impacting on others.
And this trend will increase next year when payme...
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Fear of fraud deters most Europeans from buying online
Security concerns are holding back e-commerce - especially in Europe, which is regarded as being less net-savvy than the US.
According to a Forrester research report la...
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Mobile internet war heats up
The mobile internet war is intensifying at a rapid rate. In the week since Online's cover story on the subject, there has been a steady str...
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Suburban Spaceyman
As a theatre director, Sam Mendes is celebrated for breathing new life into classics (Chekhov, Shakespeare, Schnitzler, O'Casey) and reviving modern works (Cabaret, Compa...
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Toll tax: Bad news for British motorists
Motorists using major road bridges and tunnel crossings in Britain are set to face hefty increases in charges after a European ruling yesterday.
The government has foug...
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Ecuador Indians give new leader 6 months' grace
Thousands of pensioners have been queueing from early morning outside banks in Quito to withdraw monthly benefit payments which have lost half their value in the past mon...
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Kohl 'took cash from France to win election
A German parliamentary inquiry into secret party funds broadened its scope this week to investigate a report that France's late former president Francois Mitterrand used ...
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Credit card firms face $24.3bn suit
Some of America's biggest retailers are claiming damages that could amount to as much as $24.3bn from Visa and Mastercard after accusing the credit card companies of forc...
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Banks fail to give credit to fake smart card 'genius
Serge Humpich believed he held a secret that could do more damage to the banking system than a dozen Nick Leesons. A self-styled electronic genius, Mr Humpich claimed to ...
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Plunge into red is blow to leader's health pledge
Britain's public finances sank deeply into the red last month, causing City analysts yesterday to scale back estimates of the size of Gordon Brown's war chest going into ...
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