B&Q boss cuts 400 jobs in strategic review
B&Q is expected to cut 400 jobs this week as the DIY chain's parent company, Kingfisher, seeks to shore up profits in the face of a consumer spending slowdown.
The posts...
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Buy-to-let investors creep back into the market
The number of people investing in property has increased as fears of a house price crash abated, figures showed today.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS...
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This could be a 'top-up shop' too far
As deals go, Tesco's acquisition of 30 filling stations and forecourt stores is the equivalent of a pimple on an elephantine corporate derrière.
But the reactions...
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Old Lady is dazed and confused
The joke going around the City yesterday was that Mervyn King voted against cutting interest rates this month because, as a diehard Aston Villa fan, he feels comfortable ...
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Sinister death tax' planned, warn Tories
The government plans to introduce a "sinister death tax" to help pensioners avoid paying council tax while they are alive, the Conservatives claimed today.
The Tories ra...
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Inflation rises to eight-year high
Britain's inflation rate has risen to its highest level in eight years, official figures showed today, diminishing prospects for another interest rate cut any time soon.
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Babies should be savers, too
Sometimes you have to feel sorry for Gordon Brown. His advisers scour the globe for the next big thing. There are seminars, regional pilots, elaborate costings and apprai...
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Still hungry
For supper tonight, three-quarters of us will be eating mainly stodge - a pile of carbohydrates. One in 10 people on the planet will dine on a mash of cassava root (remem...
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Derbyshire is top cut
The Derbyshire building society is so far the only institution to have cut the rates on its savings accounts by more than 0.5 per cent, following the 0.25 per cent base r...
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Bombardier cuts put Belfast jobs at risk
More than 200 aerospace jobs in Northern Ireland at the old Short Brothers factory are at risk after the owner said it was cutting production rates of one of its aircraft...
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