Bird flu: if symptoms persist, consult your stockbroker...
While scientists, politicians and laymen debate the gravity of the bird-flu threat, the financial professionals have got on with their job - telling us what stocks and sh...
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Barometer's strangely sunny view
Feeling prosperous this morning? Family finances on the up? Well you certainly should be, at least according to one orthodox measure - the FTSE 100 index of top UK compan...
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A third of finance chiefs fear pension hole could sink firm
More than a third of finance directors say their company is at risk from its pension scheme, according to a report published yesterday.
A survey by the actuaries Mercer ...
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Inflation falls as petrol prices ease
Britain's inflation rate fell for the first time in over a year as fuel prices eased back from record highs, official figures showed today.
In news that will come as a r...
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Should my daughter open an Isa?
Q My daughter, recently turned 17, has an Alliance & Leicester first saver account, but the interest rate has recently been reduced.
Britannia appears to be offering a ...
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Avoiding avoidance
The growing difficulty of raising taxes in an era of globalisation has been underlined in both Britain and Germany in recent days. Both governments need to reduce their e...
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Call for free condoms to combat spread of HIV in prisons
Prisoners should be supplied with free condoms and given access to a needle-exchange system in an effort to combat soaring rates of hepatitis C and HIV among inmates, a r...
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Campaign inherits an award
The Cash team uncorked the champagne last week after scooping an award for our campaign this year on reforming inheritance tax.
Cash took the runner-up prize in the Pers...
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Fight for egalit? takes to the barricades
Current social unrest among French ethnic minorities is undeniably due to factors such as acute rates of unemployment, racism in the police force and the opportunistic la...
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Global case for shift payments
In his capacity as president of the European Union for six months, Tony Blair has just agreed with the president of France, Jacques Chirac, on a new "globalisation fund" ...
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