Chancellor will aim for rate-cut Budget
Gordon Brown is planning a fiscally neutral Budget on Tuesday, despite speculation that he could unveil a taxpayers' bonanza.
City analyst Douglas McWilliams, of the Ce...
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Home-loan rates cut by an average ?10 a month
Millions of home owners were yesterday handed their fourth mortgage rate cut in as many months, lopping ?9- ?11 off the monthly payments for a typical borrower.
Severa...
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Engineers call for interest rate cut to rescue industry from the doldrums
The British engineering industry yesterday greeted the prospect of a firm euro and a decline in the value of sterling as a 'glimmer of light' for a sector mired in recess...
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Nature rates second to uranium mine
Aboriginal and green groups say the Australian government faces international embarrassment after a United Nations World Heritage committee called for the scrapping of a ...
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Brown gives Bank independence to set interest rates
The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, set the seal on a frenetic first 100 hours of activity by the Blair government when he stunned the City and Westminster yesterday by h...
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Pound drops out of ERM: Second rate rise revoked after rout in money markets
The government last night suspended Britain's membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism after a tidal wave of selling the pound on the foreign exchanges left it defencele...
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Chancellor still aiming for 20p tax rate
Britain is clearly coming out of recession, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, told conference yesterday. 'The green shoots of economic spring are appearing ...
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Richard the fifth (rate)?
You'd expect the Mail to do a big number on John Naughton's Radio Times list of the worst TV shows in history. Come in Crossroads, a 'notoriously bad soap' at number 50. ...
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Surprise rate rise fails to hit Persimmon performance
Britain's biggest housebuilder, Persimmon, expects the housing market to remain strong and said this month's surprise interest rate rise had no tangible effect on its bus...
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Traders nervous of rate rise
The odd bright spot in the market today could not disguise an underlying nervousness before Thursday's meeting of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting committee.
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