Singer sells brokerages before bubble bursts
Independent merchant bank Singer & Friedlander plans to sell off its stockbroking outfits before the share bubble bursts.
The bank, which has been cited as a takeov...
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Pick of the piggy banks
One key personal finance lesson is to shop around for the best deals. And with interest rates of 6.95% gross paid twice yearly and a minimum deposit of £1, Nationwid...
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Edward's mansion cost us ?1.8m
Almost £2 million of taxpayers' money was channelled into renovating Prince Edward's country mansion, despite Buckingham Palace's insistence that no public funds wer...
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Great product, huge market, keen buyers...
Imagine this: you are an MBA student sitting your final exam on business strategy and the question on your exam paper is: You have developed a new product, emotec, which...
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E-file your tax return and get a discount
The National Audit Office's latest annual report on the Inland Revenue makes the disturbing disclosure that 6% of tax returns may have been entered incorrectly on its com...
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Councils investigate staff benefit fraud
Three Scottish local authorities are the focus of inquiries into allegations that scores of council staff have been falsely claiming hundreds of thousands of pounds in be...
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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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