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Business Feature: Rate cut stuns City
- 03/08/01 |
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City pundits were in disarray yesterday as the
bank of England's monetary policy committee cut interest rates by
a quarter percent in the face of all predictions, putting them at
their lowest level since August 1999. Major
mortgage companies followed suit by cutting home loan rates in a
move which will please Britain's millions of homeowners.
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| Business
person of the Month 06/01 :
Clive Ronalds, Prontaprint, 135 Notting Hill Gate |
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Name
Clive Ronalds
Job title
Proprietor
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| London
Business Feature: Belgo to bid for
Waterstone?
- 21/06/01
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Swashbuckling
entrepreneur Luke Johnson, chairman of Belgo restaurants, remains
tight-lipped over strong rumours that he is preparing to put in a
bid for the Waterstone's chain of bookstores.
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| London
Business Feature: Dome Deal Close?
05/06/01 |
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A consortium including the Duke
of Westminster's private company, Grosvenor and little-known property
vehicle Quintain Estates & Development, are in exclusive talks with
urban regeneration agency English Partnerships about buying 150
acres on the Greenwich peninsula - including the controversy-dogged
Millennium Dome.
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| Local
Business Feature: ISA'S Stock
Falls Amidst Market Jitters -
27/03/01 |
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More than five million people will have put money
into Individual Savings Accounts to "beat the taxman'' by its
deadline on April 5. That's the prediction of fund manager M&G -
but global stock market turbulence has dented sales, even though
savers can start an ISA with £50 in Tesco, or a pound coin in Bank
of Scotland branches. ISA sales are down 30-60% on a year ago, when
dot-com mania peaked, amid jitters in markets either side of the
Atlantic.
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| Local Business Feature:
Should Sid Stay Small -
13/03/00 |
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It all began as an
unlikely dream. But when Mrs Thatcher promised to create a nation
of small shareholders, did she imagine the events which have actually
unfolded? For a long time, life was sweet for `Sid', the famous small
investor invented by advertising campaigns and persuaded to buy various
privatisation issues for a wealthy old age. But look how these `blue
chip' shares performed in the last 18 months.
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