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Withdrawing Cash Abroad - New Ripoff?
Hi All, I feel especially aggrieved about the way I've been treated by Alliance and Leicester on my most recent holiday - I'm used to the £1.50 charge per cash withdrawal, but they've imposed new...
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Jim Cramer for Treasury Secretary?
I used to laugh at the Oprah Winfrey show. I found it pathetic the way she could take every single guest and every single subject and make it all about herself. Then I watched Jim Cramer?s Mad Money...
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EMAP offer: CGT or income+CGT?
Advice please There's a bid currently in place for EMAP The offer seems to be: special dividend of £4.61 per share cash offer of £4.70 per share total of £9.31 per share. Is the whole £9.31 the...
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Savings account for Ltd company
It seems all the obvious best interest bearing accounts are only for personal savings. Can anyone point me in the right direction for a highish interest saving account for a Ltd company?
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Northern Rock is Nationalised
And again Vince Cable was proved correct. However, the question now is whether the Government can make a fist of managing a bank. What are the odds? Will they make lots of people in Newcastle...
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Lotteries & Rationality...
Suppose there was a Lottery where tickets cost 1 and you have a one-in-a-million chance of winning 500,000 (no other prizes). Would you buy any tickets? No? Now suppose there was another a Lottery...
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Fraud Kills
John Madden, the most popular play-by-play commentator in NFL history, has always said, ?Speed kills.? In a chase-and-tackle game like American football, he is absolutely correct. In the financial...
 
Re: This is going to be the most dishonest action in the last 100 years.....it should not be allowed
In effect what it means is this: Every day life of a municipality will continue as is, but super funds, new projects, and even funding for existing projects will be cut back heavily, there simply will...
 
Get some money back if you flew long haul with Virgin or BA Aug 2004-Mar 2006
A class action suit has managed to claw back about £10 per person per 'leg' of the flight. If you were (like me) 'stung', take a look at this web site, which gives you the information you need to...
 
CGT Advice
Hi All, I have several properties (2 flats, 2 house's), I may for forced to sell these due to divorce. I need to know what the CGT liability is for each and all. Is there someone in the Leatherhead...
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Did A Hedge Fund Create the Current Credit Crunch?
Jacob Zamansky, of Zamansky and Associates, a New York-based securities arbitration firm, writes, ?Many argue that failure led to the worldwide credit crunch. On Aug. 1, Zamansky & Associates filed...
 
ISA 30 Days transfer notice
Attracted by ICESAVE interest rates I decided to transfer my Northern Rock and Halifax 30 days cash ISAs to them. ICESAVE arrange all the transfer - giving notice to old provider. I completed form on...
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6 month LIBOR dropping like a rock
I'd be interested in hearing some opinions as to why the 6 month LIBOR is dropping so drastically compared to the other basic rates. Thanks. Claude
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The unfolding insurance nightmare fraud from hell.
The unfolding insurance nightmare fraud from hell. Click on the mp3 llinks: Intro (3,5 MB) Part 1 (9 MB) Part 2 (7,7 MB)
 
letting agent fear
I have 3 houses that I let and they are managed by an estate agent. Lately the agents, from management to employees appear to be a a state of depression, they are sluggish in their responses, tend to...
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