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Gartmore’s £1bn float to kick start surge in IPO

Fund management giant Gartmore is to list on the Stock Exchange, firing the starting gun on what is expected to be several major flotations in London in the next 12 months  Comments 
Graham Beale

Nationwide’s alert on rally after 64% fall

Nationwide building society today forecast a “slow” economic recovery and warned the recent rally in house prices could run out of steam  Comments 
Apple Store

Apple changes Regent Street to its core

Arrival of Apple Store exactly half a decade ago has transformed Regent Street into one of Europe’s leading retail shopping destinations  Comments 

Divis hit as water giants are hung out to dry in Ofwat price review

Water giants Severn Trent and United Utilities are set to be hit so hard by this week’s Ofwat price review that they will have to slash their dividends by a fifth  Comments 
Lewis Hamilton

McLaren races back into the black thanks to Hamilton F1 win

Lewis Hamilton’s Formula One world championship victory last year drove his McLaren team from the red to a £14 million pre-tax profit according to its accounts to 31 December 2008  Comments 

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Interview

In the Thyk of it: having left a lucrative job in PR with Matthew Freud, Kris Thykier now has his picture taken in Leicester Square in front of posters for his film‘Being in the UK is the best place to make movies’
 

Murdoch mulls Microsoft move to charge for content

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has held talks with Microsoft about the publisher being paid revenues by Microsoft’s search engine Bing if it “de-indexes” its news content from arch-rival Google  Comments 

Scottish & Newcastle offering free-of-tie leases at dormant pubs

Brewing giant Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) is breaking ranks with the industry to offer 19 pubs free of the controversial “beer tie”  Comments 

Mitie prepares for boom as firms rush to outsource

Support services and property management group Mitie today said business is doing well as private firms and the Government outsource work to save money  Comments 

Analyst warns on housing

The housebuilding recovery is stalling, strangled by a lack of first-time buyer affordability, according to one leading industry analyst who is telling his clients to get out of the sector fast  Comments 

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FRIDAY UPDATE

Morgan Stanley casts cloud over Thomas Cook and Tui

Shares of the UK’s two biggest package holiday operators were among the heaviest blue-chip fallers today after one broker decided that their outlook was far from sunny

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To be Frank, he’s a heroin of our time

“It's been a while since Frank Timis graced City Spy so a big shout out to the former boss of Regal Petroleum who told the market he'd found a whole load of oil in Greece only for it to turn out he hadn't

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