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PEAK season bookings are likely to give a healthy boost to profits at Salford-based tour operator First Choice this week as it posts its interim results. Investors will be looking for signs of a recovery in the travel industry when First Choice and Rossendale firm MyTravel post their six monthly results to April 30. The industry has been hit by rising fuel costs and a fall in demand for package h ...

By Friedel Rother LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 turned lower on Monday, erasing an initially higher start as weakness in the mining sector outweighed bid talk driving several other stocks higher, including medical devices maker Smith & Nephew and retailer GUS . Dealers reported speculation of bid interest in Smith & Nephew from U.S. firm Bristol-Myers Squibb , pushing its shares up about 2 per ...

LONDON (Reuters) - House prices rose at their fastest annual pace in nearly a year in April, pushed up by property price rises in the capital, the government said on Monday. The 5.1 percent rise in the year to April reported by the Department for Communities and Local Government, formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, was up sharply from 3.3 percent in the prior month and the highest since May 2005. Prices rose 7.1 percent on a year ago in London, also up sharply from the 4.0 percen ...

This is Money12 June 2006 BANKING giant Barclays is set to increase its number of high street branches in prime locations, a report said today. OTHER STORIES Standard set to cut windfalls £1000 fines for watching World Cup Market report: Monday 09.30 Bidders circle homes builder Watchdog to mull Vodafone pay deals THE EDITOR'S PICKS TOP STORY: Bank ditches complaining cus ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The FTSE 100 headed higher on Monday, defying predictions of a lower start as takeover talk resurfaced for several stocks, including medical devices maker Smith & Nephew and retailer GUS. Dealers reported speculation of bid interest in Smith & Nephew (SN.L: Quote, Profile, Research) from U.S. firm Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) , driving its shares up about 2 percent, while GUS (GUS.L: Quote, Profile, Research) added 1.6 percent on talk that U.S. pri ...

LONDON (Reuters) - UK stocks headed higher on Monday, defying predictions of a lower start as takeover talk resurfaced for several stocks, including medical devices maker Smith & Nephew and retailer GUS . Dealers reported speculation of bid interest in Smith & Nephew from U.S. firm Bristol-Myers Squibb , driving its shares up about 2 percent, while GUS added 1.6 percent on talk that U.S. private equity groups were mulling an offer for the owner of retail chain Argos and U.S. credit checking fir ...

Simon Lambert, This is Money12 June 2006 RISING house prices have led to the cost of owning a property over a 25-year period in some areas outstripping the cost of renting for the first time. BRICKS & MORTAR: Renting a home has become cheaper than buying over the typical mortgage term in some areas of the country WANT TO KNOW MORE? REPORT: Property millionaires hit 66,000 GUIDES: Ten tips for renting a home DEAL FINDER: Search for the best mortgage POLL: Where will the U ...