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Ed Monk, This is Money 30 December, 2006 With experts anticipating long-awaited cuts in bills in 2007, we assess the prospects of your gas and electricity costs in the coming year. READING THE FUEL FORTUNES: Experts have predicted lower bills at last. WANT TO KNOW MORE? GUIDE: Cutting household bills DEAL FINDERS: Get the cheapest gas & electricity SPECIAL REPORT: Your bill rises as gas prices fall OTHER STORIES Market report: Friday close Market report: Yeste ...

(Updates with full report) PARIS (AFX) - Share prices rose slightly, pushing the French benchmark index to its highest closing level of the year as early gains on Wall Street and fresh rumours of a counterbid for Suez bolstered sentiment, dealers said. The CAC-40 finished up 8.40 points or 0.15 pct at 5,541.76, the highest close since May 2001. On the year, the benchmark rose 826.53 points or 1 ...

PARIS (AFX) - Share prices were higher in light afternoon trading, lifted by fresh speculation of a counterbid for Suez by financier Francois Pinault, with the French benchmark index on track to close at its best level of the year. At 3.41 pm, the CAC-40 was up 12.80 points or 0.2 pct at 5,546.16, on volume of 1.35 bln euro. Many investors have already left their desks for the New Year holiday, i ...

PARIS (AFX) - Share prices rose slightly, pushing the French benchmark index to its highest closing level of the year as early gains on Wall Street and fresh rumours of a counterbid for Suez bolstered investor sentiment, dealers said. The CAC-40 finished up 8.40 points or 0.15 pct at 5,541.76, the highest close since May 2001. On the year, the benchmark rose 826.53 points or 17.5 pct. Volume fo ...

(updating with full report, amends opening index level in 2nd par) AMSTERDAM (AFX) - Shares closed slightly lower in quiet pre-New Year trade, dealers said, noting the AEX level rose by about 13.5 pct in 2006. The AEX closed down 1.84 points or 0.37 pct to 495.34, after opening at 496.56 and trading in the 495.11-497.72 range. Government bonds traded mainly higher while the euro stood at 1.3174 ...

NEW YORK (AFX) - Wall Street marched higher Friday in the last trading day of a year most will remember for the stock market's great comeback -- pulling off a year-end rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrials past 12,000 for the first time. By all accounts, 2006 was a very good year for stocks as bullish investors bounced back from a slumping housing market and the Federal Reserve's two-year c ...

NEW YORK (AFX) - Wall Street marched higher Friday in the last trading day of a year most will remember for the's stock market's great comeback -- pulling off a year-end rally that pushed the Dow Jones industrials past 12,000 for the first time. By all accounts, 2006 was a very good year for stocks as bullish investors bounced back from a slumping housing market and the Federal Reserve's two-year ...

(Updates with full report) LONDON (AFX) - UK blue chips closed lower in thin volumes today, with a lack of newsflow providing investors with an excuse to take profits at the end of a bullish year, in which the FTSE 100 climbed over 10 pct, dealers said. At the final call for 2006, the FTSE 100 closed 20.10 points lower at 6,220.8, although recorded a gain of 10.7 pct on the year, while the FTSE  ...

(Updating with full report) FRANKFURT (AFX) - Shares closed slightly lower as markets ended early on the last day of trading for the year, with a small boost from a predicted higher opening for Wall Street later today offset by slightly downbeat data from the GfK market research institute, dealers said. At the close at 2.00 pm, the DAX 30 index was 14.89 points, or 0.23 pct, lower at 6,596.92, a ...

NEW YORK (AFX) - Shares of Apple Computer Inc. climbed more than 4 percent in Friday pre-market trading after the iPod maker said its options review found no misconduct by current executives, though the company will record $84 million in charges to correct backdated options. The charges are "insignificant" for a company with $19.32 billion in sales this year, said ThinkEquity Partners a ...