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  • House price reports: who needs 'em?
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
    Is such a thing as a 'useful' house price index, one that can be used by buyers and sellers to reflect on their own individual deals in any meaningful way? Linton Chiswick reports on the difficult questions an official investigation into house prices must tackle.

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  • House price reports: who needs 'em?
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
    Is such a thing as a 'useful' house price index, one that can be used by buyers and sellers to reflect on their own individual deals in any meaningful way? Linton Chiswick reports on the difficult questions an official investigation into house prices must tackle.

BBC Business News

  • Empty shops highlighting 'divide'
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:44 GMT
    The number of shops closing in Britain is slowing but a north-south divide has emerged, a survey by retail analysts the Local Data Company suggests.
  • Rig firms hit back at BP report
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:55:33 GMT
    Contractors who worked for BP on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig criticise the company's report into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
  • Big money
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:04:00 GMT
    Russia is home to the wealthiest expats
  • Shoppers turning to card payments
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 23:01:01 GMT
    The number of cash machines in the UK has fallen and withdrawals have dropped as shoppers turn to cards, figures show.
  • Google revamps search system
    Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:55:08 GMT
    The search giant launches a system with web links appearing as soon as characters are typed into the query box.

BBC News

  • UN aid chief Amos visits Pakistan
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:31:09 GMT
    The newly appointed head of UN humanitarian relief Lady Valerie Amos has spent her first day in office touring Pakistan.
  • Mexico rejects drug 'insurgency' analogy
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:22:58 GMT
    Mexico has rejected remarks from the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, that drug-related violence in Mexico increasingly has the hallmarks of an insurgency.
  • Empty shops highlighting 'divide'
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:09:44 GMT
    The number of shops closing in Britain is slowing but a north-south divide has emerged, a survey by retail analysts the Local Data Company suggests.
  • Koran bonfire 'still going ahead'
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:39:17 GMT
    A US pastor says he is not "backing down" from plans to burn copies of the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11, despite international condemnation.
  • Mexico crime 'like an insurgency'
    Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:01:18 GMT
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Mexican drug violence is looking increasingly like an insurgency, a comment strongly rejected by Mexico.