Danish supporters and opponents of the euro have each launched
last-minute pushes for votes as polls published on the eve of Thursday's
referendum showed the outcome to be totally unpredictable.
London markets managed to overcome their initial nerves, rising
despite a warning from media heavyweight Granada Media that this
year's revenues would not match those of last year.
The housing market is still subdued, with demand for new mortgages
continuing to fall. Research by the British Bankers Association
found that major banks approved 54,424 new loans in August, down
from 58,522 in July.
Internet provider America Online and Japan's NTT DoCoMo mobile
communications company are joining up in a $100 million deal to
develop and market mobile Internet services.
Rank is to sell its Butlins holiday resorts, Haven parks and Warner
hotels to privately owned Bourne Leisure for £700 million.
The price is well above the £500 million to £600 million
price tag that had previously been touted.
Bank of Scotland, which lost out to rival Royal Bank in the take-over
battle for the National Westminster Bank, has reported a 14 per
cent increase in underlying profits for the first half of the year.
The workers' lunch hour, long enshrined as a right not a privilege
is now far more likely to be the workers' lunch half hour. According
to research, many workers take just minutes for their lunchtime
meal.
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FTSE-100 (close)
6269.3 + 56.1
£/euro = 1.6575
£/dollar = 1.4642
Internet banking
If my research is to be believed, internet
banking is finally beginning to catch on, and fast, and the winners
so far aren't the new start-ups with jazzy names, but the big high
street banks who now have a web presence.
Official figures show that Barclays was
the most visited e-bank in August, with 641,000 visitors, usurping
Egg's position as number one.
The Danish like referendums. In fact, they
like them so much that they held two on the Maastricht Treaty before
finally accepting the first stage of European Union.
The next stage of that process - whether
or not to accept the euro - is causing equal confusion.
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