London 'edges up wealth rankings'
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London will leapfrog Paris and Chicago to become the fourth largest world city economy by 2020, a report says.
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Britain's FTSE 100 index (.FTSE) rose  0.3 percent in early trading on Wednesday as European and Asian  bourses swept to multi-year highs and as ICI  leapt more  than 9 percent on a sale of one of its units.
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European stock markets rose in early trading, with London climbing above 4,700 points as oil majors won support from firmer crude prices, dealers said.
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Home buyers in England face the biggest affordability gaps in South West and London, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says.
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London equities ticked higher on Friday, after the the worst sell-off since August left the market looking undervalued at the end of the previous session.
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Rising house prices have doubled the number of millionaires in the UK over the last three years, say researchers.
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London equities moved higher on Thursday, after the insurance sector received a boost following strong numbers from Aviva.
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Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and Russian businessman Roman Abramovich come first and second in a newspaper's list of the richest people living in Britain.
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The world's wealthiest investors will put more money into alternative investments, a report finds.
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London equities rose in opening trade on Tuesday, but gains were kept in check by losses for retailers after a trading update from Tesco failed to impress investors.
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London's FTSE 100 shot higher on Monday, with banks in focus amid the nationalisation of troubled lender Northern Rock.
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The world's richest are getting  younger and richer with more Russians and Indians cropping up  among the 946 people on Forbes magazine's 2007 billionaires  list unveiled on Thursday.
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As the sun looks ready to set on the UK house price boom, global house prices are still rising,  a report in the Economist said.
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Higher interest rates have knocked investors' confidence in putting their money into property, evidence suggests.
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London leapfrogs Tokyo and Paris to become the world's most expensive city for dining out.
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A survey of Britain's most expensive streets is dominated by Kensington and Chelsea, in west London.
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Reading and Southampton are among the fastest-growing cities in England, a new report claims.