The Nationwide bank stated that house prices cooled slightly in October, but still rose by an average of 0.7%. However, the latest three monthly forecast should an increase of 2.6% over the period – the fastest growth since September 2004.
With the average price of a UK house now sitting around £169,623 it seems that...
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Adobe may rue the day it encouraged its product managers to run online blogs from its own site. It seems that the latest musing of product manager John Nack have unleashed a torrent of articles across the net from angry Mac users, annoyed that the company strategy seems inconsistent and worse still John Nack...
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As indices in western markets regain past loses and march upwards it might be time to ponder and view the results in the light of current news on housing and the growth of interest rates across many of these markets – this article in BN provides a good succinct overview.
Markets hit new highs, but...
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Adobe announced details of a ‘public beta’ of its audio application Soundbooth in a further direct attack on the Apple digital media market. Adobe and Apple previously went head-to-head after Apple launched its photographic workflow product, Aperture. Adobe responded later with the release a similar product, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, as a ‘public beta’.
The release...
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From Investment and Business News
OPEC has agreed to cut oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day, and yet the price of oil still fell. Some say it’s because traders don’t expect OPEC members to adhere to the cut. Equally, however, it could be argued that OPEC reduced oil quotas because it knew the...
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