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Barclays Capital has re-launched two deposit accounts to sit in its Structured Deposit Series for Offshore Bonds.

Complaints made against firms in the personal investment category, which includes IFAs, have dropped from 46,529 in the first half of 2006 to only 17,173 in the second half of last year.

Deutsche Bank has closed its crude oil double long ETN, due to limitations imposed by the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Police in north Cornwall are working to identify a man's body found on a beach as they continue their search for missing Rowanmoor Pensions joint managing director David Seaton.

A growing number of insurers are mulling introducing a mixed commission option for advisers selling their protection products.

The FTSE has opened flat despite a rally from miners and natural resources companies.

The HSBC bank is trying to gain an even larger share of the mortgage market by launching a new deal at just 1.99% for borrowers with a 40% deposit.

Peter Hargreaves, the multi-millionaire founder of Hargreaves Lansdown, has done a u-turn on his plan to flee the UK to escape the new 50% top tax rate announced in April's Budget.

The average number of properties available per UK estate agent has climbed for the first time since April, figures from the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) show.

Positive US job figures failed to spur the Dow Jones in early trading on Wednesday.