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Self-assessment tax deadline looms
Another self-assessment tax deadline is fast approaching

Weak shares hit banks’ cash calls
Multi-billion pound share issues by HBOS and Barclays look increasingly worth shunning following further stock market weakness in the banks

Load up on cash as “capitulation” looms
LONDON (Reuters) - Wealth managers at Standard Chartered Private Bank are telling their clients to emphasis cash in their investment portfolios as they wait for stock buying opportunities later in the year.

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B&B tries for a third time
Bradford & Bingley has been forced to increase the size of its proposed 55p-a-share rights issue after TPG Capital, the private-equity group, pulled out of a deal to inject 179m into the troubled bank.