 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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City braced for fourth hike in interest rates.(Money)
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The road to ruin is paved with windfall gains, a leading economic forecaster warned yesterday as the City braced itself for a fourth rise in interest rates in as many months.
The pounds 150 million of high street sales - 7 per cent of the pounds 2.144 billion total - funded last month by handouts to consumers from the flotation of building societies, was just the tip of the iceberg.
The UK economy faces a period of ''boomlet, bustlet'', warned Adam Cole, of H...
