Dixons's Freeserve enjoys a special advantage that Libertysurf will have to do without: a generous cut of the increased telephone bills.

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Refinancing applications jumped 30 percent last week, to more than double the rate we had last fall, saving the average homeowner hundreds of dollars a month -- the equivalent of a generous tax cut.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

Solar shares fell some 32% on the NEX in the first quarter of the year and have suffered again in recent weeks, a drop that Prideaux blames on proposals in Germany and Spain to cut generous feed-in tariffs that oblige utilities to buy renewable electricity at above market prices.

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