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Rise of Savings Accounts with Interest Guarantee - Thu, 28 Aug, 2008
Much like variable mortgage rates, variable interest rates on ... [more]
Popular funds drag investors down - Wed, 27 Aug, 2008
CHEAP and cheerful index tracking funds are short-changing investors to the tune of thousands of pounds, warns data analyst Moneyspider.com... [more]
British Children Receiving Less Pocket Money - Wed, 27 Aug, 2008
Parents are tightening the purse strings as the credit crunch takes hold. Average weekly pocket money in 2008 dropped 23% to £6.13 a week, accor... [more]
Pitfalls of Offshore Savings Accounts - Tue, 26 Aug, 2008
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is on the tail of UK savers who may be hiding funds offshore and who have not paid tax on the interest, or declared in... [more]
Nick Clegg Hit by Credit Crunch - Fri, 22 Aug, 2008
Liberal Democrat leader Mr Clegg, who lives with his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez and their two young sons in Putney, South-West London, has said his... [more]
Woman Fined £16k for File Sharing - Thu, 21 Aug, 2008
Firms are cracking down on the practice of file sharing that is depriving them of millions of pounds worth of copyright royalties.... [more]
Save £500 a Month by Getting Healthy - Wed, 20 Aug, 2008
Bupa has issued tips designed to help people save money by getting healthy. Exercising outdoors, growing fruit and vegetables, quitting smoking and dr... [more]
Savings Accounts Under Threat from Inflation - Tue, 19 Aug, 2008
Savers should beware that billions of pounds are languishing in savings accoun... [more]
Scottish Government to Buy Electricity in Bulk - Mon, 18 Aug, 2008
The Scottish Government plans to bulk-buy electricity for the whole public sector. At present there are hundreds of individual public sector contracts... [more]
Supermarkets Cut Price of Milk - Fri, 15 Aug, 2008
Good news for dairy lovers: the price of milk has been slashed, as supermarkets compete with each other for customers.... [more]
HBOS Scales Down its Intelligent Finance and TMB Operations - Fri, 15 Aug, 2008
HBOS has today announced that its subsidiary Intelligent Finance is to stop selling cred... [more]
Wrapit Customers Will Not Be Refunded - Wed, 13 Aug, 2008
Administrators of the insolvent wedding gift list company Wrapit have announced that customers are unlikely to receive either their gifts or their mon... [more]
Inflation Hits 4.4 Per Cent - Wed, 13 Aug, 2008
UK inflation is now more than double the Government's target, having hit 4.4% in July. This breaks two records: it is both the biggest monthly change... [more]
Children Saving for University - Tue, 12 Aug, 2008
Figures released by The Children's Mutual show that children as young as eleven are saving for the cost of university, after watching older siblings ... [more]
Savings Accounts Continue to Boom - Fri, 8 Aug, 2008
New figures from online bank Cahoot reveal that interest rates on ... [more]
Billions More Poured into Northern Rock - Thu, 7 Aug, 2008
The Government has pledged a further £3.4bn of taxpayers' money to the struggling ... [more]
Experts Urge Stamp Duty Reform - Wed, 6 Aug, 2008
Property experts have called for the Government to overhaul the much-despised tax of ... [more]
Average Consumer Has Less Money in the Bank - Tue, 5 Aug, 2008
Figures released today by HSBC show that UK consumers are keeping less money in their ... [more]
October Hotels for £2 a Night - Mon, 4 Aug, 2008
Families struggling to find the money for a summer break might want to consider the new promotion just announced by ... [more]
Government Considering Windfall Tax on Energy Companies - Mon, 4 Aug, 2008
Public anger at Centrica's announcement that it had made £992m in profit in the first half of this year has prompted the Government to consider... [more]
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