Bank's balloon trick
This was one of the most widely expected rate rises for some time. Of 30 analysts polled by Bloomberg, all but one predicted that the Bank of England's monetary policy co...
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No end in sight to dollar's descent
Sterling powered to its highest level against the dollar yesterday since its humiliating ejection from Europe's exchange rate mechanism 11 years ago as the American curre...
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Q&A: council tax increases
So what were the big findings?
The study lent some credence to claims by councils in London and the south-east that the new finance system introduced last year to determi...
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On the fast track to rewarding savings
Nobody - not even Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England - knows what will happen to base rates when the monetary policy committee (MPC) next meets in December. But...
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Why the straight As may not make the grade in future
Investors who have poured their cash into corporate bond funds, many of them sold by high street banks, could be in for a nasty surprise. The upward march in interest rat...
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A success story?
Here's an enigma: why, in a part of the world where there's a lot of HIV/Aids, would you have a country reporting very low rates of HIV and a tiny number of people with A...
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Why delaying that annuity doesn't pay off any more
Those who've delayed taking out an annuity, in the hope that last week's first rise in interest rates in four years would boost their income in retirement, are in for a b...
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Loyalty credit cards: who is charging what?
There is an ever-increasing array of charge cards, store cards, credit cards and reward cards, so, what is happening and how do you pick your way through it?
The recent ...
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Tax-free and still the best place to keep your cash
Cash Isas are the cream of savings accounts. Savers have lapped them up in their millions since they launched in April 1999.
The lure of their tax-free status plus fran...
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Making you see red
You can't swing a cat these days without hitting a new current account boasting about its high rate of interest. But a Jobs & Money probe reveals that behind the head...
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