How to ensure your money keeps working while you're working
Where and how to invest your money is probably one of the most important considerations for an expatriate. The interest rates on offer, type of account and security of fu...
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My credit card company messed me around. How much compensation am I entitled to?
Q In December 2002 we moved house and I paid off all of our visa cards. Later that month, I checked my current account balance and noticed there was more money in my acco...
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New book reopens old arguments about slave raids on Europe
North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than 1 million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series of raids which depopulated coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwa...
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Argentina and IMF in duel over $3.1bn loan
Argentina was last night on a collision course with the International Monetary Fund after the heavily indebted Latin American country signalled it was preparing to defaul...
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Iraq inquiry adds to Halliburton's woes
Halliburton, the US engineering company, has warned that the reimbursement of funds to the Pentagon after accusations that it overcharged for work in Iraq could "adversel...
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Card identity fraud jumps 45%
Identity fraud involving credit and debit cards rose by 45% in 2003, despite the first fall in overall card fraud in eight years, according to new figures today.
The pr...
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Change in Isa rules shouldn't be taxing
Next month investors who have a stocks and shares Isa will lose one of their tax perks. Should you be worried? How will it affect you? Is it still worth buying an Isa? Ac...
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Pension funds are handed £2.5m bill
Britain's hard-pressed company pension schemes were landed with a new bill yesterday when they were ordered to pay £2.5m between them to bail out workers at a firm w...
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Experts' cautious support for local income tax
Local income tax would be a "realistic option" as an alternative to council tax, a respected public finance body told the government today.
The independent Chartered In...
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Taxing question could blight Hollinger sale
The auction of Hollinger International, the owner of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, is proving as complex as it is dramatic. Amid accusations of corporate greed and boar...
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