Top deals for anxious savers
Interest rates are now at their lowest level for some 40 years, and the returns paid by banks and building societies have fallen dramatically over the past couple of year...
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Bank's inflation model 'is faulty
Threadneedle Street's leading dove, Sushil Wadhwani, yesterday stepped up his personal battle for more cuts in interest rates to stave off recession, with a claim that th...
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Is your plastic really drastic?
The major high street banks were forced to defend their credit card charges this week after coming under attack from the Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable.
He accused th...
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ECB shocked at downturn
The Bank of England's move yesterday to cut base rates by a larger than expected half a percentage point was swiftly followed by a similar decrease on the Continent, as t...
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An Old Lady shows the way
Two meetings will be taking place on Thursday to decide appropriate interest rates within Europe - and their settings could not be more different.
One will be held in a...
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Raise your interest in banking from home
Savers looking for decent rates are being strongly urged to get out of branch-based accounts and go for telephone, postal, internet and mini-cash Isas instead. Many saver...
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ECB reluctant to cross the great divide
Europe's economic policymakers are at each other's throats. The language may be diplomatic but the divide between finance ministers and the European Central Bank is growi...
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Failing to look after your interests
Thousands of Alliance & Leicester savers will receive "windfalls" averaging more than £250 apiece after a banking watchdog this week ruled they were not being pa...
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ECB fails the test
There will be much hair-pulling today in European finance ministries at the European Central Bank's failure to lower the cost of borrowing.
In an act of economic pervers...
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Score points as you spend
When searching out the best credit card deal, the interest rates charged by various cards will be irrelevant if you are among the one in three British card holders who re...
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