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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Steady course needed from MPC in statistical fog
Hawks in the City have been betting for some time that the Bank of England will be the first major central bank to start raising rates.
Their case received some backing...
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MPs step up demand for credit card reform
It is supposed to protect consumers against unfair business practices, but the Office of Fair Trading was accused this week of acting like "apologists" for the the credit...
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Schools to test for sex diseases
Secondary school pupils are to be screened for sexually transmitted diseases to curb sharply rising infection rates.
Testing of teenagers for chlamydia, an infection th...
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MPC doves win the day
The Bank of England took out an insurance policy against the risk of a stalling economic recovery in the UK yesterday when it cut interest rates to their lowest level sin...
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Boost for victims of extortionate fees
Victims of Britain's antiquated consumer credit laws last week welcomed a commitment from the government to tackle extortionate interest rates and fees that hike the cost...
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Test 1: convergence
Failed
The British economy has moved more closely in step with the eurozone over the past six years but is not yet ready to live with interest rates set by the European...
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Grave risk to humans from loss of species
The increasing rates of extinction of plants and animals worldwide must be slowed to avoid threatening human food supplies, sources of wood, medicine, energy and clean wa...
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Pound tumbles to six-year low
The pound tumbled last night to its lowest level since before Labour came to power six years ago, as the prospect of a cut in interest rates to boost the flagging economy...
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