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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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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