House prices rise at fastest rate for a year
House prices last month unexpectedly rose at the fastest pace for almost a year, the Halifax said yesterday, but it warned it could be a short-lived bounce based on the B...
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Bank holds interest rates at 4.5%
The Bank of England today left interest rates unchanged at 4.5% after last month's knife-edge decision to lower borrowing costs.
Analysts had widely anticipated today's ...
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OECD warns on UK interest rates
The west's leading economic thinktank last night sharply cut its forecast for the UK this year and warned that the Bank of England might need to cut interest rates furthe...
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Why didn't I get a discounted telephone rate?
Q Telediscount advertises a 15p a minute rate to New Zealand on its website, so you can imagine my shock and horror when I saw on my bill I had been charged £1 a min...
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Consumers urged to check savings rates
Consumers need to check their savings rates after some high street banks cut the interest they pay by up to 0.6%, a financial website warned today.
Moneyfacts.co.uk said...
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Flat rate seduction
The concept of a flat rate tax - an idea that is about to sweep the world according to its supporters - has a very seductive charm about it.
Everyone despairs of the com...
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Plea for rates cut in wake of bombings
Westminster city council has written to the Chancellor demanding a rebate on business rates for firms badly hit by the London bombings.
The council said it had been inun...
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Bank governor voted against cut in rates
The most serious schism in the Bank of England's monetary policy committee since it was granted operational independence in 1997 was laid bare yesterday after it was reve...
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Eriksson rates this team the best
A manager always wonders what state his players will be in by the end of the season, but in a World Cup year morale too must be nursed. In Denmark yesterday most thoughts...
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Bank was split over rates cut
Bank of England policy makers only just voted for a cut in interest rates earlier this month, Bank minutes showed today.
Confounding City analysts who had thought a vote...
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