Barclaycard bad debts and rising costs blemish bank's bumper year
Barclaycard is on course to report its first fall in full-year profits since 1997 as customers fail to repay credit card debt and the company invests in growth.
The decl...
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When honesty isn't the best policy
If colleges educate students without payment from the government, should they be obliged to declare them in official surveys? This is far from an academic question. It is...
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Future's so bright
Two reasons to be cheerful this week: unemployment rates among graduates have dropped and wages are increasing, according to the What Do Graduates Do?...
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View from a broad
It's been a terrible week for the police. The dreadful loss of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky, the news that conviction rates for rape are at their lowest for 30 years, which can...
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Continent at the crossroads
In Stockholm, a busy executive authorises her annual tax return from her mobile phone. In Paris, a young man orders an official copy of his criminal record from an intern...
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Bird flu: if symptoms persist, consult your stockbroker...
While scientists, politicians and laymen debate the gravity of the bird-flu threat, the financial professionals have got on with their job - telling us what stocks and sh...
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Barometer's strangely sunny view
Feeling prosperous this morning? Family finances on the up? Well you certainly should be, at least according to one orthodox measure - the FTSE 100 index of top UK compan...
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A third of finance chiefs fear pension hole could sink firm
More than a third of finance directors say their company is at risk from its pension scheme, according to a report published yesterday.
A survey by the actuaries Mercer ...
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Inflation falls as petrol prices ease
Britain's inflation rate fell for the first time in over a year as fuel prices eased back from record highs, official figures showed today.
In news that will come as a r...
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Should my daughter open an Isa?
Q My daughter, recently turned 17, has an Alliance & Leicester first saver account, but the interest rate has recently been reduced.
Britannia appears to be offering a ...
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