Fed chief hints rates may have to rise
The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, yesterday hinted that the US central bank could reverse the cuts to American interest rates which stabilised the worl...
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ECB leaves euro rates alone despite problems
The European Central Bank last night risked arousing fresh wrath in Germany when it ignored the mounting problems in Euroland's biggest economy and left interest rates in...
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Jobs gloom may be rates boon
Prospects of further cuts to interest rates rose yesterday after news of climbing unemployment and hints from the Bank of England that it may sanction cheaper borrowing. ...
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Home loans at Euro rate
Nationwide Building Society could start a revolution in mortgages by launching the first sterling home loan linked to European interest rates. The mortgage will be priced...
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Take your pick of plum rates
Halifax has this week re-jigged the rates on its fixed-rate savings accounts. Its Guaranteed Reserve now returns 5.75 per cent before tax, 4.6 per cent net, fixed for six...
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Generosity' blights City hope of interest rate cut
City expectations of further interest rate cuts were being scaled back last night in the wake of a budget package that analysts reckoned would give a boost to the economy...
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Tax: 'a cut from next April in the basic rate of income tax to 22p
We promised to get inflation and interest rates under control, to sort out the public finances, to make this the Government of economic competence and we have.
We promi...
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Fund managers shed pessimism at record rate
Economic optimism among fund managers registered its largest increase yet in March, according to a survey published yesterday which illustrates the dramatic pick-up in se...
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Tax: 'a 10p starting rate
We said in our manifesto that we would introduce a 10p starting rate of income tax for individuals when it was prudent to do so. I repeated in the last Budget that we wou...
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Chancellor will aim for rate-cut Budget
Gordon Brown is planning a fiscally neutral Budget on Tuesday, despite speculation that he could unveil a taxpayers' bonanza.
City analyst Douglas McWilliams, of the Ce...
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