Squeeze out every last drop
High income bonds - sold by many high street banks and life companies - aim to pay around 10% a year in an environment, when squeezing half that rate is increasingly diff...
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HP backs First Merc deal
British technology company First Mercantile has signed its first major deal, worth ?250,000, to provide an IT system to payment systems specialist DataCash.
First Mercan...
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Taxman gets tough on Isas
Around 35,000 investors holding an estimated £400m in Isas face losing valuable tax benefits, potentially worth thousands of pounds, in an Inland Revenue crackdown.
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Oil man says Chirac knew of bribes
The former boss of the oil giant Elf, currently the focus in France of a vast corruption scandal, yesterday said that the payment of large covert commissions to foreign g...
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Conservative policy on higher education
Conservatives will use proceeds from future privatisations, spectrum sales and the proceeds from selling off the student loan book to endow universities with massive one-...
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All credit to a stubborn chancellor
Labour's redistribution by stealth has come back to haunt Gordon Brown. So successful has the chancellor been in quietly giving large chunks of money to the working poor ...
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Alternative parties, alternative ideas
The three main national parties are not the only show in town. Regional and special interest parties have many interesting personal finance policies. Here are some of the...
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Let us tax this chequebook journalism
The press complaints commission's speedy initiative to inquire into the Biggs affair will provide a severe test of the self-regulation of the press. It should also prompt...
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Labour rejects claims of ?5bn tax black hole
Tax increases of £5bn a year or higher borrowing will be needed by the end of the next parliament if Labour is to continue rebuilding run-down public services at the...
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M&S chief's bonus to be axed
Marks & Spencer intends to block a bonus payment of £810,000 to its controversial chairman, Luc Vandevelde, prompting speculation that the Belgian might quit the...
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