Retailers warned over 'exorbitant' cards
Retailers charging "exorbitant" interest rates on their store cards were ordered yesterday to include warnings on statements informing customers they could shop around fo...
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Cash in on tax-free saving
If you're holding money in a savings account and you haven't opened an Isa you should consider doing so, according to financial advisers, but time is running out to use t...
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Should you take a risk with your Isa?
You've decided to make the most of this year's Isa allowance before the tax year comes to an end, but that's just the first of a series of decisions you need to make. Nex...
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An equitable development
Something important happened in Paris last week. Led by France, up to 10 countries agreed to impose a tax on air travel, with the money used to increase spending on overs...
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Gilt trip turns into a curse for the little man
Britain's pension funds have a serious gilt complex and this obsession is taking the shine off these cast-iron investments for smaller investors.
Final salary occupation...
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Their profit, our loss
Everyone has a "bastard bank" story - a gripe about unfair charges, ridiculous interest rates, inaccessible branches, or just a general, rumbling discontent. Research fro...
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PFI hospitals to be rated at just over junk, says credit agency
Foundation trust hospitals are likely to be given the lowest investment-grade credit rating - just above high yield or "junk" status - on money they borrow in the City, a...
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As Spamalot goes on sale, silliness erupts
The fellow clutching a placard advertising an internet cafe ("cheap rates for international phone calls") at Cambridge Circus in London yesterday may have felt a little c...
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Cities need tax-raising mayors, says thinktank
Britain's two biggest regional cities should be given elected "super mayors" with tax-raising powers, Labour's favourite thinktank suggested today.
Birmingham and Manche...
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Loan shark who targeted women is jailed for two years
A violent loan shark who grabbed a heavily pregnant woman round the throat and threatened to beat clients up and burn down their homes was jailed for two years yesterday ...
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