Plant your savings in greener pastures
Choices for ethical investors about where to fulfil their everyday banking needs are straightforward: ethical advisers point to building societies, particularly those whi...
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Now is the time to visit London
Fancy a short break in London? Then go this summer if you want to take advantage of the lowest hotel rates for more than 10 years. The foot and mouth crisis coupled with ...
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ECB slips up with figures
The European Central Bank suffered a further blow to its credibility yesterday and opened the door for more interest rate cuts with the admission that a signficant measur...
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London 'is safer than most EU capitals
London is still one of the safer capital cities in the world to live in with a murder rate below the European average, according to international criminal justice statist...
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IMF angry at euro inaction
The International Monetary Fund last night stepped up the pressure on the European Central Bank to cut interest rates after warning that a failure to boost growth prospec...
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Debt taskforce targets credit cards
Clearer notification of credit card rates and a clampdown on certain types of marketing are understood to be among the recommendations of a taskforce set up by consumer a...
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Follow the leader
The Bank of England should shamelessly copy the tactics employed by America's Federal Reserve. The US central bank cut interest rates by 0.5% this week when no one was ex...
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It all hangs on Wim's whim
The European Central Bank is between a rock and a hard place. Should it keep interest rates on hold while all about are cutting theirs in determined pursuit of the holy g...
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Dow jumps ahead of Fed meeting
Hopes that the Federal Reserve will announce deep cuts in US interest rates tonight to revive the American economy helped shares rebound on Wall Street in early trading y...
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Eyes on Ankara for the next round of crises
When money market interest rates toy with the 5,000% level, as they did in Turkey yesterday, it is time to take notice. The crises in south-east Asia in 1997 and Russia i...
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