Curiouser and curiouser: Britain in euroland
There has always been something Alice in Wonderlandish about Britain's relationship with the exchange rate mechanism, the system set up in the 1980s to reduce exchange ra...
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Reforming student finance
The focus groups have met. Surprise, surprise: nobody much likes a graduate tax. Ministers have reportedly gone back to the drawing board to search for ways to reform stu...
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Shoppers prove unstoppable
Shops around the country enjoyed their busiest day of the year yesterday, as a combination of low interest rates and pent-up Christmas energy unleashed a stampede of barg...
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Top deals for anxious savers
Interest rates are now at their lowest level for some 40 years, and the returns paid by banks and building societies have fallen dramatically over the past couple of year...
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Bank's inflation model 'is faulty
Threadneedle Street's leading dove, Sushil Wadhwani, yesterday stepped up his personal battle for more cuts in interest rates to stave off recession, with a claim that th...
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Is your plastic really drastic?
The major high street banks were forced to defend their credit card charges this week after coming under attack from the Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable.
He accused th...
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ECB shocked at downturn
The Bank of England's move yesterday to cut base rates by a larger than expected half a percentage point was swiftly followed by a similar decrease on the Continent, as t...
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An Old Lady shows the way
Two meetings will be taking place on Thursday to decide appropriate interest rates within Europe - and their settings could not be more different.
One will be held in a...
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Raise your interest in banking from home
Savers looking for decent rates are being strongly urged to get out of branch-based accounts and go for telephone, postal, internet and mini-cash Isas instead. Many saver...
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ECB reluctant to cross the great divide
Europe's economic policymakers are at each other's throats. The language may be diplomatic but the divide between finance ministers and the European Central Bank is growi...
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