UK Finance News

The new UK coalition government announced today that it would focus on reducing the record deficit running at 11% GDP as a priority during their elected term.
“The deficit reduction programme takes precedence over any of the other measures in this agreement, and the speed of implementation of any measures that have a cost to the [...]

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In the current financial environment where the traditional areas of investment such as property and stock markets have faltered or crashed over the past couple of years, many of us seem content to play it safe by keeping any savings that we may have tucked up in banks, earning little or no interest.
It is fair [...]

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The UK’s Furness and Harpenden building societies have announced that they have signed up to compete for savers’ cash with Europe’s first and largest online interest rate auction house for time deposits, licuro.com.They make up seven UK societies that have signed up to the scheme that offers large lump sum investors the best time deposit [...]

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As the winter draws in and the recession bites further into our incomes, memories of summer holidays long since passed may start us thinking of next years vacation or even thoughts of a life changing experience of  a ‘better life’ overseas.
The ‘easy’ life always sounds attractive, but is the grass really greener? It is worth [...]

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Research conducted by Newcastle Building Society, the biggest building society in the Nort East, has found that savers are risking getting lower returns on their investments by not utilising the financial information and support that is freely available to them on the market.
With the base rate at an all time low many savers have already [...]

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