The UK’s largest lender, Halifax, announced today that it will cut its mortgage rates this week, despite this morning’s higher-than-expected inflation reading appearing to make a Summer interest rate cut unlikely.The new mortgage rates will come into effect on Friday (24 May).
It never seemed likely that the arcane subject of the payment of interest on commercial banks’ deposits at the Bank of England would come to be a topic of conversation down the Dog and Duck. But this is apparently what has happened after Nigel Farage discussed the policy of not paying such interest on the Laura Kuenssberg TV programme last week.
Even the HMRC doesn’t know if any of the 341 tax breaks promote economic growth – many merely line the pockets of company owners and the super-rich, writes Phillip Inman, economics editor
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The controversial work-from-home trend, catalysed by the Covid-19 lockdowns, has drawn criticism by some business leaders and politicians.
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City traders are selling off French bonds amid mounting fears of a debt crisis in Europe’s second-largest economy.
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The rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) left the door open for a June cut at its last meeting in May, but since then a number of data releases have pointed to stubborn inflationary pressures.
Ahead of the general election, the Tories and Labour have repeatedly clashed over each other’s tax plans. But how is each pound spent?
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Baked into the expectations for Tesla and Nvidia stock are the vision that a single player will dominate a revolutionary industry, facing little competition, virtually in perpetuity.
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