BUSINESS LIVE: Retail sales rose 1.2% last month; Wetherspoon returns to profit; Smiths Group ups forecasts By This Is Money Published: 07:46 GMT, 24 March 2023 | Updated: 07:46 GMT, 24 March 2023 Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Smiths Group, Wetherspoon, Games Workshop and Warpaint […]
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Adios Amigo! Sub-prime lender to be wound down after it fails to secure emergency funds By Leah Montebello For The Daily Mail Published: 21:56 GMT, 23 March 2023 | Updated: 21:56 GMT, 23 March 2023 Troubled Amigo Holdings will be liquidated after it failed to secure emergency funds. The Bournemouth-based […]
ALEX BRUMMER: Bank of England should have held back on any more rate hikes… or even cut them By Alex Brummer for the Daily Mail Published: 21:57 GMT, 23 March 2023 | Updated: 21:57 GMT, 23 March 2023 Central banks across the globe were off the pace when it came […]
Four savings providers have announced they are upping easy-access savings rates following the Bank of England’s base rate hike. Monzo, Atom Bank, Chase and Yorkshire Building Society are all upping rates in response to the Bank of England adding 0.25 per cent onto base rate to take it to 4.25 per […]
Hello yellow brick road! Motorists are baffled as council replaces wiggly lines and ‘alien landing pad’ road markings with wonky path that ‘looks like something out of the Wizard of Oz’ By Ffion Haf Published: 12:10 GMT, 23 March 2023 | Updated: 13:48 GMT, 23 March 2023 Motorists in a […]
BUSINESS LIVE: BoE expected to hike base rate to 4.25%; Lloyd’s of London slumps to a loss; Investment banks Cenkos and finnCap to merge By Live Commentary Published: 07:37 GMT, 23 March 2023 | Updated: 09:47 GMT, 23 March 2023 At midday today the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee […]
Marks and Spencer found itself back in fashion with investors after a hat-trick of upgrades from City brokers. Amid fresh signs of a recovery at the High Street favourite, BNP Paribas declared ‘management has put the spark back into M&S’. Its analysts raised the target price to 160p from 140p and […]
Carmakers ‘still use cheat devices on dirty diesels’ – eight years after Volkswagen scandal where engines produced less air pollution in tests Eight years ago, Volkswagen were accused of using devices to cheat emissions New analysis suggests emissions-cheating devices are still widespread today By Colin Fernandez, Environment Editor Published: 00:24 […]
A Junior Isa taught my son about saving… and gave him £8,000: How to engage your children with money and tap into rising rates or invest By Ruth Jackson-kirby, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 07:00 GMT, 21 March 2023 | Updated: 16:24 GMT, 22 March 2023 Parents and grandparents looking to […]
There is little more disconcerting than news of bank runs, government bailouts and plunging bank share prices – all of which we saw last week. Silicon Valley Bank in the US collapsed and HSBC had to bail out its UK arm. Then troubled banking giant Credit Suisse announced it had […]
Second-hand car prices are rising yet again – despite speedier new car delivery times and Britons cutting back on expensive purchases during the cost-of-living squeeze. The combination of high demand and low stock of used vehicles has seen the average price of a second-hand motor increase by 2.3 per cent […]
Raymond Edgell and his wife Sandra decided to get a smart meter fitted last August. Their old gas and electricity meters in their home in Harefield, near Uxbridge, were in a cupboard under the stairs. And the couple — who are both in their 70s — were increasingly finding it […]
Ford ‘to relaunch the classic Capri’: Iconic 1970s ‘working man’s Porsche’ still loved by celebrities to get eco makeover as it returns after 40 years costing £40,000 and doing 0-60 in 6.4 seconds The new 300 horsepower version will still have the classic four headlights Will also have digital touch […]
End the pensions logjam: DWP phone chaos means thousands could lose out in retirement, says JESSICA BEARD By Jessica Beard For The Daily Mail Published: 22:23 GMT, 21 March 2023 | Updated: 22:25 GMT, 21 March 2023 Checking your state pension forecast takes ‘a matter of minutes’, a rather optimistic […]
London, the Midlands and North East are the worst areas for road condition across England, a study has found as the scale of Britain’s pothole epidemic was laid bare. Some 21 per cent of roads in those three regions are classified as having a ‘poor’ structural condition, meaning they have […]
Millennials and Generation Z may be sitting on a hidden goldmine, as auctioneers report a surge of interest is leading classic items like Pokémon cards, Casio watches and Lego to sell for tens of thousands of pounds. Traditional auction items such as antiques, jewellery and art have growing competition from newer, […]
Sitting in the vast, high-ceilinged kitchen of their very own chateau, sunlight pouring through windows that look out over a vista of rural bliss, Heidi and Anthony Muir are a vision of contentment. There hasn’t been sight or sound of a car on the tiny single-track lane outside their front […]
John Lewis ‘risks turning into another Debenhams’ if it scraps cherished staff ownership model, campaigners warn By Archie Mitchell Published: 01:16 GMT, 21 March 2023 | Updated: 01:27 GMT, 21 March 2023 John Lewis risks becoming ‘just another Debenhams or Sports Direct’ if it scraps its cherished staff ownership model, […]
Britain’s pothole plague will take £14billion and 11 years to fix, damning report reveals There were 8,000 fewer miles of road classified as ‘good’ compared to last year One in every nine miles of local road is now in ‘poor condition’ Shortfalls in pothole repair budgets among local authorities have […]
The gold price has hit record highs in sterling terms, as a new wave of banking crises has shocked markets already weakened by the pressures of inflation, supply-chain chaos, and the uncertainties of the Ukraine crisis. At well over £1,600 per ounce we are in completely new territory, and although […]