House prices fall for an eig...

March 17, 2011

There was further disappointing news for the UK housing market this week after figures from theDepartment for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) showed that the average price of a UKhome fell by...

Credit card firms push 0% tr...

March 17, 2011

Credit card firms are pushing the limits for new customers by offering record 0% interest freeperiods for borrowers who switch loyalties. Barclaycard is leading the pack with a 20-month interest free...

FSA says proposed bank shake...

March 17, 2011

The chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has said that proposed plans to separate retailand investment banking operations may not go far enough to make the UK banking system safer. The I...

Bank rate may rise later tha...

March 16, 2011

Analysts’ expectations of a Bank of England rate rise have been pushed back – swayed byspeculation over how the current crisis in Japan will affect the global economy. At the end of last w...