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Joanne Hart, Investment Editor of Financial Mail The Mail on Sunday's share-tipping column reviews its Dogs of the Footsie portfolio of highest-yielding stocks and sees it lose further ground. Against this backdrop, the Midas...
Published Date: 22 November 2009 LLOYDS Banking Group shareholders will gather in Birmingham on Thursday to decide whether to give it the green light for a further capital raising exercise and approve a £13.5 billion rights...
Inside knowledge: John Kingman will become the new managing director of NM Rothschild The civil servant who oversaw the taxpayers’ stake in Britain’s crisis-hit banks is at the centre of a conflict-of-interest row after it...
State-backed savings providers have in some cases become more competitive in the past year, according to analysts, but there is little evidence to suggest they consistently offer the highest deposit rates, writes Steve Lodge....
Nationwide Building Society has revealed a big fall in profits and painted a gloomy economic picture. Nationwide made £143m in the six months to October, down almost two-thirds from £374m. Boss Graham Beale accused ministers of...
These days the toughest critics of extending women’s rights are not men – but women Maternity leave is too generous. Such women should not be entitled to the same rights as divorcing wives, Deech said in a lecture, because they...
Despite the downturn, it is an investment that has been as safe as houses, rising by an average of 111% over the decade, reports Rupert Jones Forget the stockmarket and high-interest savings accounts – the best place for your...
Mortgage brokers have been badly hit by the credit crunch, with more than half of intermediaries going out of business in the past two years. There are now only 12,500 brokers offering independent mortgage advice in the UK,...
Gold was a lousy investment in the 90s … how times change. The humble savings account, meanwhile, more than held its own Gold It has been one of the best investments of the past decade, and this week it was hitting new highs....
I was put on 'withdrawal watch' when I tried to open a Northern Rock account I recently tried to open a one-year fixed-rate bond account with Northern Rock. There seemed to be a problem by phone, but the website said this was...
