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JEFF PRESTRIDGE: If only Halifax was as prompt with rate increases for savers as it is informing customers of changes to Bank of England base rate By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 BST, 7 May 2022 | Updated: 10:12 BST, 8 May 2022 If only Halifax was as prompt with announcing … Read more
The dollar is almighty again. We can see that against sterling, where at $1.26 the dollar is the strongest for two years. But it is even stronger against other major currencies – a five-year high against the euro and a 20-year high against the Japanese yen. Why? Well, the answer to that tells us something … Read more
VICTORIA BISCHOFF: With more bank branches shutting up shop… it’s now or never to save cash! By Victoria Bischoff for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 26 April 2022 | Updated: 07:32 BST, 27 April 2022 It is now one minute to midnight on the cash doomsday clock. Money Mail has warned for years that … Read more
There was one bright spot amid the April gloom yesterday which should kickstart the next generation of low-carbon electricity and, with luck, help ensure energy security for decades to come. While it is too late to fix the crisis, the new Nuclear Energy (Financing) Bill has been granted royal assent. It will make it much … Read more
MAGGIE PAGANO: Rationing on the cards as German energy crisis bites amid fears Putin could cut off supplies By Maggie Pagano For The Daily Mail Published: 16:51 EDT, 30 March 2022 | Updated: 16:51 EDT, 30 March 2022 Germany is one of the world’s most successful and powerful industrial nations. Yet its energy crisis is … Read more
Keir Starmer’s Labour is hyperventilating over the ‘scandalous’ decision of P&O Ferries to sack 800 crew and replace them with less expensive agency colleagues. Before Labour becomes too hot under the collar, it should consider some history. The maritime heritage of P&O dates back to 1837. But in 2006, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown stood … Read more
We are not back in the 70s: I am more worried about humanitarian costs of what is happening than manageable economic ones, says HAMISH MCRAE By Hamish Mcrae, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:50 GMT, 12 March 2022 | Updated: 13:17 GMT, 13 March 2022 Bygone era: The so-called Winter of Discontent brought down the … Read more
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: NS&I has done decent thing by raising interest rates on key savings accounts, but it is letting down its Premium Bond savers By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:51 GMT, 5 March 2022 | Updated: 22:03 GMT, 5 March 2022 Although NS&I has done the decent thing in recent weeks … Read more
So what happens next? More sanctions on Russia, yes, but what about the impact of the conflict on the global recovery? And what does this mean for us? Here in Washington, where the economic response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is being coordinated, you are aware of a harsh reality. Sanctions will do serious damage … Read more
ALEX BRUMMER: Demanding the G7 and EU agree to the strongest of all financial sanctions against Russia is vital to stop Vladimir Putin Britain has been unable to take the ultimate step of freezing Russia out of Swift Frustrated by failure of EU countries to go along with a measure so radical Such a step … Read more