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Are you itching to spend after lockdown or planning to save?
Are you itching to spend or planning to save? Lockdown savers are forecast by the Office of Budget Responsibility to have stashed away £180billion by the middle of this year. That collective cash p…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Are 95% mortgages to prop up the property market wise?
Life is tough for first-time buyers. House prices were already expensive before the coronavirus lockdowns and defying all logic a mini-boom has sent the average house price up £20,000 further over th…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Was the Coinbase listing bitcoin and crypto's coming of age?
Was the blockbuster Coinbase stock market listing a coming of age for bitcoin and cryptocurrency or a top of the bubble moment?
The world’s leading crypto exchange platform listed on the US stock m…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Is working from home here to stay and how do you make a career leap?
On Monday, we take a step towards normality – you can get your hair cut, have a beer outside at the pub and visit a clothes shop.
But what about the future of the office? Will we ever go back full-t…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
What's behind the rising tide of financial scams?
Financial scams are on the rise. The coronavirus lockdowns have seen a fresh burst of investment cons with fraudsters impersonating legitimate companies to steal tens of thousands of pounds.
Unwitt…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Hot or not? How to spot if you’re in a buyer’s or seller’s market
The headlines are telling you the property market is running hot, that the stamp duty holiday extension is stoking the fires, and buyers are ignoring the economic slump to pile in.
There’s just one…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
How to save or invest in an Isa and why it's worth doing
What’s the point in an Isa? This is a regular grumble as savings rates are now so low that earning 1 per cent would be a big deal.
But wouldn’t you rather have all of a small amount instead of a sm…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
Is the UK primed to bounce back - and what next for Scottish Mortgage?
Is the economy primed to bounce back?
That might sound like a strange question when you’ve just had the news that UK GDP fell by 2.9 per cent in one month, but January’s lockdown slump was nowhere …
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
The 'escape velocity' Budget and the £3bn underpaid state pension victory
The Budget this week was notable for two things: Firstly, The Chancellor decided to delay settling the coronavirus bill to another day and, secondly, the true scale of the women's underpaid state pen…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
Should the stamp duty holiday be made permanent?
Rumours are swirling ahead of the Budget that Rishi Sunak will extend the stamp duty holiday by three months?
The idea is that this would help stop the collapse of chain after chain as buyers pull o…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago