Hitch a ride with your credit card – or your mortgage

Saturday, 24 May 2008

The cost of air travel has been rocketing in recent months, as rising fuel prices have left airlines with little choice but to pass on their soaring costs to consumers. Unfortunately, however, when it comes to extracting additional cash from their customers, the airlines have taken a leaf out of the banks' book – preferring to add on additional charges rather than simply putting up the price of the headline fare. This month, for example, United Airlines became the latest to start charging customers who want to check in more than one piece of baggage when they fly, while fees for paying by credit card or for not checking in online are now also becoming commonplace among other airlines.

Britons run scared of banks and stash their cash at home

Sunday, 27 April 2008

Savers are becoming much more cautious, with one in 10 people thinking their money is safest under the mattress, a survey from Newcastle Building Society suggests.

First round to the OFT in its battle against 'unfair' bank fees

Saturday, 26 April 2008

James Daley: Be careful what charges you wish for

Saturday, 26 April 2008

The popping of champagne corks on Thursday – when the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) won its court case against the banks – was more than a little premature. While the result does, indeed, open the door for an OFT clampdown on bank charges, it is improbable that anything will happen in 2008, and there is no guarantee that there will be a resolution even before the end of 2009.

Plastic loses out due to credit crunch

Monday, 21 April 2008

Shoppers spent £5bn more in notes and coins last year, according to research that challenges the long-held view that Britain is becoming a cashless society.

10 ways out of the credit crisis

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

As economic clouds follow him to the US, what can Brown do?

Wednesday, 16 April 2008

Gordon Brown vowed not to be diverted from taking the "right long-term decisions for the country" as he flew to the US today for talks in Wall Street on the global credit crunch.

Darling embarrassed as Northern Rock fails to pass on rate cut

Tuesday, 15 April 2008

Gordon Brown sought yesterday to convince voters he is not out of touch and that he understands their anxiety about the gathering economic gloom.

As chill winds blow through the City, it's springtime for savers

Sunday, 13 April 2008

The credit crunch may be tightening its grip on the nation's finances but that doesn't mean there aren't ways to benefit from the squeeze.

As lenders prepare for the worst, will prices tumble down like a house of cards?

Sunday, 6 April 2008

British mortgage lenders are planning for a slump in UK house prices of up to 20 per cent over the next couple of years.