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Latest reports from News
- Petrol, energy and food prices are consumers' major worries as 10million households feel financially squeezed
- Payday lenders target bloggers and small websites to recruit clients
- Chancellor risks Britain's gold-plated AAA rating over debt failure
- Lucrative tax breaks to spur boom in shale gas exploration: Chancellor to cut reliance on supplies from abroad
- Fresh Stars Awards: We help ex-offenders get back on track
- Cast your champagne vote for the People's Champion in Financial Mail's Made in Britain Awards
- DAN ATKINSON: Can new BoE chief Mark Carney help Osborne from drifting?
- Harvard's bright spark cuts the cost of street lights
- Vehicle giant Cartwright Group was born in a barn
- Pet drugs maker can beat big rivals by staying in UK
- Fleetsolve makes sure leftovers end up as vital heat and light
- MADE IN BRITAIN: Join the search for Britain's best manufacturing company and win a case of Champagne
- Save money on posting Christmas cards and use second class - they may arrive sooner anyway
- Women urged to renew life insurance policies before EU gender rule ups premiums
Latest from Investing
- MIDAS UPDATE: Newspaper distributor Smiths News we tipped rises by 38%
- MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Chance to profit as project fixer WYG Group starts recovery
- More savers to set sail solo rather than pay for advice: Demand for fees sparks a wave of new services
- RICHARD DYSON: FSA's dirty deal lets Capita off the hook for its part in Arch Cru investment scandal
- INVESTMENT EXTRA: Spark up savings rate with company bonds
- SMALL CAP MOVERS: Market taking AIM as run-up to Christmas sees activity pick up
- Why it may soon be far easier to find an excellent IFA - and to expose the bad ones
- MIDAS SHARE TIPS: Gold quintuples in ten years and it's still rising
- Alliance Trust: New manager ditches half its holdings as it aims to return to form. Should you invest?
Latest from Cards & loans
- Computer says NO (because you're dead): Fred Banagan declared deceased THREE TIMES in credit rating mix-up that ruined his marriage, caused untold stress and hit his businesses
- My credit rating is excellent, so why am I not getting the best rates for loans or credit cards?
- Payday lenders to see their sky-high interest rates capped after Lords back change in law
- In debt credit card holders can get 22 months interest free with MBNA
- PPI claims flood in at twice the rate predicted as claimants told they must wait a year for their cash
- We hand our payday firm dossier to OFT as more than 80 firms are breaking the law
- MBNA offers its longest ever 0% interest period on balance transfers and overdraft-clearing borrowing through new card
- Make something back this Christmas by using cashback credit cards for your festive shopping
- Sky-high interest rates and minimum payment cuts could cause credit card debt for decades
Latest from Holidays
- Travel agent sues for libel over 'false, malicious and defamatory' internet holiday reviews
- 'I'd rather face a day of intense pain than years of paying': One skier has a big rescue bill, but another limps down a mountain
- Bulgaria is cheapest destination for a ski holiday as European resort prices head downhill
- Win a £2,000 Christmas for you and your family, courtesy of Avios travel rewards
- Ryanair imposes new 2% credit card payment charge and wraps £6 per flight 'admin fee' into all online prices
- The best resorts for ski and snowboard holidays that won't break the bank - and how to save out there
- Don't let a slip up on the slopes this winter bruise your finances, too: One in ten don't bother with ski insurance
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- Go bare-headed on the ski slopes...but don’t get drunk
- Ryanair to end £6 charge for debit cards - but it can add fee into ticket prices and prepaid cards can no longer dodge it
Latest from Markets
- Have expensive specs lost their sex appeal? Haggling and mending their old glasses...shoppers put opticians in peril
- Britain's biggest lenders set for wave of mis-selling claims
- Amazon launches luxury goods on 'Cyber Monday'
- Revenue to come under attack for letting multinationals get away with paying far too little in corporation tax
- Hundreds of workers face axe at Shoe Zone as Stead & Simpson owner conducts property review
- New windfall of millions for former Comet boss Henry Jackson
- Olympic Park owner in battle to overturn £18m bill for rates
- THE INTERVIEW: 'I put London back on the fashion map' - Harold Tillman hails success...and owns up to a few failures
- Founder of Lastminute.com backs tickets app YPlan
- Fallen retail magnate told to repay £10million after legal battle with Baugur's administrators
Latest from Saving & banking
- LISA BUCKINGHAM: Osborne must nurture vital savings habit
- Financial protection may have bad name - but dare you be without it?
- Santander offers 18 month fixed-rate savings at 3% – but you’ll need to be a 123 customer and have £200k to open it
- Banks' overdraft rates hit record level of nearly 20% crippling thousands of customers
- Savings rates continue to plunge as Kent Reliance and Skipton BS cut the rates on their easy-access deals
- The new Nationwide bank account which pays more interest than most High Street savings accounts but puts branches off limits
- NatWest hikes the cost of its main packaged current account by £36 - and halves the number of perks
- Lloyds Banking Group set to move 3.5million accounts to Scotland
- Savers face years of having nest eggs eaten away by rises in cost of living
- Missed a payment? How that could end up costing you double when you apply for a cheap loan deal
Latest: Mortgages & home
- Barclays interest rate pledge after ING deal
- Three generations of family flooded out by last week's horrendous storms, but will they still get cover?
- Offset mortgage borrowers warned not to overpay as lenders shut door on releasing funds
- Mortgage battle continues as HSBC launches its lowest ever two-year fixed-rate deal at 1.99% - but you’ll need a big deposit
- Tumbling equity release interest rates means homeowners can save thousands by switching 'lifetime mortgages'
- Record low rates let borrowers lock in until 2018 at just 2.79%. What next for mortgage rates and should you fix?
- Stagnant property market puts house prices in line to go nowhere in 2013, says Nationwide
- Mortgages on offer leap by 20% since cheap funding launch but borrowers with big deposits see most benefit
- 'There's London, then there's the rest': Land Registry confirms house prices in capital have soared 7% in a year
ANSWERS FROM THE Experts
- TONY HETHERINGTON: The blundering taxman shocks me by paying for accountant
- ASK TONY: Spanish ferry strike meant we had to drive through France, but our insurer won't pay out as we arrived home on time
- I'm worried I will die before Tesco Bank corrects the mistake on my savings account
- Why won't Standard Life let me extend my life insurance policy?
- Where is the £3k I saved for my son?
- I need to buy a house but my bank won't let me get at my savings bonds
- TONY HETHERINGTON: Carbon Green Capital small print that says: You can't rely on us!
- ASK THE EXPERTS: Can I have cash rather than a puny annuity?
- 'I haven't been paid Jobseekers' Allowance despite applying for it 10 weeks ago and making 40 visits'
- Where is my refund from Southern Railway for a journey I took nine months ago?
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- Beat the big banks: How to exploit the best current account offers
- How to make your child a millionaire
- How to avoid a shock holiday roaming bill on your mobile phone
- Cashback vs rewards: Which really pays most on £1,000 of spending?
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- Top ten 'like new' car bargains for 2012
- Is it worth protecting your no claims bonus?
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LATEST ON HOUSEHOLD Bills
- Ofwat hopes for deal with rebel water firms over bills shake-up
- Should re-selling websites sell primary tickets that fans have never had the chance to buy?
- Government insists green energy drive will SAVE households £100 on gas and electricity bills by 2020
- Tesco to price match customers' baskets with rivals and refund the difference in late challenge to Sainsbury's Brand Match
- The Christmas hamper rip-off: How Britain's high-end food stores sell festive hampers for twice what they are worth
- Cheapest Christmas turkey 2012: Morrisons tops our supermarket buys with a £9 bird for a family festive feast
- Over-60s must act now to claim Government's Winter Fuel Payment
- Comparison website warning: Shoppers missing out on up to £240million annually due to lack of trust
- Fight back against delays: How to get a refund on your tube ticket or train journey
- Owners refused payouts after pets are put down without written permission
Latest from Pensions
- Government 'must not fiddle with the pensions tax regime again' or fewer people will save, warns trade body
- Online IFA service that uses algorithms to match you up to a suitable pension plan is launched
- Where there's a will, there's a way to ensure unmarried couples don't leave their partner with nothing
- Millions of over-50s will be forced to work beyond retirement as they 'sleepwalk' towards pensions crisis
- New state pension age: when will you retire?
- Millions of over-50s 'sleepwalking' into old age as they face massive pensions shortfall
- Workers could be forced off final-salary schemes if they move jobs under plan to revive Britain's pensions
- Pension firms told to come clean on work scheme fees and charges hidden in small print
- Older people gift society £27BILLION in unpaid work every year… but nearly half feel unappreciated
- When Paul died Standard Life just sat on his pension for 111 days - then took the interest
- Raise the Isa limit to £40k but scrap the tax-free lump sum on pensions, says former Tory adviser
Latest: money and Cars
- Only electric cars to beat London's congestion charge from next year if emission proposals are accepted
- Sainsbury's makes latest move in petrol price war as it cuts litre of unleaded by 3p
- Should you buy winter tyres? Could fitting them to your car help beat icy and snowy conditions in Britain?
- Fee shock as female drivers race for cheaper car cover
- Drivers living in the countryside urge the Government to axe planned January 3p fuel duty rise
- What will Bond make of that? Indian tractor firm's hat in the ring to buy a stake in Aston Martin
- Win £600 worth of luxury car hire with RAC
- Admiral accused of 'putting lives at risk' by hiking premiums of drivers on police speed-awareness courses
- Would toll roads improve our driving experience – or is this a money making exercise to penalise hard-pressed drivers?
VIEWS, TIPS & SPECIAL REPORTS
- SMALL CAP MOVERS: Market taking AIM as run-up to Christmas sees activity pick up Greater appetite for small caps compared with recent months.
- ALEX BRUMMER: Paul Tucker's luck hasn't run out His expertise would make him an ideal candidate for a big international post
- Sir Nigel Rudd: British dealmaker extraordinaire... ...or the man who flogged UK PLC to overseas private equity?
- CITY INTERVIEW: Alessandro's bright idea Benetton boss turns to new markets in a bid to revive clothing firm's fortunes
Currency | Rate | Buy now |
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Euro | 1.2096 | Buy Now |
US Dollar | 1.5749 | Buy Now |
Australian Dollar | 1.4899 | Buy Now |
Canadian Dollar | 1.5526 | Buy Now |
Chinese Yuan | 9.5983 | Buy Now |
Croatian Kuna | 8.9784 | Buy Now |
Czech Koruna | 29.891 | Buy Now |
Danish Kroner | 8.8848 | Buy Now |
Egyptian Pound | 9.2718 | Buy Now |
Euro | 1.2096 | Buy Now |
Hong Kong Dollar | 12.095 | Buy Now |
Hungarian Forint | 329.08 | Buy Now |
Japanese Yen | 129.51 | Buy Now |
Malaysian Ringgit | 4.6848 | Buy Now |
New Turkish Lire | 2.7696 | Buy Now |
New Zealand Dollar | 1.9034 | Buy Now |
Norwegian Kroner | 8.792 | Buy Now |
Polish Zloty | 4.84 | Buy Now |
Singapore Dollar | 1.9034 | Buy Now |
South African Rand | 13.64 | Buy Now |
Sterling | 1.0 | Buy Now |
Swedish Kroner | 10.298 | Buy Now |
Swiss Franc | 1.4494 | Buy Now |
Thai Baht | 47.101 | Buy Now |
UAE Dirham | 5.7357 | Buy Now |
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