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VAT Round-Down
Published : December 01, 2008 | Author : missmoney | Unrated |
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 In an attempt to restart the UK economy the Government, in it's wisdom, decided to recude the VAT rate from today, but many believe it's timing to be flawed and to have caused mayhem at many retailers.
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Festive Money
Published : November 20, 2008 | Author : missmoney | Unrated |
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| Retailers must have been really scared about the prospects of a disastrous Christmas period given the number crazy sales being offered by the big high street department stores this week.
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Finance Fears and Emotion
Published : November 17, 2008 | Author : LoanStar | Unrated |
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 You could be forgiven to think that the finance and commodity markets around the world are driven by fear and emotion rather than facts, knowledge or information. But the crazy swings of current times seem to indicta ethe former holds more sway.
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Tax Cut Excitement Prevails
Published : November 11, 2008 | Author : MoneyMan | Unrated |
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 I don't normally talk about tax issues on this site, partly becasue they are not my area and I'm not qualified to advise on them but today there seem to be plenty of expectations that tax cuts are on the horizon. The hopes are that they will save some people lots of money.
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Our Money Worries are Over
Published : November 05, 2008 | Author : cashsaver | Unrated |
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 A new party and a new president are installed in the White House and the world is reacting as if our money worries are suddenly over. Whether the new president can really improve the US and world economies remains to be seen - the joy and celebrations may be just as much about the old president leaving as the new one arriving.
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Calmer waters for Money Markets
Published : November 04, 2008 | Author : MoneyMan | Rating :  |
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| After what seemed a relentless spell of shocks and drops in the finance world the waters seem to be slightly calmer this week with no big surges, either up or down, in the various markets around the world. Of course there are still some big falls being announced but they appear to be as expected and are not causing waves.
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Describing the worst
Published : October 24, 2008 | Author : TakeNote | Unrated |
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 Finance pundits have had plenty of time to dream up new ways of describing the poor situation we, and the rest of the world it seems, find ourselves in at the moment. So how do they pick the moment to roll out those words that describe the situation at its worst? The doom superlatives seem to have finally arrived today.
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Specific Predictions
Published : October 22, 2008 | Author : MoneyMan | Rating : |
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| When you spend your time listening to the radio and watching the TV news you end up being bombarded with a mix of real information jumbled up with a healthy dose of "ifs" and maybes". That's because organisations like the BBC can't offer too much in the way of opinion and prediction. But for the man in the street, struggling to understand what all this financial upset really means for him, some glimse of what the future is likely to bring would be very useful. So here's my money "what's happening next" article.
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Calm still on hold for Financiers
Published : October 17, 2008 | Author : missmoney | Rating :  |
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| After one of the most stormy weeks on the world's markets for over 20 years, financiers around the globe must be yearning for a week of calm. Stock markets have seen regular 10 per cent gains and falls on a daily basis and nerves must be fraying in fund management departments in every big investment company. Surely the turbulent waters must calm soon.
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Pensions Suffer
Published : October 10, 2008 | Author : cashsaver | Rating : |
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| The crash in the money markets today, combined with the loering of interest rates and the falls in property prices must be leaving pension funds managers with nowhere to turn to. It seems there is no safe haven for anyone's money and fund managers must be wondering what to do next wit their fund's capital.
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Crisis as Money Markets Crash
Published : October 06, 2008 | Author : MoneyMan | Unrated |
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| Today has to be one of the worst so far since the credit crunch started to take hold back in September 2007. To say that stock markets around the world are in free fall could be viewed as a slight exaggeration, but it really is only a slight one. Share across Europe, the Far East and the US fell by on average 10 per cent as the markets began to realise that the protection measures suggested, and put in place, by various Governments were having little effect. The system is simply grinding to a halt as companies refuce to get back into the business of making loans.
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Banking Assistance Hots Up
Published : October 03, 2008 | Author : TakeNote | Rating : |
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| Governments around the world are leaping to the rescue of their biggest finance companies in an attempt to avoid meltdown in the money markets. Regulations that force banks to maintain a certain level of assets is forcing them to hold onto their cash and restrict lendin;, activities that are straggling the world money markets. Confidnce is the key that can unlock the viscious circle and that last thing that Governments want is for the fears held by the banks to spread to the wider population.
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The New face of UK Banks
Published : September 29, 2008 | Author : missmoney | Rating : |
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| All of a sudden the acquisition, merger, nationalisation and closure of firms in the UK finance sector is accelerating. The outcome is sure to result in the new face of banking in the UK. We had already seen acquisitions of some business but this new era is going to be moe fundamental.
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Market adjustments
Published : September 23, 2008 | Author : MoneyMan | Unrated |
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| There almost no doubt that the world's financial markets are experiencing the most dramatic, unsettling and even unpredictable series of events ever seen. With money still in short supply, banks suffering huge losses and Governments around the world trying as much as they can to prevent the markets imploding, only time will show the outcome of these remarkable times.
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Banking Crisis
Published : September 15, 2008 | Author : TakeNote | Unrated |
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| The world of banking received yet another massive blow today, just when it thought it had taken enough punishment. There are now worries that the finance institutions of the major countries could still be harbouring unsavoury truths and the world stock markets are reacting accordingly.
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Remember when interest rates were lower than today? It's all too easy to forget how low rates were so here's a brief history of facts. |
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