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  • Mortgages: cut out the middle man for the best rates
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:01:00 +0100
    Increasingly, high street banks are not only by-passing brokers ? the only place a potential homebuyer can get truly impartial advice on a home loan ? but they are restricting their best offers to existing customers.
  • Morning Line: Why should first time buyers suffer?
    Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:20:38 +0100
    If the Bank of England is serious about capping mortgage loan-to-value ratios as a means of preventing another credit crisis then it risks excluding more young people from home ownership. Is this what the coalition really wants?
  • Mortgages: don't write off a fixed rate
    Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:01:00 +0100
    Most people are opting for a tracker mortgage, but it is not the right option for everyone. Lorna Bourke considers the options for borrowers.

FT.com - Your Pension

  • Savers hold on to pension pots
    Fri, 3 Sep 2010 18:09:15 +0100
    Investors are increasingly leaving their pension pots invested in the stock market, as the retirement income offered by insurance companies fell to an all-time low this week
  • Final salary decision is looming faster
    Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:04:00 +0100
    People who want to leave their final-salary pension scheme and join a personal pension instead are being urged to act now before new rules prevent them from moving

BBC Business News

  • Six million facing new tax bills
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:20:07 GMT
    HM Revenue and Customs says some 1.4 million people each owe about £1,500 in tax, while 4.3 million will get an average rebate of £418.
  • Banks leave customers in 'poverty'
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 09:29:15 GMT
    High Street banks have been accused of leaving some customers in "dire poverty" after taking money out of their accounts without permission.
  • Nigerian economy 'to grow by 10%'
    Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:04:42 GMT
    Nigeria's economy will hit double-digit growth by the end of 2011 or early 2012, the country's finance minister says.
  • Bank customers in 'dire poverty'
    Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:02:20 GMT
    Banks are accused of leaving some customers in "dire poverty" after taking money out of their accounts without permission.

BBC News

  • Blair pelted with eggs in Dublin
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:46:34 GMT
    Shoes, eggs and plastic bottles are thrown at Tony Blair as he arrives at a book-shop in Dublin to sign copies of his memoirs.
  • Protests over French Roma policy
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:39:09 GMT
    Tens of thousands gather in Paris and other French cities to protest against the government's policy of deporting Roma people.
  • Karzai sets up Taliban talks body
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:08:02 GMT
    Afghan President Hamid Karzai has formed a committee to seek peace talks with the Taliban, his office says.
  • Balls enters 'phone hacking' row
    Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:52:47 GMT
    Labour leadership hopeful Ed Balls says the home secretary should make a statement about claims of phone tapping by the News of the World.

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