Waste your cash on holiday gifts – not on currency April 20, 2011 BRITS waste £245m of precious holiday money every year when they buy their currency outside of the UK, MoneyCorp research shows. And that doesn’t even count the cash wasted by those buying it in the UK at uncompetitive prices. While most of us know we’ll be ripped off if we wait until we get to [...]
THE TIPSTER April 3, 2011 THIS week sees a fourth quarter trading update from Marks & Spencer. The impact of the VAT hike, rising commodity prices and careful consumers will make for interesting reading. With so many others on the high street struggling, there is no real hope of a good performance from M&S. Overseas ambitions may well help in [...]
THE TIPSTER April 3, 2011 THIS week sees a fourth quarter trading update from Marks & Spencer. The impact of the VAT hike, rising commodity prices and careful consumers will make for interesting reading. With so many others on the high street struggling, there is no real hope of a good performance from M&S. Overseas ambitions may well help in [...]
L&G boosts dividend as it beats targets March 17, 2011 UK INSURER Legal & General boosted its divided by 24 per cent yesterday on the back of a £1bn operating profit, and said it expected to benefit from stronger demand for savings products in future as reduced welfare provision forces consumers to save more. Though operating profits fell slightly from £1.1bn in 2009, they remained [...]
PERSONAL FINANCE NEWS February 2, 2011 SPACE INVADERS COST £66M Space invaders, houseguests who stay with friends and family for weeks at a time without paying rent, are causing havoc. More than 4.9m homeowners have been left counting the cost of houseguests who overstayed their welcome last year. Direct Line research shows that the space invaders caused £66m in damages to [...]
The brothers who love the high life March 9, 2011 VINCENT Tchenguiz’s 40ft yacht lies empty at a port in Cannes, a party scheduled for tonight on indefinite hold after his arrest. Its bombastic name, Veni Vidi Vici, has been the source of some amusement since the brothers’ vast empire began to unravel in the wake of the recession. If things continue as they have [...]
Supermarket sales slowing as shoppers rein in spending March 1, 2011 SALES growth at grocers slowed in February, despite higher prices, according to market research published yesterday, adding to signs of growing caution among consumers since the start of the year. Kantar Worldpanel said grocery sales rose 3.9 per cent year-on-year in the 12 weeks to 20 February, down from 4.2 per cent growth for the [...]
Owners of British technology company Edwards plot stock market offering March 14, 2011 BRITISH vacuum technology producer Edwards Group is plotting a London listing to raise at least £375m. The firm provides chipmakers with vacuum technology needed to make microprocessors, used in products such as Apple’s iPad. Its private equity backers own a combined 90 per cent stake of the firm, which was valued at £1.5bn last year. [...]
Why filling in the census improves your life March 9, 2011 SO, how old are you? Have you ever been married? Who do you live with? Do you have a mortgage? How many bedrooms do you have? What religion are you? Yes, it might feel like Big Brother plopped on our doormats this week. The 2011 census asks questions that probably many of us would find [...]
Dido’s gamble means white flag isn’t likely February 8, 2011 DIDO Harding is a keen racehorse owner whose horse Cool Dawn won the Cheltenham Gold Cup in 1998. But perhaps the biggest gamble of her career was leaving the sector she had become synonymous with to take the reins at TalkTalk. Harding made her name in supermarkets, first as an executive at Tesco, which she [...]