Financial Eyes & Ears

This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. Happy anniversary to…well, all of us, I guess. This post marks my one-year (and [...]

‘Generous exemptions’ for profits related to business, in a bid to offset concerns about the potential chilling effect of the tax increase on entrepreneurs

Banks were faced with a deluge of customer complaints in the second half of last year as a waiver that had allowed them to defer claims relating to high penalty charges was lifted after two years

Bank of England will be given macro-prudential control – monitoring systemic risk in the economy – but Liberal Democrats insisted that it should not also be responsible for regulating individual banks

A planned rise in the IHT threshold will be scrapped and a rise in the income tax threshold will become the aim following the deal thrashed out between Conservatives and Lib Dems

The UK stock market will open to a new Conservative government after staging a late rally as a solution to Britain's political turmoil arrived

Who writes checks anymore? Apparently, enough of us to justify large "No personal checks accepted" signs on restaurant doors, and services that verify that you have funds before your purchase is complete. Many of our small town grocers still take them, no questions asked — but times they are a-changin! We want to know if [...]

Suggestions that the Liberal Democrats are close to making a deal with the Tories saw London shares recover some of their losses just before the close today