Financial Eyes & Ears

Currency markets reacted nervously as political leaders manoeuvred to achieve power, with the pound dipping as Gordon Brown offered to step aside in a deal with the Lib Dems

Tax relief for high earners could be abolished if Labour or the Tories strike a deal with the Liberal Democrats, experts fear

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With interest rates kept on hold at 0.5% today, sterling recovered from the lows it hit last Friday after the general election delivered a hung parliament

Link:  http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/money/article/read-your-financial-state… ShareThis Let’s face it — financial statements aren’t the most fascinating things to read. Unless, that is, you’re a banker. Your balance sheet and income statement tell a banker more about your business than you may think. Whether you’re applying for a new loan, renewing a line of credit, or submitting your financials [...]

Monetary policy has essentially been on hold since November. Since then interest rates and the programme of cash injections into the UK economy have been unchanged

As much as I’ve learned about money in the past five years, and as much as I like to share what I’ve learned, there are still times when I fail to follow my own advice. As I’ve mentioned, we live in a hundred-year-old house. This is a great and terrible thing. The house is beautiful [...]