Britons struggling to pay their household bills do not have spare cash to squirrel away in Isas – the level of savings in the tax-free accounts has fallen for the first time in the tax year to 2012.
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David Cameron 'disappointed' as economy shrinks
Wednesday 25 January 2012
David Cameron admitted today he was "disappointed" by figures showing the UK economy shrank in the final quarter of last year.
More families set to lose their homes as squeeze bites deeper
Monday 23 January 2012
Repossessions forecast to rise by 22 per cent to 45,000 this year as inflation and unemployment take toll
Greek debt swap talks suspended
Saturday 21 January 2012
Greece's government says that negotiations with private creditors aimed at lightening Greece's debt load have been suspended unexpectedly and that the creditors' representative has left Greece.
Derek Pain: 'Undercard' shares suffer neglect but they can make a comeback
Saturday 21 January 2012
No Pain, No Gain
Mark Dampier: With gilt yields low, bond funds look like a good bet
Saturday 14 January 2012
The Analyst
Bank holds rates at record low
Thursday 12 January 2012
The Bank of England held fire on further emergency measures for the UK economy today, despite another dose of worrying news from the manufacturing sector.
Simon English: Britain – best of a bad bunch for lenders?
Thursday 12 January 2012
Outlook "Investors pay to lend money to the UK," said the headline.
Bank of England urged to expand quantitative easing
Sunday 08 January 2012
The Bank of England was today urged not to waste time in issuing another dose of emergency medicine to help the ailing British economy.
Credit unions to come in from the cold
Sunday 08 January 2012
An overhaul of legislation should offer more people the chance to avoid high-cost payday loans
Sales of gilts soar thanks to Britain's status as a safe haven
Thursday 05 January 2012
Britain's safe-haven status triggered the sharpest spike in gilt purchases by foreign buyers since the Lehman Brothers collapse, Bank of England figures showed.
Ten people who changed the world: Hans-Werner Sinn, German economist who made sense of the financial crisis
Saturday 31 December 2011
Whether in the cut-throat field of politics or the fashion industry's corridors of power, this year they left our planet a better place. Celebrate 10 of the best, nominated by Independent writers
'Made up money' padding aid budget, critics claim
Friday 30 December 2011
Britain has been accused of padding its aid budget with "made up money" so it can claim to have met its millennium promise of increasing the amount it donates to the world's poorest people.
Italy's Mario Monti warns of ongoing market turbulence
Thursday 29 December 2011
Italy saw its borrowing rates fall for the second day running today but the country's new premier said his government had a lot more to do to convince nervous financial markets that it had a plan to deal with its debt mountain.
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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