Brave enough to buy now?
As I write this article the FTSE-100 has fallen by about 31 per cent since the start of 2008. Banks are going bust and turning to the Government for help, governments in Europe, UK and USA are co-ordinating surprise interest rate cuts and injecting billions into the financial system without, it would seem, any effect.
Video guide: Time to get your finances in order
In our latest Money Matters video Chris McDonald of Cumberland Building Society gives some tips on how to ensure your finances are set up to ease the pain of the credit crunch.
Keeping your money safe with banks
Paul Dickson, of Armstrong Watson, talks about the crisis currently engulfing the British banking system and offers advice about which banks to use and why you should think seriously about putting your money outside the UK.
Advice from the experts
There’s relief for investments in these most taxing of times
Up until last April the normal rate of Capital Gains Tax (CGT) was 40 per cent. Now it is true that, for some, tax reliefs could lower the effective rate to as low as 10 per cent, but the majority paid tax at 40 per cent.
Personal finance news
Black October for buyers with a tracker mortgage
Tracker mortgage rates for new borrowers soared to a seven-and-a-half-year high during October despite interest rates falling during the month.
Rising fuel costs and food bills have left us all feeling the pinch. Phillip Ward of the Cumberlnad Building Society has some tips on surviving the credit crunch.
In our latest Money Matters video Chris McDonald, of the Cumberland Building Society, offers advise to home owners facing the end of a fixed-rate mortgage deal.
