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ScottishPower today announced reductions in its gas prices for around 1.7 million domestic gas customers and a new winter rebate for vulnerable customers who heat their homes with electricity.
E.ON has today (Monday) announced it will decrease gas prices for its residential customers1 effective from 31st March 2010. The company is also simplifying its bills so they are clearer and easier to understand.
The maximum limit for contactless card transactions in the UK has increased from £10 to £15, making paying for small transactions by debit or credit card even easier for millions of customers.
Failing to understand your home loan and its interest rate is no help if you are trying to keep your budget under control.
PizzaExpress joins thousands of small and medium size retailers that have already joined the scheme, all of which will offer Reward Money to Barclaycard’s eight million customers when the scheme launches in March.
When cash ISAs were first launched in 1999, the average rate was 5.71%, now, it is just 2.12%, and if you want instant access to your cash, the average rate is a miserable 0.76%.
Personal debt in the UK reached £1,460 billion at the end of 2009, with the average household owing £9,000 - almost £58,000 including mortgages.
The chances are if you’re an aspiring first time buyer, you’ve never even heard of mortgage “rationing”. That’s because the last decade and more have seen banks and building societies bending over backwards to lend money, rather than check whether buyers have the means of repaying the vast sums they’ve been borrowing.
There’s been plenty of talk about a rise in interest rates. But it hasn’t happened so far and if most economists are right, it still won’t happen for some time yet.
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