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Walmart's electronic price tags are sparking fears
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (898+ words) By SARA MCGIFF, US REAL ESTATE & CONSUMER REPORTER Retailers like Walmart are under fire for their aggressive rollout of digital price tags as fears grow that grocery prices could be subjected to high-tech manipulation." Walmart is quickly making these tiny…...
Property market stumbles as homebuyer mortgages drop 15% in a month
10+ hour, 26+ min ago (530+ words) The property market appears to be stuttering after a sharp fall in the number of homebuyer mortgages. Mortgage approvals for house purchases dived 14. 9 per cent to 56, 205 in May, compared to the month before, according to Bank of England data released…...
America's hottest housing market is a surprising East Coast city
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (484+ words) By BENJAMIN CURRY, US DEPUTY CONSUMER EDITOR A New Jersey city once known as the car theft capital of the world has transformed itself over the last three decades from a blighted crime metropolis to one of the hottest real…...
Grab NS&I's 4. 69% savings deal now - it won't last long: SYLVIA MORRIS
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (571+ words) By SYLVIA MORRIS, THIS IS MONEY AND DAILY MAIL SAVINGS EXPERT National Savings & Investments is pulling out all the stops to woo savers. Last month it announced the Premium Bond prize rate will rise for next week's draw, bringing an…...
Reeves accused of leaving economy 'on its knees' amid recession fears
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (419+ words) By HUGO DUNCAN, BUSINESS EDITOR Rachel Reeves has been accused of leaving the British economy "on its knees" as businesses crumble under rising costs and taxes. In a devastating double-whammy ahead of the Chancellor's likely sacking, reports showed manufacturers and…...
How your Isa could be losing you money if you have too much cash in it
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (809+ words) More than 1. 5million people have at least "100, 000 saved in their Isa. However, if you leave it in cash, it's likely to underperform stocks and shares and may even lose value over time due to inflation. Instead, you could invest your "100, 000 in…...
Former head of the Federal Reserve dead at 100
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (548+ words) Alan Greenspan, the economist who became one of the most powerful figures in global finance in his nearly two decades at the US Federal Reserve, has died at the age of 100. Greenspan, who chaired the Federal Reserve from 1987 until 2006 under…...
Bank of England governor takes on his critics amid deep-fake video
1+ week, 18+ hour ago (619+ words) Kevin Warsh, who has just had his first interest rate meeting at the Federal Reserve, saw his predecessor Jay Powell suffer abuse from Donald Trump for refusing to do the President's bidding." The post is a deep-fake, but the pair…...
Hotel boss warns over Labour's attack on job creation and investment
1+ week, 1+ day ago (742+ words) By HUGO DUNCAN, BUSINESS EDITOR One of Britain's leading hoteliers has warned Labour that "policy after policy is threatening job creation and investment' " with the young bearing the brunt of the pain. As the youth unemployment crisis deepens, a senior…...
JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Labour's taxes are killing aspiration
1+ week, 2+ day ago (734+ words) By JEFF PRESTRIDGE, MONEY EDITOR AT LARGE My dad, Stan the Man (God rest his soul), adored Margaret Thatcher. Whenever I came back home in the 1980s to see my parents, and talk moved on to politics " usually after a glass…...