Markit reports improvement in household finances as pay grows

Markit reports household finances are improving

Markit's latest household finance index shows an improvement as extra work help increase spare cash and inflation expectations recede.

Asking prices for UK homes reach new record high of £250,000

Sir Mervyn King warns against "demonising" bankers

Citizens Advice calls for ban on cold calling after Ofcom study

Insurance

Post Office launches "Quick Quote and Buy" home insurance

MPs call back Google for more questions over tax

Co-op telematics data shows young women safer drivers than men

Mortgages

Asking prices for UK homes reach new record high of £250,000

Sir Mervyn King warns against "demonising" bankers

Bank of England lowers inflation and raises growth forecast

Savings

Jockey Club extends retail bond deadline by 15 days

Skipton BS launch new e-bond savings range paying up to 2.40%

OFT not to refer current accounts to Competition Commission

Investments

Ocado shares jump on deal with Morrisons

RBS taxpayer share sale could start within a year

Osborne holds firm on austerity amid economic growth signals

Pensions

Markit reports improvement in household finances as pay grows

Unemployment rises by 15,000 to 2.52m in first quarter of 2013

Pension charges to be banned under auto-enrolment

Cut Your Bills

Citizens Advice calls for ban on cold calling after Ofcom study

Drop in number of households in fuel poverty in 2011, says DECC

5.5 million taxpayers paid wrong amount of tax last year

Loans and Credit

NIESR predicts UK GDP growth accelerating in April

MBNA implements improvements to Everyday Credit Card offer

TUC puts the case against austerity as the IMF arrives in UK

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