The chancellor may be on the warpath, but business owners can still wipe out their tax bill using clever advice, according to the sponsors of a seminar in Edinburgh this week.
The mortgage squeeze is gripping tighter, with banks less willing than ever to help homebuyers who only have small deposits, according to a new survey.
We were reluctant sellers of another three of our share tips last week as the stock market fell to fresh 2012 lows on the continuing concerns over the future of the euro.
Online stockbrokers TD Direct this week reported a 50% increase in trading of its 10 most popular stocks as investors responded to the intensifying crisis in the eurozone.
As the eurozone crisis goes from bad to worse, UK owners of property on the Continent are putting them up for sale so they can bring their money back to the UK.
Actively managed investment funds need transparent, consumer-friendly pricing to survive pressure from low-cost indexed funds and savvy investors, leading fund industry players said in Edinburgh yesterday.
In the current low-interest, high-inflation environment, it is tempting to conclude that saving is a waste of money and you might as well spend everything you have.
Satellite broadband provider Avanti Communications played a starring role among our share tips last week when its price soared more than 10% on a wave of speculative support.
The power of the internet to harness freelance workers from around the globe is creating opportunities for the web-savvy young generation to escape the jobs crisis, says pioneering cyberpreneur Matt Barrie.
Rising mortgage costs will be "the last straw" for many Scottish homeowners, pushing them into debt problems and into the arms of unscrupulous, fee-charging debt advice services, according to a leading charity.
Investors fought shy of the markets in the first quarter of 2012, with net retail sales down by more than a third compared with the first quarters of 2010 and 2011, and equity funds getting the cold shoulder.
Almost one-third of employers are unaware that they will soon have to enrol employees into a pension, according to a survey published today, while more than two-thirds of employees are in the dark about automatic enrolment.
Our share tips kept their heads above the water in last week's choppy stock-market conditions to show another increase in their total value when we carried out our usual review of progress.
THE average investment fund has seriously under-performed its market index over the past 10 years, despite the far higher costs of active funds over trackers, new research has found.
The pound this week hit its highest level against the euro since late 2009, which is good news for anyone planning a holiday in Europe in the coming months.
OUR share tips advanced across a broad front last week, with the total value of the four portfolios up by £890 when we reviewed their progress on Wednesday morning.
More than 3000 charities have signed up to the Give it Back George campaign, urging the Chancellor to reconsider the controversial tax on wealthy donors that could cost them millions of pounds in lost donations.
Wonga, the payday lender, is paying customers up to £100 to sell its loans to their friends on Facebook, despite charging more than 20 times the interest of a standard credit card.
Boiler room fraud, the cold-calling of investors to persuade them to invest in overpriced, non-tradeable or non-existent shares, netted fewer victims last year, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) reported this week.
More than 150 firms of independent financial advisers face legal proceedings from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) over their sale of Keydata products.