Infographic: Budget Winners & Losers

March 20th, 2013

Deloitte have put together an infographic detailing the winners and losers from today’s budget.

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Emergency Budget Calculator

June 22nd, 2010

Struggling to work out whether you’ll be better or worse off after today’s emergency budget?

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Pre-Budget Report Thoughts & Expert Analysis

December 10th, 2009

Today’s pre-budget report presented by Chancellor Darling has taken most of today’s headlines, with politics seeming to overtake economics this time round, obviously with an eye on next year’s General election.

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Cancel That Party: UK Is Still In Recession

October 23rd, 2009

Probably best to put that champagne on ice, because the UK hasn’t exited the recession as had been expected. The latest GDP figures released show that the UK economy contracted by 0.4% between July and September.

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Graph: How Does This Recession Compare To Previous Recessions?

July 24th, 2009

ThisIsMoney points to an interesting graph comparing the current recession to some of the previous economic slumps.

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What’s The Truth About Our Economic Prospects?

July 20th, 2009

Lovemoney.com have produced a video featuring the opinions a few respected financial commentators to try to get to the bottom of whether we’re starting to come out of the recession, or whether we’re destined to suffer from it for some time to come. The conclusions they come to make for …

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Feeling Deflated?

April 21st, 2009

So, Britain has officially fallen into a period of deflation, for the first time in nearly 50 years, with the news that the Retail Price Index (RPI), has gone sub zero, to -0.4%.

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FSA Bank Reforms At A Glance

March 19th, 2009

The BBC has a run down of the FSA’s bank reform recommendations announced today, which are aimed at bringing us out of this horrible mess and prevent it happening in the future.

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Interest Rates Cut To 0.5%

March 5th, 2009

The Bank of England has decided to halve the UK interest rates to a new all-time low of just 0.5%.

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Poll: UK Interest Rate Decision Tomorrow

March 4th, 2009

Might be a little late for this poll, but what the heck. The Bank of England will make its monthly decision on interest rates tomorrow (Thursday 5th March), with rates currently sitting at the lowest ever rate of 1%.

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