Yesterday the Federal Reserve America' central bank released minutes from its latest interest-rate setting meeting.Today, it's the European Central Bank's turn, and investors will probably be paying a lot more attention to the details of this particular debate.
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RICS: homebuyers are returning after stamp duty shockThe housing market has been subdued since stamp duty thresholds dropped in April, but there are signs of a recovery
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Reducing cash ISA limit will make lending difficult and expensive, warn providersAn open letter from the Building Societies Association has urged the chancellor to keep the cash ISA limit at £20,000. We look at whether a smaller cash ISA allowance will make it harder to get a mortgage or loan
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Warning to employees: the value of your employer can fall as well as riseFeatures If we are to make employee share ownership more widely available – as we should – we have to educate workers on how equity markets behave, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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Hands off the Royal MailFeatures If Labour comes to power, it has promised to renationalise the country’s postie. It should leave well alone – the business is doing just fine as it is, says Max King.
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Everything’s for saleEditor's letter The underpriced valuation of Royal Mail proves that nothing's changed in decades, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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Royal Mail: Another botched sell-off
Editor's letter As the chaotic privatisation of Royal Mail showed, the government has learnt nothing, says Merryn Somerset Webb.
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Royal Mail comes to market
Features Britain’s biggest privatisation since the 1980s proved a big hit with the public this week.
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Privatising the Queen’s head
Features Is the government right to be selling off yet another national treasure in the Royal Mail? Piper Terrett reports.
