News Archive | May 2025

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May 30th
- Family must pay £176k inheritance tax bill due to common gifting error – how you can avoid it
May 29th
- How much more you would need to save if UK state pension age hit 70
- Pension savers could get £6,000 boost under ‘megafunds’ plans, government says
- Trump tariffs challenged by US court
- Nationwide launches 5% savings account – who is eligible?
May 28th
- Shein shifts IPO focus to Hong Kong
- Scientists turn lead into gold – could it wreck the yellow metal's price?
- Rural homes beat urban properties for price growth – where are house prices soaring?
- Santander axes 1% cashback on spending for Edge account customers
- Estates without a will hit five-year high – as two in five Brits prepared to go to court over inheritance
May 27th
- Zoopla: Busiest home buying May since 2021, but property asking prices slide
- Fraudsters steal £144 million in investment fraud – despite fall in cases
- IMF suggests “refinements” to Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules
- Workplace pension salary sacrifice schemes could be under threat as HMRC explores options
- Nvidia results: stock gains on tariff news
May 23rd
- A rebound in UK's commercial property – should you invest?
- New Ofgem energy price cap shows prices will fall 7% in July
May 22nd
- Ofcom ranks the worst and best companies for broadband and phone services
- Wonderwallets: UK set for £1 billion boost from Oasis reunion tour
- IHT receipts rose by almost an extra £100m in April – and the bills are only going up
May 21st
- UK house prices rose 6.4% over the past 12 months – will there be a property market surge?
- Angela Rayner secret tax memo to Rachel Reeves: could these tax hikes become a reality?
- The most popular UK small caps among investment trust managers
- Working from home could boost your pension pot by £160k
May 20th
- One million pensioners are now higher rate taxpayers and it's not just income tax to worry about
- HMRC slaps pensioners with record high surprise tax bills - do you owe the taxman money?
- Chase UK launches first credit card – how does it compare?
- M&S results: cyber attack to cost £300 million in profit
- UK inflation jumps to 3.5%, hitting highest level in over a year
- Average earners now face £200,000 inheritance tax bill - how much will your estate owe?
- Are the wealthy dodging more tax than previously thought?
May 19th
- Six out of 10 retirees who accessed a pension didn’t use Pension Wise - how does the guidance service work?
- UK-EU trade deal: Britain to get a £9bn boost to the economy by 2040
- New buy now, pay later rules confirmed – will they protect you?
- Active ETFs gain nearly 70% in AUM
May 18th
- Rightmove: UK asking prices hit record high but Britain enters buyers market
May 16th
- Inheritance tax reforms: government urged to rethink curbs on rural reliefs
May 15th
- City watchdog warning: wealthy savers hold too much cash
- Inheritance tax could be due on the average property in just 10 years
- 225,000 savers cashed out their pension savings last year – what are the risks of a retirement raid?
May 14th
- Burberry’s share price surges despite collapsing profits and job cuts announcement
May 13th
- Pension schemes pledge to ‘back British’ with £25 billion private markets investment
May 12th
- Pension savers face running out of money just 11 years into retirement
- US-China trade talks: “amazing” meeting yields tariff truce
May 9th
- Bond fund inflows crash but equity investors 'buy the dip' amid Trump tariffs
- Thousands of energy customers get refund after overcharging error – how much could you be owed?
May 8th
- UK-US trade deal announced: US cuts tariffs on UK car imports to 10%
- How to use mid-caps to diversify from the US
- Regions lead with strongest annual house price growth – Halifax
- Can new management turn RIT Capital around?
- Nationwide cuts rates on 16 popular savings accounts
May 7th
- Bank of England cuts UK interest rates to 4.25%
May 6th
- Which investment trusts could benefit from lower interest rates?
- Unilever braces for inflation amid tariff uncertainty – what does it mean for investors?
May 2nd
- What's next for Liberal Mark Carney after Canadian election win
- Cryptoasset crackdown – Bitcoin, Ethereum and the rest finally face regulation
May 1st
- Who won the £1 million jackpot in the May Premium Bonds prize draw?