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On 28 September 2026, Bodycote published the scheme document for its takeover by Veritas Capital, an American private equity firm. The deal values the engineering group at roughly…
Research published in September 2026 by the wealth manager Raymond James found that around one in six of the 3,000 savers it surveyed had stopped paying into a…
ISA inheritance tax is the part of the ISA story that rarely gets explained at the point you open the account. An ISA shelters your money from Income…
For the first time, the full new State Pension sits within a few pounds of the tax-free personal allowance, and the wage figures published this month suggest it…
On 16 September 2026 the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates. The Fed rate hike took the target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75% to 4.00%,…
Oil moved sharply at the start of this week, and many UK investors will have felt it without ever deciding to own a barrel of crude. If you…
If you are working out how to start investing in the UK and you would rather not pick every holding yourself, XTB has just changed something worth knowing…
If you were born between 1 September 2002 and 2 January 2011, the government almost certainly opened a Child Trust Fund in your name, paid money into it,…
Cross £100,000 of income in the UK and something strange happens. You do not enter a new tax band, yet the tax taken from your next slice of…
Two people can retire on the same money, spend the same amount each month, and still end up on opposite sides of a £35,000 line that decides whether…
NS&I has raised the Premium Bonds prize fund rate to 4.35% from the September 2026 draw. That figure is a pooled average across all bondholders, not a rate…
US public debt passed $40 trillion in August 2026. Here is what the published figures actually say, and whether any of it should change what sits in your…
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