Channel Four pays £150,000 ransom
Paying kidnappers is supposed to be a definite no for anyone or organisation to even consider as an option. For one reason there is the possibility that the hostage will not be released, or that the payment will just encourage them to do the same thing over again as it is a good money spinner.
Obviously [...]
£40 million for a Monet
When it comes to finance there people around that do not appear to be affected by the credit crunch, this can be normally found true when it comes to fine art auctions. This is most certainly true when it comes to the fins art sale at Christies in London this week.
They had a particularly nice [...]
Saving money on petrol
With the price of fuel taking off, the cost of filling up is getting higher virtually every week! But for some people who are already feeling the pinch from the credit crunch, these small but regular increases will eventually reach a point where the cost of driving is quite simply too high.
But as normal there [...]
Tackling your debt head on
The first thing that anyone who is in debt would to do is stop increasing your debts, this may involve cutting up the credit cards that are probably the main cause of the debt in the first place. By cutting these up you are making a physical decision to get yourself free of debt, forever!
There [...]
Is the credit crunch a conspiracy?
Despite all of the media coverage about credit crunch and how it is affecting almost everyone no matter what they or where they live, there are some people n fact around thirty eight per cent of a survey conducted for the insurer Zurich, believe that the credit crunch will not affect them.
This boldness could be [...]
Chancellor says “Times of tough”
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling has been quoted as saying “Times are tough” thank goodness for that, we must be all sleeping better now! But in all seriousness he has insisted that the UK will be able to survive the current credit crunch.
However since mentioning that we will all come out of this [...]
Iran makes a withdrawal
There is no doubt that the next six months will be slightly hair raising to say the least, with changes happening around the world with oil and different outlooks. It seems that certain nations around the world are also keeping an eye on things too.
Could this be why Iran has withdrawn something in the region [...]
Doctor gets £35 per week
With many services being stretched to the limit, it must be strange to find people who are highly qualified people living in this country but because of their circumstances cannot work and cannot return to their own place of origin.
Welcome to the life of an asylum seeker, where there are many fully qualified professionals, who [...]
Gay marriage business worth millions
The wedding industry has always been a big business, but with marriages not being as popular as before times could have been tough, but as with many areas of business every cloud has a silver lining and this cloud came just at the right time.
Gay weddings are now the big business which is fuelling other [...]
How to be smart with money
The time to start to have look at how your finances are going is now, when time are beginning to get tight. Things like the credit crunch may not be having a direct effect on your finances yet, but it will eventually as food and fuel prices begin to bite.
So what can you do to [...]
ING offers safer online banking
ING Direct is launching a nice little piece of software which is going to help the security between their website and their customer’s computer.
This means that even if the computer has been infected with a programme such as malware or spyware, which is great for all computer users as this adds another level of security [...]
The cost of burying your pet
Arranging funerals for pets is fast becoming a big business and as this sector of industry expands the more companies become interested in getting involved.
With prices ranging from £50 right up £500, there is the potential for a good caring business which can help grieving pet owners say goodbye to their faithful friends in a [...]
Making the most of reward programmes
With so many reward schemes around these days, it is just too difficult to gauge which ones are worthwhile, after all you only get a small amount of which can be described a discount or saving.
These schemes can be in the form of discount cards, points awarded on how you spend in a certain store [...]
TV stars earning millions
As many people are feeling the credit crunch, it seems that this is not the feeling that the stars on TV and Radio are getting. With recent reviews of spending and costs it has been revealed that around forty of the most popular faces of TV and Radio are earning over one million pounds per [...]
June 2, 2008Are there any currencies stronger than the Euro?
It would have to be something special if there was a currencies which performs better than the Euro at the moment, but there is and it comes from a very unexpected area.
The currency in Israel, the Shekel has been performing very well over the months and years, but in particular since the beginning of 2008, [...]