The best student finance deals
Sometimes it is probably easier finding the right university or college than a suitable student bank account. The main problem is that there are so many to choose from that it is about time that there was some help in finding the right one.
Below is a list of those student accounts, which are considered to [...]
BP invests in eco fuels
BP has been marketing themselves as a green oil company, they have changed their logo to look like a flower and now they are investing into an eco fuel business named Verenium.
This is the first time that BP have actually become involved with green fuels, but they are not doing by halves the investment is [...]
More banks should be helped out
There are calls from the former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan to work more with the banks in order to allow them to keep going.
Just leaving the banks to suffer in silence could be disastrous for the world economy. However, at the same time can governments actually afford to bail all of [...]
Can we have our £80 billion back?
Friday the 13th October 1307 is supposed to be the origins of the unluckiest date, and there is good reason for it, because on this day an alliance between Pope Clement V and King Philip IV of France smashed the organisation known as the Knights Templar.
Many people will know of this because of the film [...]
Tesco to open bank
It had to come sooner or later, the superstore, which wants to provide everything that their customers need is now going into the banking industry.
The thought of all of those customers going through their stores, but still using outside facilities for other services is just getting too much for the management of Tesco’s.
So instead [...]
Who are the richest people of all time?
When we think of the wealthiest people around, normally the likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and the Sultan of Brunei spring to mind. But although these people hold some serious wealth in today’s crazy world, their wealth when worked out in relation to the economy is fairly small.
So just who are the richest people [...]
Banking crisis could show loses of £800 billion
At lot has been said about the credit crunch, but in reality this may be revised to a credit crisis! As warnings are coming out that banks worldwide are bracing themselves for a series of massive loses.
The problem is that some people would be inclined to say that it’s their own faults and get on [...]
Food prices increasing due to bio fuels
When bio fuels first started appearing they were greeted as the next greatest thing to hit the automotive world. But as this new form of making our fuel resources last longer has become popular, there are now concerns that maybe bio fuels aren’t as great as we first thought.
Environmental campaigners are now claiming that the [...]
Cutting the cost of filling up
As the price of fuel seems to increase almost on a weekly basis, we have several choices to combat the fuel price crunch. We can just grin and bare it, don’t drive at all or we can take some positive action and find ways of cutting the price of filling up.
Below are some ideas to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Looking after the pennies
There is that saying where looking after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves. Well one man in the US did just that and has allegedly fleeced banks out of $50,000 a few cents at a time.
Anyone who has opened up a PayPal account will know that they deposit a small amount into [...]