Posted by Cashzilla in featured, insurance on 19. Apr, 2010 | 3 Comments
With Eyjafjallajokull causing problems to global travel, questions are building as to where insurance comes in and what about the pets?
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Oh, how the mighty banks have fallen.
Since Goldman Sachs started around 80 years, the phrase ‘Long-term greedy’ which was used by Sidney Weinberg, who was managing partner during the 1930s through to the 1960s, has been a sort of guiding mantra. This ‘Long-term greedy’ attitude helped the company grow from being a simple unknown [...]
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Well it seems as though the deal is going through after management announced they would support the Kraft proposal to takeover Cadbury. This is despite comments by Gordon Brown and, the trade union, Unite’s warning that Kraft plans at least 10,000 job cuts worldwide to slash costs and repay the cash it [...]
Cheques are to be phased out by October 2018 if adequate alternatives can be developed in time according to the latest announcement from the board of the UK Payments Council.
This announcement comes after 350 years of cheque usage, however because of the use of credit, debit and contactless payment cards, alongside online shopping and banking, [...]
It has just been announced that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) will be investigating online pricing practices.
It’s been a long time coming and will lead to major changes for those seemingly ‘white knights’ of the finance world – the price comparison sites.
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In the finance world, there is a little known [...]
Posted by MoneyRaptor in lifestyle on 11. Jun, 2009 | No Comments
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Every year as summer comes upon us, and cold blooded dinosaurs seek the warmth of sunnier climes, the age old question of what is the best way to pay for things abroad arises.
If you bank in the UK, and shop in the UK, then you don’t expect any additional charges to be added [...]
Posted by MoneyRaptor in housing on 05. May, 2009 | No Comments
Hoorah! for the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA).
Following swiftly on from an announcement by the National Landlords Association, that UK housing tenants are more in debt than at any time since the late 1980s, and with the global financial crisis still making lenders cautious about taking on first-time buyers without requiring a big [...]
Posted by MoneyRaptor in web on 19. Mar, 2009 | No Comments
Hello, all. I’m MoneyRaptor and I’ve been invited here to help out poor Uncle Cashzilla. As he gets older he gets forgetful (see 2008) but hopefully that’ll be the last time anything of that sort happens… at least for a while. My money-roar may be closer to a whimper right now but once Uncle stops [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 05. Mar, 2009 | 1 Comment
What is going on around the financial world at the moment. I stop blogging for a year and the world’s economy and banking system collapses. Sheesh!
Here in the UK the interest rate has today gone done to yet another record low, a mere 0.5%! Though I doubt many of the banks (if any) [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in web on 05. Mar, 2009 | No Comments
Well smack my dino claws, I did not realise quite how lax I had been on these posts. A year!! Maybe that is what happened to all my old dino pals. They didn’t die out, they just stopped blogging. Bloggosaurs come back all is forgiven.
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Posted by Cashzilla in housing on 10. Jan, 2008 | 5 Comments
The Halifax has announced that according to their figures, house prices were rising at an annual rate of just 5.2% in December, half the rate seen just three months earlier, the first time there had been an increase in the past four months.
David Kuo, head of personal finance at Fool.co.uk, said: “The long-overdue correction in [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in Uncategorized on 15. Oct, 2007 | No Comments
Hey Dinofans
Following a disagreement with my local bank which resulted in my biting the head off the manager and then rampaging through downtown Tokyo pursued by a troop of badly dubbed and poorly acted Japanese scientists and soldiers, I decided I wanted to rant and find out what the current view of the various banks [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking, credit cards on 15. Oct, 2007 | No Comments
Usually receiving emails from financial organisations are about as useful or welcome as a punch on the snout, however a recent one I received from Moneynet could prove a worthwhile reminder.
“There is nothing more annoying than being penalised by your credit card company for paying your bill a couple of days late but millions [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in housing, insurance on 03. Jul, 2007 | 3 Comments
As parts of the UK languish underwater, devastated by the recent floods, many homes and businesses are finding themselves in the difficult position of not knowing whether they will be covered by their insurance policies.
According to recent advice from the insurance industry, those who have been affected by the floods should contact their contents and [...]
Posted by Cashzilla in banking on 14. May, 2007 | 2 Comments
It was inevitable. The UK Bank of England rate has risen yet again, now reaching 5.5%. After years of continuously rising house prices, and the base rate remaining static, this is now the fourth rise since September, with some analysts predicting rates will probably rise yet again in the near future to reach [...]
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