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From 30 October, tariffs will be eased on some products, including certain machinery, and placed on others, such as carpets.
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Asset rich, cash poor: the short version You are asset rich and cash poor when most of your net worth sits in a house you live in and cannot spend. A paid-off home pays you nothing each month. There are only four ways to turn it into money — sell it, shrink it, let part of it, or borrow against it — and each one costs something. The cheapest fix…
Can you get a mortgage on trading income? Yes, but a lender will treat you as self-employed, so the mortgage stands on your SA302 tax calculations, tax year overviews and bank statements rather than payslips. Most want two years of figures. A smaller group will lend on one, and that route runs through a specialist broker rather than a branch. Why this page exists We write a lot here about…
Quick Answer: What Happened to the £500? It survived, which is not nothing. Four weeks of spread betting spot gold on a live IG account turned £500 into £459.35. Call the £40.65 a tuition bill, and note who got paid: only about £4.45 of it went to IG in spread and overnight funding. The rest went to my own decisions, most of it to a single trade where I doubled…
Quick Answer: Which Spread Betting Strategies Actually Survived? Out of everything this programme has tried with real money since spring, three strategies are still standing: planned index breakouts in the US afternoon, financing-aware swing holds, and news-settle entries taken after the spread calms down rather than during the fireworks. Two approaches got formally retired, news-spike scalping and set-and-forget trend holds, and in both cases it was the costs that did…
Quick Answer: What Does the First Month of Day Trading Actually Look Like? A real education, at a knowable price. I funded a live IG account with £1,000 on Monday 3 August 2026 and traded it for four calendar weeks. It finished the month at £846.60, and the interesting part is the shape of the journey: two winning weeks, one expensive stretch of three days when I traded my frustration…
Quick Answer: What Do UK Day Traders Actually Pay in Tax? On my own numbers, almost nothing, and the reason is the wrapper rather than the profit. Last tax year my spread betting account finished £4,120 up and the tax on that was zero: no capital gains tax, no income tax, no stamp duty. My CFD account made £3,650 over the same year; after the £3,000 annual exempt amount, £650…
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Wall Street closes lower to end rocky week ReutersOil hits five-month high as global stocks wobble on AI fears; retail sales in Great Britain fall as shoppers cut back - as it happened The GuardianDaily Stock Market Report (Fri 23 Oct 2026) - RBN, BOO, PHP StockopediaOil hits five-month high amid fears of fresh strikes on Iran – latest updates The TelegraphAI Trade Stumbles Again as Investors Rediscover Treasury Haven Bloomberg.com
Do British pensioners have it better or worse than those in other countries?
Do British pensioners have it better or worse than those in other countries?
The chancellor will unveil AI spending aimed at shoring up the UK's defences in Wednesday's Budget.
Treasury predicts extra funding will create and support 100,000 jobs as chancellor seeks to exploit flexibility in government’s fiscal rules
Former CEO of Polar Train LNG tells FT that gas giant Novatek financed and controlled strategic Alaska project without US approval
Make draught excluders from socks, leave your oven door open after cooking and opt for lots of thin layers of clothing to stay warm.
Candidates’ similar names could ‘taint’ the result, argues US Justice Department
President to ease some levies to help candidates facing tough US Senate election battles
