Get ready to switch accounts…your savings rates are set to fall By Lindsay Cook, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 22:58 BST, 28 March 2020 | Updated: 22:58 BST, 28 March 2020 Many savers can expect a round of brutal interest rate cuts to their accounts from this week – after the Bank of England base … Read more
The Vatican is under pressure to let more employees work from home as its offices remain open two weeks after the Italian government ordered Italians home and shut down all non-essential businesses in an urgent attempt to contain the coronavirus. On the same day the Vatican confirmed four positive cases, Vatican employees in three different … Read more
A scaffolder who claimed to be a disabled ‘recluse’ after a fall at work has been left without a penny’s compensation after Facebook posts showed him playing football with a dog and stepping into a nightclub scrap. Leroy Baker, 51, from Erith, Kent, sued for over £150,000 saying multiple fractures suffered in a 30-foot fall … Read more
House prices may fall by as much as 20% in the worst case scenario for a virus-hit property market, warn analysts The stock market is already pricing in a 12% fall in house prices, say analysts That would knock £28,000 off the average £234,700 selling price A fall of 20 per cent would knock £46,900 … Read more
Between them, they have racked up nearly 130 years working in the City, managing investment funds worth billions of pounds on behalf of investors – through thick and thin. Five hugely experienced fund managers who passionately believe that stock markets reward long-term investors, however painful the present may be. We asked them for their views … Read more
Coronavirus can live in patients for up to FIVE WEEKS after they first fall ill – more than twice as long as the recommended 14-day isolation period Researchers collected respiratory samples from patients sickened in Wuhan – the epicenter of the outbreak They found the virus could live for up to 37 days in patients’ … Read more