Revealed: Britons’ top 20 most-searched-for holiday prices for end-of-the-year getaways – and it’s Benidorm that’s No1, followed by the Maldives, Las Vegas and Tenerife A study looked at package holiday price searches this month – from April 1 to 28 In a top 20 package holiday search ranking, long-haul destinations dominate Researchers say that it’s … Read more
Smart phone owners will be aware that upgrading to the latest model has become a pricier business as the years pass, with costs for the top spec devices often exceeding £1,000. However, in a sign that customers might be getting tired of splashing their cash on expensive gadgets, smart phone front runners, Apple and Samsung, … Read more
Katie Price’s ex Kris Boyson ‘SELLS the £39,000 engagement ring he bought her’… as hunk moves on with Bianca Gascoigne By Eve Buckland For Mailonline Published: 23:39 BST, 28 April 2020 | Updated: 23:39 BST, 28 April 2020 Katie Price’s fiancé Kris Boyson is reportedly selling the £39,000 engagement ring he bought for her. Former glamour … Read more
Earlier this week I took a trip down memory lane to This is Money as it was a decade ago. Prompted by a conversation in the office, I fired up the Wayback Machine – which lets you go hunting for archived web pages – and hopped back to This is Money circa late July 2009. … Read more
On Monday evening, the value of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil, or Texas Light Sweet, declined to an unprecedented MINUS $40.32. It was the blackest of days for black gold. Since the wildcat Colonel Edwin Drake successfully managed to drill oil out of the ground in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859, thereby creating … Read more
What happens after you stop the property market? In an ironic twist for some house price watchers, who regularly deride its index as meaningless due to being based on asking prices, this week Rightmove declared its latest statistics on values, property coming to market and sales agreed were ‘not meaningful’. The pause button was pressed … Read more
A hard man strides through a harsh landscape, his face caked in sweat, his calloused hands raw under his driller’s gloves. Behind him, outlined against the desert sky, is an oil derrick, the ungainly steel contraption into which he’s sunk his fortune and his dreams. It’s been a huge risk — he will either end … Read more
Britain’s housebuilders’ shares could prove a solid investment if property prices have a ‘soft landing’ and don’t drop more than 10 per cent this year, analysts have claimed. The housing market has ground to a halt in recent weeks since the UK went into lockdown. Most building sites have shut down, estate agents are closed, … Read more
Motorists are not benefiting from the oil price crash because petrol suppliers are ‘dishonestly holding back’ from passing on savings at the pumps, campaigners said today. FairFuelUK founder Howard Cox said average prices of a litre of unleaded and diesel should be 98p and 106p respectively. But they are instead 110.05p and 115.13p, according to the RAC Fuel … Read more
The cost of petrol and diesel in Britain are at ‘rip-off levels’ – even before the crash in the price of oil that has taken place this week, a campaigner claims. Howard Cox, founder of FairFuelUK, said average prices of a litre of unleaded and diesel should be 98p and 106p respectively, but are around … Read more