Новости за 20.11.2015

Motorists will see car insurance costs accelerate by £30 next year as providers look to boost profits, a report warns. Hikes are expected to be the biggest since 2011.

Britain's top index edged higher and recorded its best weekly gain since early October, with Imperial Tobacco gaining on the back of bid rumours and Royal Mail rising for a second day after results.

Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool are currently recording their highest rate of annual house price growth since 2007.

The company's stock leapt 11.5p, or 79 per cent, to 26.0p as the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved the fish for production, sale and consumption.

Under-35s on average feel they will afford to stop working just before they turn 64, even though anyone born after 5 April 1978 will have to wait until their 68th birthday to claim the state pension.

The tax-free accounts were announced during George Osborne’s March Budget as a helping hand for first-time buyers. But with two weeks to go, where are they?

Government borrowing fell by £6.6billion from April to October this year compared with the same period in 2014, the public finance data shows - but October's number was much bigger than forecast.

More than 99,000 cars were clamped in the past 12 months, compared to over 62,000 in the same period of the previous year, following a government move to abolish tax discs.

Draghi told a conference in Frankfurt: 'If we decide that the current trajectory of our policy is not sufficient to achieve our objective, we will do what we must to raise inflation as quickly as possible.'

The Financial Times’ Alphaville website said that while BAT is said to be raising funds, it hasn’t made an approach and it’s possible none will be made, citing unnamed people close to the matter.

The lender has reduced its two-year fixed rate at 65 per cent loan-to-value from 2.39 per cent to 1.99 per cent with a £1,999 for landlords with a 35 per cent deposit.

The most common reason given by students for not wanting to set up a business after leaving university was a lack of experience. This was closely followed a fear of failure.

Crowdfunding is a democratic way for businesses to raise funds from individual investors, and raise their profile at the same time. The sector has been growing rapidly, so what's the next step?

The nation's biggest building society and second largest mortgage provider posted pretax profits for the six months to the end of September of £802million, up from £598million last year.

The change will come into force in the New Year, affecting 20,000 branch and call centre staff working across RBS and sister brand NatWest.

Perhaps surprisingly, about a third of new builds are flats - a lower proportion than in the run-up to the financial crash, when flats made up almost half of all new properties being built.

More than half of Britons made putting the kettle on their top priority when they had got through the door of their new home. Many were also greeted by surprises left behind by the previous owners.

There are some titles you just don't want — the UK's drink and drug-driving capital is one of them. Unfortunately for Crewe, it has taken the much unwanted accolade on the back of new research.

Griffith-Jones was in charge of Big Four firm KPMG when it audited HBOS before the bank's collapse in 2008. Two damning reports have now been published into the scandal.

Founder and CEO Ray Kelvin said its ‘unwavering focus on product quality and design, and our continued investment across the business’ had projected the company to new heights.

As well as running Ministry of Defence sites around the country, Increasingly technology-driven QinetiQ has also built a reputation for its work evaluating weapons and testing bombs.

When the financial system almost froze over in September 2008 the Bank of England had to step in with £24.5bn of cash to keep the ATMs loaded.

The San Francisco-based hedge fund and largest shareholder in the group raised its stake to 10.01 per cent, from 5.4 per cent, leaving it with £11.8bn of funds under its control.

The firm announced it would be paying a special dividend after selling its Gold and Silver Refining and Research Chemicals businesses for £380m earlier in the year.

Mark Newton-Jones said the return to profitability was the result of switching focus from selling cut-price products to offering higher quality, pricier items and better service.