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Derbyshire Building Society NetSaver Issue 2

NetSaver easy access account pays 3.16 per cent on savings




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Santander Inflation Linked Savings Bond

Bond pays out 105 per cent on RPI




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HMRC launches coronavirus income support scheme for self-employed

Cash from successful claims could reach bank accounts by end of the month




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Debt relief for US consumers leaves investors flying blind

Forbearance and federal support programmes disguise how badly Americans have been hit




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UK savers give investment funds a boost after election

More than £1bn ploughed into equity vehicles after decisive Conservative victory




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Avast’s rotten week is a lesson in crisis management

Shares in security software maker dropped sharply after revelations of data harvesting




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Private investors in trading surge as coronavirus sparks market correction

As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback 




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Coronavirus boosts digital banking as Argentines lose fondness for cash

SoftBank-funded fintech challenger Ualá expands rapidly amid the pandemic




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City watchdog looks to shake up savings market

New rules require banks to stick with a single rate after introductory deals




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Why I won’t be taking up a savings challenge

Putting aside £100 a week is just a pipe dream — and what would it achieve anyway?




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Have Isas become too complex?

Advisers warn the widening landscape is confusing investors and preventing people from saving




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Savers warned not to forget the end of tax year

Take advantage of tax allowances available despite the turmoil




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Coronavirus crisis: your financial rights

How to navigate government help schemes, the benefits system, redundancy pay and help from banks




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Don’t let coronavirus derail your financial plans

Take steps to improve your relationship with money and the role it plays in your life




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Premium Bonds rate reprieve for savers

NS&I scraps planned cuts to prize fund rate 




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Latest National Savings & Investments rates

Current rates from the state-owned savings bank




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Latest savings rates

Up-to-date deals from banks and building societies




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Coronavirus: US fatalities slow but total tops 37,000 — as it happened

A live blog from FT.com

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Coronavirus: US death toll nears 40,000 — as it happened

Italy to lay out strategy this week on its plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions. Global stocks under pressure as oil tumbles again. England and Wales record 75 per cent more weekly overall deaths than normal.

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Coronavirus: US death toll tops 42,000 — as it happened

Number of global cases of Covid-19 nears 2.5m, international oil prices tumble to lowest levels since the 1990s, Heineken hit as pandemic cuts into beer drinking globally.

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Coronavirus: Congress passes $484bn interim stimulus package — as it happened

US job gains since financial crisis wiped out. Switzerland faces sharpest economic contraction since 1974. UK and eurozone business activity hit by historic collapse this month as lockdowns choked Europe’s biggest economies.

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Coronavirus: US business leaders call for co-ordinated approach — as it happened

The number of US deaths attributed to Covid-19 surpassed 45,000 on Friday, while the rate of new cases remained flat

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Coronavirus: US death toll approaches 50,000 — as it happened

British fatalities rise by 813 with almost 150,000 infected; Spain prepares to ease restrictions slightly as daily deaths remain below 400

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Coronavirus: Small business loan scheme capped for US banks — as it happened

In today’s news: UK warns it would be ‘irresponsible’ to discuss easing lockdown. Spain sets out plan to lift its own tough measures. Donald Trump signals a halt to his daily media briefings as US death toll accelerates.

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Coronavirus: Trump makes new push to expand US testing — as it happened

New daily cases of Covid-19 around the globe rose by the lowest amount in 12 days as 73,858 diagnoses were confirmed on Sunday, bringing the total to 2.93m

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Coronavirus: US tops 1m Covid-19 cases — as it happened

Deaths in England and Wales are highest on record in mid-April while cases in the US surpass 1m

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Coronavirus: Record daily increase takes US death toll above 55,000 — as it happened

The worldwide Covid-19 death toll rose by 6,365 on Tuesday, pushing the total through 200,000

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Coronavirus: US death toll rises by more than 2,000 for third straight day — as it happened

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

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Coronavirus: BofA says US consumer spending starting to rebound — as it happened

A live blog from FT.com

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Coronavirus: US death toll tops 60,000 — as it happened

Spain allows outside exercise for the first time in weeks while Russia’s daily case count rises by a fifth

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Coronavirus: US death toll approaches 62,000 — as it happened

The FT's live blog on the Covid-19 pandemic

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Coronavirus: AIG chief warns virus could be industry’s largest catastrophe loss — as it happened

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez says no other option remains but to maintain the state of alert

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Coronavirus: US deaths spike as fatalities spread outside NY — as it happened

Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

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Coronavirus: NY Fed economists find hardest-hit states received fewer PPP loans — as it happened

The US private sector shed a record 20m jobs in April as coronavirus lockdowns and the resulting closure of non-essential businesses led to historic joblessness

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Coronavirus: US death toll tops 70,000 as New York fatalities top 20,000 — as it happened

BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter

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Coronavirus: Pence aide tests positive for Covid-19 — as it happened

Germany's dominant export sector in record decline, South Korea may be forced to close bars and nightclubs after partygoer is found to have infected at least 14 people

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Coronavirus latest: Spain’s Sánchez urges caution as lockdown is eased

Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster

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IFF-DuPont deal creates $45bn flavourings giant

New York company wins bidding against Kerry for nutrition and biosciences unit




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BASF warns of ‘significant impact’ from coronavirus

German chemicals group blames Brexit and trade tensions for earnings fall




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How will coronavirus change the world? — Parlia launches to help you find out

“Is Greta Thunberg a hypocrite?” Google that phrase and you will get thousands of results. It just goes to show that, to a large extent, the “Q&A” model is broken on the internet. Where once Yahoo Answers and Quora were considered the bright young things of Web 2.0’s “Read/Write Web,” today there is only the […]




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Poynter Institute launches WhatsApp chatbot to debunk coronavirus-related hoaxes

You can now debunk thousands of coronavirus-related hoaxes with a few texts on WhatsApp . Poynter Institute, a non-profit organization that supports journalism, today launched a bot on the Facebook -owned service that will allow people across the globe to debunk over 4,000 hoaxes surrounding the pandemic such as whether the infectious disease originated in […]




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Facebook’s redesign goes live with simplified navigation and dark mode

After months of testing, Facebook’s redesign is finally official. Announced last year at F8, the more minimalist approach to its desktop design has been rolled out in waves. In March, the company added an option to try out the new version. Users could switch back and leave feedback for why they had done so. This […]




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The eurozone is too complacent about the coronavirus threat

Ideally governments would co-ordinate fiscal policy but there is no sense of urgency




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Tesla ekes out profit despite coronavirus disruptions

Shares soar in after-hours trading following better than expected figures




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Why the coronavirus crisis won’t mark a peak in oil demand

Transport demand will rebound while the pandemic will reboot the use of plastics




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S&P 500 resilience: weakened by coronavirus

A series of big bankruptcies is unlikely but debt workouts will slow economic recovery




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Tinder to add video dating next quarter, after slowing user growth due to coronavirus

Tinder will add a video dating feature in the second quarter of this year, parent company Match announced on Tuesday as part of its Q1 2020 earnings report. The company also detailed the coronavirus impact, which slowed Tinder user growth in the quarter, as social distancing requirements and government lockdowns went into effect. Match didn’t […]




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How can I protect my children’s savings from tax liabilities?

I am concerned about inheritance tax if my husband and I were to die prematurely




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Will we have to pay a 3% stamp duty surcharge on our new home?

I own three properties and want to buy another with my new partner




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Will Covid-19 repatriation leave us with a large tax bill?

We are returning to the UK from the US following the virus outbreak