Sue Whitbread
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Mortgage market alert: today’s softer UK inflation data stokes rate cut hopes
The ONS has published the latest UK Consumer Prices Index data, showing inflation easing to 3.6% in the year to October 2025,…
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UK inflation eases to 3.6%: what advisers need to know ahead of the Budget
The ONS has released the latest UK Consumer Prices Index data, showing inflation easing to 3.6% in the year to October 2025,…
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Cloudflare outage hits Chat GPT and other major companies’ operations
Today’s outage of infrastructure company Cloudflare’s global network has been impacting major companies’ operations, including Chat GPT, Spotify and X. Problems started…
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Rumoured budget income tax hikes look off the cards – now its stealth and a ‘smorgasbord’. Analysis from Quilter’s Shaun Moore
All week we’ve been hearing reports that Chancellor Rachel Reeves was set to hike income tax in the forthcoming budget, despite manifesto…
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Legal insight | What Kim Kardashian can teach professional advisers about divorce
This week is Good Divorce Week, which shines a spotlight on calmer, more constructive separations. In the following analysis for IFA Magazine,…
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Nationwide announces extension to Branch Promise to 2030 while other banks shut doors
Nationwide has announced that it will continue to keep every one of its 696 Nationwide and Virgin Money branches open until at…
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Lenders drive down the cost of low deposit mortgages finds Moneyfacts
Moneyfacts latest UK Mortgage Trends Treasury Report data reveals the average two-year fixed rates at 95% and 90% loan-to-value have fallen to…
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The importance of framing investment gains and losses in uncertain times | Marlborough’s Edward Kennedy shares his thinking
In volatile markets, perspective is everything. Drawing on the quirks of snooker, Edward Kennedy, Head of Marlborough’s Personal Portfolio Service, shares his…
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Fund manager insights| Diversification matters but, asks Aberdeen’s Gabriel Sacks, where does China fit in?
As geopolitical tensions between the US and China continue to ebb and flow, investors are once again assessing where the world’s second-largest…
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NS&I announces increased interest rates for its 1, 2, 3 and 5-year British Savings Bonds
NS&I has reported that new Issues of its 1, 2, 3 and 5-year British Savings Bonds (Guaranteed Growth, and Income) have gone…
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