British Gas and ScottishPower both recently posted bumper annual profits. Although British Gas did cut prices this month, any hopes of an ensuing price war have been crushed. Only one other provider, First Utility, followed suit.
Experts believe that other firms are delaying price cuts until the expensive winter bills have been paid, which means [...]
The Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, has created many methods of filing to make it easier for taxpayers. A filer can choose to either mail the tax forms in or send them electronically, known as e-filing. Previously, a user could submit their tax return by telephone, utilizing Telefile, but this service has been discontinued as [...]
It had actually gone higher earlier in the day, reaching 6,950.6.
Buoyed by the technology boom, investors threw money at anything that came within the TMT - technology, media and telecoms - sector.
A new index, the FTSE techMARK was launched - in its first two weeks, it shot up [...]
Veteran stock picker Anthony Bolton warned that the equity market recovery looks likely to tail off in the first half of next year, urging investors to look for value among technology and healthcare stocks. The Fidelity International investment guru said: 'I think that the recovery phase is going [...]
According to Bloomberg, Bolton, speaking today in Seoul, South Korea, said: 'Despite the fact that markets have risen well off their lows, I think we're in a bull market I expect to go on.' He says the time for picking up bargain stocks is over and he anticipates that a pull back [...]
Up to 21m people and businesses who use the email service in the UK are potentially at risk of being defrauded after passwords were acquired illegally.
Around 10,000 passwords were obtained by hackers who created a fake website identical to Hotmail's to fool users into entering their email address and password. The scam is known [...]
The credit crunch has prompted banks to query transactions made abroad, with the consequence that legitimate payments and cash withdrawals are often declined and cards are withheld just when people need them most.
Travel writer Darren Cronian, 35, highlighted the problem of travellers being left penniless when he published a step-by-step guide on his Travel [...]
Apacs, the body responsible for payment processing, reported last week that it counted 14,369 different versions of phishing emails in the first quarter this year, up from 10,235 during the same period last year. With each email often sent to millions of recipients, the total sent annually runs 'comfortably into the tens of billions'.
In most [...]
But the sales tactics of Doubletake Studios - a firm that offers makeovers and studio quality photographs - are attracting strong criticism. And unhappy clients are joining forces to spread the word using the new technology that Doubletake has exploited so successfully.
In its early days, the company, based in Clerkenwell, central London, used conventional [...]
Obsessed with taking risks, determined to win at any cost and fuelled by testosterone, it is men - from 'respectable' bankers such as Sir Fred Goodwin to out-and-out fraudsters such as Bernie Madoff - who have landed us in this mess.
At least that is the argument increasingly put forward by many women - [...]
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