I thought the cash element had gone down to £1000 this coming year. Someone on here reckons it is still £3000.
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Yep - it's still £3000 for a mini cash ISA, £7000 for a maxi. ISA'a will remain unchanged until 2010 - after that, who knows??
512471
you probably want short term borrowing.\n\nMoney shop will cash cheques for 1 month and charge about 6%\nup to £500 at a time.\n\nProvident will lend money but charge the earth.
535624
An alternative is to keep all your money in jars under your floorboards, which would be destroyed in the event of fire.  £10 a month is not much to safeguard your cashola.  That said, banks make horrendous profits already for the investment of your hard earned money, give you less interest for credits than they take for debits, and charge extortionate rates for late payments and the like, so I don't see how they can justify the charge for everyone.\n\nI already pay £15 a month for mine, but thats a platinum account with its own benefits, which added up are worth more like £100 a month, so I can't complain.  In proportion, to pay £10 just for the pleasure of a basic account is quite disgusting.  Only way to avoid it (like £1.50 charges to take out your money) is just not to use a bank.
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No not really.  A few years ago they raised the stamp duty threshold from £30,000 to £60,000 claiming it was to help first time buyers but where can you get a house under £60,000?\n\nI've not heard of them releasing £12 million but with a million first time buyers entering the market each year that's really going to go a long way!  It could provide 2 or 3 bottles of wine for each buyer for them to drown their sorrows when they realise there's no way they can afford a house.\n\nWhat the government are planning on doing is spending billions of pounds of tax-payers money to build houses in areas that don't really need them at the expense of areas that do need them.  For example, where I am in Leeds the city is rapidly expanding due to an economic boom (apparently) with over a 50% population increase between the last two censuses.  At this rate Leeds will be the UK's 2nd city by the time of the next census.  As far as I'm aware there hasn't been a single government incentive anywhere near Leeds but they're insisting on pumping billions into London and the surrounding area which has a declining population.  From my point of view it's been very good as I bought the house I'm now in back in 1997 since when it's increased in value by 600% and my monthly mortgage repayment is equal to two days pay.\n\nRaising interest rates by any significant amount will have a disasteous effect as many people have stretched themselves to the limit in order to buy a house.  A lot of lenders have acted very irresponsibly by knowlingly lending to people that can't really afford the repayments.  A 1% rise in interest rates will add more than £100 a month onto the average mortgage payment.  Many people wouldn't be able to afford this and we'd see huge numbers of repossessions and people forced into nagative equity situations just like we did in the early 90's.\n\nWhat the government is proposing to do is to provide low cost housing for key workers such as teachers, nurses and police officers.  This doesn't do much to help people in other professions and amounts to little more than a bribe to draw people into professions where government policies have created a working environment that's so bad there's a chronic shortage of people to fill vacancies.  We're already having to recruit large numbers of teaching and medical staff from overseas and when you look at the state of schools and the health service is it any wonder?  I dare say it won't be long before we're draining the resources of other countries in order to staff the police force.\n\nUltimately house prices are determined by demand and in many ways a false demand is being created by the government's refusal to renovate the one million or so delapidated and derelict poperties.  These could be renovated at far less cost then building new homes and would provide affordable accommodation in many areas of the country where there is a shortage of decent housing.\n\nAnother problem lies with the banks and financial institutions themsleves.  Their primary concern is to look after their share-holders interests which means making as much money as possible and so they're keen to maintain high house prices and to lend the maximum possible amounts.  As you're undoubtedly aware these institutions have a powerful role in government policies.\n\nAt the end of the day house prices and interest rates are determined by market forces and more than anything, market forces are determined by big business.
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I'd suggest speaking to a stockbroker about costs etc, and the returns would depend on the performance of the company.  I think they're about £4 a share just now, and they performed very well last year.  I've thought about it too because Tesco seem to be taking over the world just now...!
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just like that overpriced fuc**ng tent in greenwich that less than 1% of the UK population seen (at commercial theme-park prices) before it shut down.\n\nI think we're due a tax refud?????????????????
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I looked into buying the new dinar.  I found that prices were greatly inflated.  Will it rise to $3.30?  How long do you want to wait?\n\nI tend to not invest in scams, but your mileage may vary.\n\nGood Luck
46478
Try checking around on stock market message boards.  They are more helpful and wont as for money.
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http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/cp?s=%5EFTSE
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I had to do a quick currency conversion being in the UK.  $50 = about £28, and for just under that I bought my dad a really simple play-only DVD player and a DVD film, and gave him some of our old comedies to watch.  He's 86 and not 'technologically-enabled', shall we say, so it had to be simple.\n\nIf it's getting to the stage of 'what do you get the man who has everything', the answer is 'nothing'. But you ~can~ buy him an experience - take him for a day out and a picnic, which won't cost you an arm and a leg, and I do like the 'gift deeds cheques' idea where you can give your dad a 'chequebook' with each of the cheques telling him what you'll do for him when he gives you the cheque to be 'cashed'. Clean the car, mow the lawn, mend his shirt, lift that bale, tote that barge....
565654
However, as above this is correct, but paying a creditor as little as £1 shows a willingness to pay and goes in your favour, always try to talk to them, get them to stop interest and work out a repayment plan.
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$12.38 today, but keep an eye on the rate\nhttp://uk.finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/convert?amt=7&from=GBP&to=USD
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try here: http://www.moneysupermarket.com/currentaccounts/\n\ntick on the Student & Young Person Accounts and see what it comes up with
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It seems like a nasty trend beginning to start. I hope they get this figured out before next season.  The holdup is money. Always the holdup. Greedy people!!!!
529113
My strong advice - LEAVE IT WHERE IT IS! At first glance your cash might look to be doing nothing. But all the time it's quietly working away, gaining interest for you, the total growing a bit bigger all the time. And the bonus is, IT'S TAX FREE! That means a lot in itself, as the government are usually more interested in increasing taxes! Take advantage of their generous offer!\n\nBeing 'bored with it' is, don't you think, the way a young teenager would regard it? Be a responsible adult, don't risk your capital until you have sh** loads of cash to play around with! Just forget it's there. I have ISAs and I add another at the beginning of every tax year. Remember the old saying about 'slowly, slowly catchee monkey'!
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What these previous answers suggest may be correct.Scotland is part ofthe UK,the currency is the british pound.The UK is not a member of the euro community So if it's the pound symbol which is more logical Then 17K would be even more money.The pound symbol is like a written L with a stroke through middleThis is much more likely as I cannot imagine scottish money being shown as other than the british pound.
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The bid is for 18.6 bn Euros. Thats 12.6 bn pounds.