The Co-operative movement has a long tradition of financial prudence and support for members. Parents and grandparents will remember saving the ‘Divi’ on food purchases or even opening a share account at the local Co-op. The Co-op has moved on with its own Co-operative Bank plc although it still retains much of what was good …
Definition of Compound Interest – Compound is defined in the Oxford concise dictionary as ‘….increase, complicate, …debt by partial payments…’ and whilst none of these definitions directly addresses the issue of compound interest you may begin to see where we are coming from. Compound Interest is the effect of ‘interest on interest’ and happens when …
How do problems in the Eurozone economy and a weak Euro affect the UK? A weaker Euro would help European goods and European travel appear more attractive. It would be good news for British holiday makers not wanting to risk transatlantic flight with the Icelandic volcano still smoldering. It would not be good news for …
Your ability to borrow money or borrow money on good terms is influenced by your credit score. This is an amalgam of your history with financial institutions, credit cards, store cards banks and other lenders. If you never borrow, never get into debt, always repay your credit cards 100% first time then you will not …
In 1945, 500,000 people worked as coal miners in the UK. Today that figure is a fraction. Maybe 1% of the half million are still employed as coal miners. By contrast Tesco now employs 500,000 people across Europe – making it the biggest employer in the EU. In 1945, the first supermarkets were yet to …
Greece is facing a very difficult situation with it’s bond market reduced to ‘junk bond status’ Interest rate on two year Greek bonds have an interest rate of 18%. See: European Fiscal Crisis Countries have experienced higher levels of government debt as a % of GDP. However, in the case of Greece, there appears a …
For manufacturing investment, the real interest rate is important for determining the viability of investment. Lower interest rates make it cheaper to borrow. Therefore lower interest rates tend to encourage business investment. High real interest rates discourage investment. How interest rates affect the efficiency of investment At lower interest rates, the marginal efficiency of capital …
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