How market turmoil has affected mortgages, savings, holidays and fuel

How market turmoil has affected mortgages, savings, holidays and fuel

Global financial markets have been on a rollercoaster ride over the past few days, but now, with President Donald Trump having paused his "retaliatory" tariffs, the situation should stabilise.Here, we outline how the pound in your pocket has been affected.Stock markets, bonds and currencies moved sharply after Mr Trump put a 90-day pause on tariffs other than the base 10% tax slapped on almost all imports to the US. China still faces a levy of 125% on the goods it […]

10/04/2025

A week of chaos: How Trump sent markets on a rollercoaster ride

Are there signs the storm created by Donald Trump's tariffs could be calming?Global markets have rebounded following the US president's announcement of a 90-day pause on most tariffs, prompting hopes that a wider financial crisis could perhaps be avoided.The turnaround came less than 24 hours after steep new tariffs kicked in on most US trading partners and followed the most intense episode of financial market volatility since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.But volatile times could still be ahead, […]

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‘It’s overrated’: Top chef on expensive food item that isn’t worth it

Every Thursday our Money team interviews top chefs from around the UK, hearing about their cheap food hacks and views on the industry. Today we chat to Callum Graham, head chef at Bohemia, the only Michelin-starred restaurant in Jersey.People should cook vegetables in their own juices... For example, cook an asparagus in asparagus juice by keeping the stalks and placing them in a juicer. You will end up with super tasty asparagus.Read all the latest Money news hereWagyu beef is […]

10/04/2025

Profits up at UK’s most popular supermarket after job cuts – with further losses not ruled out

Profits at Tesco have increased by hundreds of millions in the year it announced 400 job losses and criticised the cost of additional taxes on employers.But the UK's most popular supermarket - with the biggest market share - expects profits to be lower next year amid what its chief executive described as an "intensification of competition" in the UK.Tesco's profits rose £299m from a year earlier to £3.128bn despite cutting 400 jobs in January.Tariffs latest: Beijing takes fight to TrumpDespite […]

10/04/2025

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10 Health Tips for 40 years old parents

Track appears in new box set… A new box set showcasing recordings Captain Beefheart made in the early Seventies is due for release. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 To 1972 features newly remastered versions of three albums that Beefheart and the Magic Band released during that period – Lick My Decals Off, Baby, The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot – as well as an extra disc of alternate versions. […]

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We Need To Elect Public Leaders, Willing To DIRECT Us, Properly!

John has joked with Q that he is yet to find any upsides to being a solo artist. Speaking in a Q25 video interview to mark his appearance on the cover of our special 25th anniversary issue, Q304, which is out now, the former Oasis leader. The Chief declares in the video interview you can watch above: “It’s more of a pain in the arse [being solo] to be honest. Everything is on you isn’t it? It’s a lot more […]

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Don’t Trust Any Public Official, Who Won’t Address Infrastructure: 4 Examples

At 9 p.m. on a Friday in February, Watson was standing outside of La Casa, a micro-church and community center — whose main chapel is the size of your parents' spacious living room — nestled next to a tienda in Washington, D.C.'s Mount Pleasant neighborhood. Inside, a hardcore punk band called Unknown Threat had just taken the stage. Of course, there was no actual stage. There was just the floor where the band set up at one end of the […]

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7 Signs You’re Not Ready For Online Business Success

As festival season rapidly rolls in, we’re constantly being reminded of the continuing lack of diversity on our lineups. With a recent study indicating 86 per cent of the lineups of 12 major music festivals last year including Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds and Creamfields were male, it seems that the ears at the top are still unwilling to break up the boys club that makes up our live music industry. Without music, life would be a mistake. That’s not to […]

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Stainless Steel Juicer – Making Juicing Fun And Easy

The whole point of digital music is the risk-free grazing" Cory Doctorow, Canadian journalist and co-editor and of the off-beat blog Boing Boing, is an activist in favor of liberalizing copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. Doctorow and others continue to write prolifically about the apocalyptic changes facing Intellectual Property in general and the music industry in […]

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