The final days of June last year were a wonderful time for vicarious lovers of bling. On the 22nd, the third season of Julian Fellowes’s lavish TV series, The Gilded Age, dropped on HBO. Just days lat

Some good news for the US economy. The Federal deficit shrank for the fourth month in a row. Employment is picking up. The economy is booming. The Fox News team is comfortably convinced that when the

One of the least financially literate people I have ever met was a friend who as a teenager accumulated an unarranged overdraft of £50 on her newly opened bank account. Having been told she must recti

Snap election called: Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen (pictured) has announced a snap election for 24 March, saying the next four years are “decisive” for her country, says Paulin Kola on BBC

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Gold soars, funeral plan fraudsters charged, the best investment funds and the end of the £100 limit for contactless payments