By Faarea Masud & Lucy Hooker Business journalist 4 July 2023, 09:01 WIB Updated 52 minutes ago image source, Getty’s image The typical five-year fixed mortgage agreement now has an interest rate of just over 6%. It comes after the Bank of England raised interest rates to a 15-year high of 5% last month, as … Read more
More Spaniards have killed themselves in 2022 than in any other year since records began. But why? Just one month after Spain created its first suicide prevention helpline in May 2022, its workers handled nearly 15,000 calls, according to data from the Ministry of Health. The flood of calls shows the need for help in … Read more
The Bank of England raised interest rates in June from 4.5% to 5%. The significant increase of 0.50 percentage point was widely feared following the announcement by the Office for National Statistics that inflation remained at 8.7% in May – more than four times the government’s target. The June rate hike marked the 13th since … Read more