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Will my mortgage get cheaper?For the vast majority of borrowers the answer is no: more than 7.1m (85%) of Britain’s 8.4m existing residential mortgages are on…

A reduction in interest rates by the Bank of England should rank as a joyful summer gift to borrowers weighed down by the high cost of…

Mitchell Labiak and Oliver SmithBusiness reporters, BBC NewsGetty ImagesThe UK jobs market has continued to weaken, making the prospect of an interest rate cut next month…

A divided Reserve Bank of Australia has held rates at 3.85%, in a surprise decision that denies further mortgage relief for millions of households.The split decision…

British pubs will close down at the rate of one a day this year, the industry’s trade body has warned, blaming high business taxes. At the…

President Trump is pictured at the Salute to America Celebration at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines on July 3. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images…

The chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, has blamed Donald Trump’s tariffs for preventing the immediate interest rate cuts the president has demanded.Trump has repeatedly…

Dawn LimbuBBC News, BristolBBCFinancial pressures have been blamed by some for Bristol’s falling birth rateAs the cost of living rises, more people are questioning whether they…

Tharon Green/CNETOver the last several years, record-high home prices and high mortgage rates have made homeownership unaffordable. As 30-year fixed mortgage rates remain flat near 7%, homebuyers have been finding…

The proportion of people surviving cancer in the UK has doubled since the 1970s amid a “golden age” of progress in diagnosis and treatment, a report…