You might earn better interest or get a better short-term deal from a bank, but the mistakes of the past show building societies are a better bet

It is one of the oldest tricks of the retail trade, but a study has found that the tactic of ending prices with '99p' still fools most shoppers

Administrators of laminate flooring chain Floors-2-Go were looking for a buyer for the firm today after it became a victim of the struggling housing market

The number of homes sold has halved in a year, and repossessions have increased three-fold in three years, according to new figures

The taxpayer could become responsible for billions of pounds of mortgages under radical proposals to restart the housing market

Vodafone today launched an attack on the City and pledged to buy £1bn worth of its own stock from the market following a heavy sell-off yesterday

The number of people renting in London has soared by almost a fifth in a year because of the paralysis in the property market.

Voter confidence in the economy has slumped lower than during 1979's winter of discontent, figures have shown

An undercover investigation into mortgage advisers has shown up shocking incompetence, with many failing to carry out proper checks on borrowers' ability to repay loans

Credit card providers have been hiking up their interest rates - especially for cash-strapped customers forced to withdraw money from ATMs

Northern Rock has hired Barclays vice chairman Gary Hoffman as its new chief exec, 10 months after it collapsed

17.00:The end of the credit crunch may still be some way off, but shares in the big banks and mortgage lenders were back in vogue today

Banks have described the property market as the slowest since the 1990s slump after mortgages for home purchase dived 67% year-on-year in June to a new record low

Rates look set to be held for some months to come as Bank of England minutes show that it was split three ways when rates were held this month

RBS's Fred Goodwin is probably quite pleased with calls for chief executive Andy Hornby to be fired, because it'll deflect attention away from him

There has been much gnashing of teeth over the last few days about Alistair Darling's willingness to ditch the fiscal rules in the face of the sharp slowdown in the economy

Pubs are enduring a torrid time, but London Pride maker fuller's smith & turner is offering investors rare good cheer

Royal Bank of Scotland has switched its attention to Commonwealth Bank of Australia in its search for a buyer for ABN Amro's investment banking and corporate finance business in Asia