You can still get a 1.5% savings rate despite the Marcus cut, but there’s an ill wind blowing for savers, says SIMON LAMBERT By Simon Lambert for Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 06:00 BST, 5 September 2019 | Updated: 08:48 BST, 5 September 2019 Whether a 1.5 per cent savings rate can fall under the banner of all … Read more
Rishi Sunak will set out next week how he intends to ‘wind down’ the government’s coronavirus furlough scheme amid fears within Whitehall that the nation is becoming ‘addicted’ to state help. The Chancellor is widely expected to start to reduce the scale of the scheme from July after it emerged it has a current monthly … Read more
Houston pledges to get 100 percent of its energy from renewable solar power, and estimates the change will save more than $65million over seven years Houston will partner with NRG Energy to get all of its energy from solar The plan will begin in July and last for five years, with two yearly extensions Houston … Read more
President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended the decision to disband his coronavirus task force despite 70,000 Americans dying and infections rates still headed upward. ‘We can’t keep our country closed for the next five years. You could say there might be a recurrence and there might be,’ Trump said, when pressed about his decision to … Read more
Members of the White House coronavirus task force that has drawn worldwide attention amid the outbreak are being told it is ‘winding down’ even as the number of U.S. deaths and infections are projected to rise. The task force, which was put under the domain of Vice President Mike Pence only to have President Donald Trump take … Read more