New Sipp dealing account has no annual management fee

Scottish Power has launched a new energy plan that allows customers to fix their bills

Lowest five-year fix in UK history

First-time buyers receive £600 cashback if they save for 10 out of 12 months before taking out a Halifax mortgage

Corporate bond links income and capital to inflation

Read the small print on ‘free’ offer

Timely relaunch allows savers to keep pace with the rising cost of living

3.19 per cent deal comes with a fee of £1,495

Companies running defined benefit pension schemes ask regulator to extend payment holidays

James Max, the FT columnist, takes questions from readers about the misery of household chores

Covert and overt ways to interest children in learning about money

Forbearance and federal support programmes disguise how badly Americans have been hit

Key markets simmering during the thin trading sessions around year-end

UK-based education company is still more value trap than takeover candidate

Pound dips following UK chancellor’s hard Brexit remarks

Outbreak ripples across US, European and Asian equity markets

Lansdowne, Odey and Wadhwani among those betting on a revival of UK equities

The holes in the investment case were there, but not many were looking

Spanish and Italian bans on short selling follow US Federal Reserve’s liquidity injection

Price in local currencies of commodities such as copper and coffee has surged

From coffee to copper, exporters enjoy higher profits

The fintech company aims to disrupt other Latin American markets with its smartphone-based services

Finding a good credit card deal when you’re older is more difficult

Puny interest rates have dented the tax sheltering properties of cash Isas for most 

Take advantage of tax allowances available despite the turmoil

Lockdown presents a golden educational opportunity, particularly if you work in investment

Italy to lay out strategy this week on its plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions. Global stocks under pressure as oil tumbles again. England and Wales record 75 per cent more weekly overall deaths than normal.

Number of global cases of Covid-19 nears 2.5m, international oil prices tumble to lowest levels since the 1990s, Heineken hit as pandemic cuts into beer drinking globally.

The number of US deaths attributed to Covid-19 surpassed 45,000 on Friday, while the rate of new cases remained flat

British fatalities rise by 813 with almost 150,000 infected; Spain prepares to ease restrictions slightly as daily deaths remain below 400

The worldwide Covid-19 death toll rose by 6,365 on Tuesday, pushing the total through 200,000

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

Spain allows outside exercise for the first time in weeks while Russia’s daily case count rises by a fifth

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Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter

Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster

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Concern over use of chemicals drives research into alternatives

New York company wins bidding against Kerry for nutrition and biosciences unit

US flavouring group seeks first-mover advantage with purchase of nutrition venture

Move boosts chemicals group’s growing sports investment portfolio

While scientists disagree about their use, donning a mask can have an important social impact

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Corporate accountants could have a significant impact on green issues

It will be hard to help worthy US companies without also aiding private equity

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WhatsApp, which began testing its mobile payments feature in India two years ago, could offer at least one more financial service to people in its biggest market. In a filing with the local regulator in India, the Facebook -owned messaging platform has listed credit as one of the areas it will pursue in the country. […]