Aegon UK

Improvements in the performance of stock markets helped Aegon UK to increase its net income for the first half of the year.

BANCO SANTANDER is thought to digging deeper into its pockets in a bid to head off a damaging bidding war for Abbey National, says this morning's Daily Telegraph.

INTEREST RATES could soon rise further as the recovering economy and soaring oil prices push inflation higher over the next two years, according to comments from the Bank of England in this morning's Daily Telegraph .