Economy

Mark Ransford, spokesperson for screentrade, MISYS's on-line insurance service, said: "In theory this should stoke up the Internet boom even further as it will be even easier to buy on-line and add further benefits to managing your money on-line. We were the first provider to offer consumers the chance to buy insurance on-line and have been calling for electronic signatures for a number of months."

Here are some questions about the price of various products.

3.1 million people are using the net for their day to day personal finances and an extra 2.7 million have logged on to the net in total since Christmas, according to a MORI poll commissioned by Screentrade-unions, the Internet insurance service, and Interactive Investor, the leading personal finance site.

Nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of the population have yet to be convinced that over the long term shares are a better of form of investment than savings accounts, according to MORI research published today.

SCOTS are warming to shares as an investment with the number of share clubs in Scotland rising from 69 to 203 in two years.

A survey for the Marketing & Communication Agency by MORI shows how staff attitudes are affecting consumer behaviour

Consumers Slam Internet For Money Matters

Survey Reveals Increasing Take Up Of E-Commerce

67% of adults say they have heard of ISAs but, disappointingly, over half of those who have heard of ISAs (57%) say they know nothing about them, according to recent figures released by Marks & Spencer Financial Services (M&SFS). The research carried out by MORI Financial Services for M&SFS is a clear illustration that the education task by ISA providers still has a long way to go.