There are around 6.4m current accounts containing a balance of £10,000 or more earning no interest.

There can be consequences when the amount a country spends abroad is wildly different from what it receives from the outside world The current account balance seems to be an abstruse economic concept.

Use account balance and total interest paid to find the interest rate. Divide the interest paid by the account balance to calculate the rate. Multiply the result by 100 to express the interest rate as ...