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Savers get a raw deal again as interest rates plummet! 2009-01-08 11:33:22 The Bank of England decision today to drop interest rates to 1½ % is the lowest interest rate in the Banks 314 year history, since it was established in 1694. The Banks of England’s reason for another drop in the base rate is their concern about inflation, the costs of imports as sterling is very [...] Read more:plummet
Why your credit report so important to you? 2009-01-07 06:25:17 What’s in your creditreport
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Credit references agencies - the largest in the UK is Experian - collate information about your financial background and past behaviour and format this data into your unique credit report.
You can see your credit report online now for free with CreditExpert, the credit monitoring service from Experian. To find out more click [...]
Government helps homeowners with new Mortgage Support | Mortgage News 2009-01-05 09:00:36 Latest forecast by the British Chamber of Commerce suggests that unemployment figures could rise to ten percent or around 3.1 million people during this year 2009. According to Credit Action personal debt in Britain today stands at almost £1.456 billion in November and the amount of debt has surged ahead of the country’s gross domestic [...] Read more:Government
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Benefits of using online comparison websites | Money Saving Expert 2009-01-04 15:29:18 During December 2008 we saw many well known high street businesses go into liquidation like Woolworths, Zavvi, MFI, Adams and Max Spielman. The liquidators only managed to find a buyer for Max Spielman. Woolworths which had dominated nearly ever high street in Britain since it opened its first shop in Liverpool 1909 had failed miserably [...] Read more:Benefits
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Mortgage gloom set to continue through 2009 2008-12-19 08:29:26 In the last two months I have seen nine clients all wishing to remortgage their homes. Some of my clients are at the end of a mortgage deal, others are looking to consolidate their expensive secured loans, unsecured loans and credit card debts into an affordable mortgage deal. Whilst some clients are looking for a [...] Read more:Mortgage
Homeowners 2-year Mortgage holiday debt nightmare? 2008-12-10 09:42:58 Gordon Brown could not wait to upstage the Queens’ Speech by releasing his governments’ latest initiative to the MPs in the House of Commons. He announced that mortgage borrowers who suffered from a drop in income would be able to defer their mortgage interest payments for up to two years.
This initiative was agreed by the [...] Read more:Homeowners
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Twelve Reasons to Invest in Gold today 2008-12-09 06:17:32 One of the oldest forms of money is the gold coin, its use can be traced as far back as 560BC when the Lydian King Croesus. The Chinese then used them in the 5th or 6th Century BC. Gold coins were the main form of currency through to the early 20th Century. By 1933 most [...] Read more:Reasons
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Homeowners are faced with a dysfunctional mortgage market 2008-12-04 15:06:31 The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) warned that the rationing of mortgages will deteriorate in 2009. The CML felt that homeowners with mortgages were being forced to cope with a dysfunctional mortgage market. Last year the net mortgage lending was £108billion and this year it is expected to be around £40billion, which is a 60% [...] Read more:Homeowners
The Gateway Savings Scheme 2008-12-03 06:35:41 Chancellor Alistair Darling announced ‘The SavingsGatewayScheme
which will be introduced in 2010. It is a state-funded saving scheme to help lower income families to start saving. It is part of the Governments long-term plan to support individual savings, it originally started with the launch of the Isas, Child Trust Funds.
This scheme is primarily [...]
The collapse of AIG and its impact on the Mortgage and Banking System 2008-12-01 05:57:21 Most people have no real understanding of the impact
of the American Insurance Group or AIG on the mortgage market and the global banking system and how close we came to Financial Armageddon. All of a sudden the dominoes started to fall and the Federal Reserve Bank of America started to pick and choose who [...] Read more:collapse
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