Credit Crunch
House prices drop year-on-year for first time since 1996
House prices have fallen by 1 per cent during the past 12 months, the first year-on-year fall since 1996, figures showed today.
Inside Credit Crunch
Bovis Homes warns of profits fall
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Bovis Homes today warned that a 30-per-cent slide in reservations so far this year would leave half-year profits "significantly lower" than expected.
Lenders pledge to pass rate cuts on to mortgage-payers
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Homeowners have been promised a cut in interest rates when the inter-bank lending rate goes down after a Downing Street summit over the credit squeeze between the Chancellor and mortgage lenders.
Tough-talking Clinton vows to 'obliterate' Iran if it ever dares to attack US ally Israel
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
As Pennsylvania went to the polls yesterday, Hillary Clinton sought to burnish her reputation as a hawk by warning Iran that as president she was prepared to "obliterate" the country, should it launch a nuclear attack against Israel.
Chancellor will urge lenders to pass on rate cuts to borrowers
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Banks and building societies will be urged at a crisis meeting with the Chancellor today to pass on cuts in interest rates and give greater flexibility to customers in trouble with their mortgage repayments, after the biggest bank bail-out in a generation.
Darling hails banks rescue package
Monday, 21 April 2008
Chancellor Alistair Darling today welcomed the Bank of England's £50 billion rescue package for banks hit by the credit crunch.
Bank of England to unveil £50bn rescue package
Sunday, 20 April 2008
The Bank of England is set to unveil a rescue package of around £50bn to shore up the UK's fragile banking system, while Royal Bank of Scotland, the country's second-biggest bank, will ask shareholders for around £10bn of new money as it discloses even more writedowns from the sub-prime fiasco.
Property woes increase as slowdown bites
Saturday, 19 April 2008
Britain's increasingly beleaguered property market was hit by further setbacks yesterday with a double whammy of bad news from the residential and commercial real-estate sectors.
Negative equity 'will hit over one million homes'
Friday, 18 April 2008
More than one million householders – about 10 per cent of all mortgage-holders – could soon find themselves with homes worth less than the debt outstanding on them, according to the Government's former adviser on the housing market.
A day of political speed-dating as Brown sizes up the presidential candidates
Friday, 18 April 2008
There was an unmistakable twinge of envy among European diplomats yesterday as the three American presidential candidates and their secret service details made their way up Massachusetts Avenue for separate meetings with Gordon Brown at the residence of the British Ambassador, Sir Nigel Sheinwald.
UBS piles on misery with City job losses
Friday, 18 April 2008
UBS is set to cut 900 jobs in London by the end of June as the credit crunch begins to take its toll on the capital's once-booming financial services sector.
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