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  • House loans grow despite grim economy

    January 16, 2012

    THE HOUSING market showed signs of life in November with sales and remortgages both rising, data from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) revealed yesterday. Growth is expected to continue in the months before March, after which first-time buyers will no longer benefit from stamp duty exemption. Overall lending for house purchase rose four per [...]

  • Crunch easing for euro banks

    January 11, 2012

    THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) has succeeded in kick-starting bank funding markets, prompting a rush to issue debt that has reached levels not seen since before the latest credit crunch took hold. Funding costs for banks on the continent have plunged to their lowest level since April on the back of a flood of new [...]

  • RBS hires Lazard for investment bank shake-up

    January 5, 2012

    Royal Bank of Scotland has hired investment bank Lazard to advise it on a scale-back of its investment banking arm, including options to sell parts of the business, a source with knowledge of the matter said. “It is part of the ongoing review that was launched in November, and it includes options to sell parts [...]

  • Halifax: Housing market will stay weak

    December 12, 2011

    WEAK economic growth and persistent high unemployment will hold down house prices through 2012, Halifax warned yesterday in its housing market outlook. Only record low interest rates will help stop the market falling further, the bank’s economists claimed, although mortgage funding pressures are expected to weaken this support. Prices will keep rising in London, according [...]

  • House prices fall again in weak market

    December 6, 2011

    HOUSE prices fell in November, reversing October’s gain as the market remained unpredictably choppy, Halifax announced yesterday. The bank’s monthly house price index showed a fall of 0.9 per cent in the month, taking the annual fall to one per cent and the quarterly decline to 0.6 per cent. The fall compares with a 1.2 [...]

  • Downgrade bombshell puts brakes on FTSE gains

    December 6, 2011

    The brakes were slammed on the recovery in European markets this morning after ratings agency Standard and Poor’s warned 15 Eurozone countries – including Germany – that they were teetering on the edge of a downgrade. Asian stocks and the euro fell after S&P piled pressure on a plan to solve the region’s debt crisis [...]

  • Central bank independence won’t last

    December 5, 2011

    SLOWLY but surely, the case for central bank independence is being undone. It may not look like it, with central bankers being afforded even greater powers than before the recession, but we are probably at the high watermark of their influence and autonomy. At some stage, as it becomes clear that monetary policy has turned [...]

  • Central bank independence won’t last

    December 4, 2011

    SLOWLY but surely, the case for central bank independence is being undone. It may not look like it, with central bankers being afforded even greater powers than before the recession, but we are probably at the high watermark of their influence and autonomy. At some stage, as it becomes clear that monetary policy has turned [...]

  • City A.M.’s at-a-glance guide to the key points of Osborne’s mini-Budget

    November 29, 2011

    UK ECONOMIC OUTLOOK • The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has slashed the growth forecasts it made in March. • Its central forecast for 2011 has been revised down to 0.9 per cent from the 1.7 per cent March prediction. It expects 0.7 per cent year-on-year GDP growth in 2012, instead of 2.5 per cent. [...]

  • S&P slaps downgrades on 15 major global banks

    November 29, 2011

    SOME OF the world’s biggest banks were hit with credit rating downgrades from ratings agency Standard & Poor’s yesterday after a sweeping overhaul of the criteria it uses to assess institutions’ financial strength. S&P downgraded 15 banks after reviewing the ratings of 37 major institutions. It dropped seven of the top US banks by one [...]

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