Articles, tagged with "uk banks", page 5

Credit Crunch in the UK...

The Credit Crunch is affecting the UK in ever more diverse ways as time goes on. First there are the rising layers of debt which cannot be repaid. The government owes the banks, the banks owe the government, businesses owe the banks and the banks are call... Read >
Author: Robert Palmer

What should you expect from Gold in 2009?

The volatility in global markets amid the credit crunch makes it difficult to forecast how currencies are going to move. So what will 2009 bring for the gold price? There have been sharp fluctuations in the gold price and gold has seen daily swings widen.... Read >
Author: Neil Dennis

Borrowing declined despite Government Efforts

House prices tumbled by a further 2.2 per cent in December, after falls of 2.6 per cent in November and 2.4 per cent in October according to figures from Halifax. Market experts had predicted a 1.7 per cent drop in December. The forecast also suggested... Read >
Author: Mildred Parker

Personal Loan - Avail Online To Make Smart Choice of fulfilling your personal desires

Whilst the financial condition has witnessed a major blow, people in the UK are becoming more and more dependent on loans, in order to compensate their economical havoc. Loans in UK are available on various aspects. The various types of loans include pers... Read >
Author: gracy

Pound plunges closer to Euro parity

It was another relatively quiet week for stock markets last week as the Dow, S&P 500 and FTSE all finished relatively unchanged over the trading week. UK banks were under pressure yet again as the tide of bad news kept rising. Reports that half a million ... Read >
Author: cordieliea

Automaker Bailout Fails, Stock Market Short Lived Optimism Evaporates

After an opening surge on Monday, markets had a mixed time of it for the remainder of the week. President elect Barack Obama's announcement of a huge public works program helped virtually every market rally against the main trends of the last few weeks. E... Read >
Author: cordieliea

Property Market Update And The Consequences For Selling Property

Here we give an update on the UK property market and on what you need to consider if you want to sell in the current market. Firstly let's briefly look at what's happened to the property market. In the summer of 2007 property prices reached their peak... Read >
Author: Wheres My Property

The Credit Crunch And How It Affects You

The credit crunch is affecting people in multiple ways, and it is not only the borrowing that has become difficult. The major affect of the credit crunch has presented in the form of decreased lending with the banks not willing to give out money. Another ... Read >
Author: RicReev

How Safe is Your Money? - Your Guide to Protection

My goodness what a rollercoaster it has been recently! It seems that not a day goes by without more gloom. A bank goes bust or is rescued, an insurance company is swallowed up by another or is nationalised. It is in times like these that people quit... Read >
Author: Ray Prince

Debt problems: Keep a close eye on it.

Nobody likes talking about it but it is something many people are dealing with. Debt has become common practise during the 18 months of the credit crunch and many people have accrued a considerable amount of debt. People do not realise that debt can b... Read >
Author: Karl Bantleman

Banking Facts and Figures: What Happens Every Ten Minutes in the UK?

Ever wondered how busy the UK's banks really are when it comes to processing the number of transactions you make on your current and other bank accounts? There are over 60 million people in the UK, of which approximately 90% are estimated to have a ba... Read >
Author: Vicky Cochrane

Savings; dipped into

So you have accumulated a steady amount of savings through sheer hard work and extreme discipline and now you have been forced to dip into your life savings to foot the monthly food and energy bills? This is an unappealing fact the average household ma... Read >
Author: barryloughran@live.co.uk

Savings somewhere else

With another major bank set to become nationalised, savers are turning to our overseas neighbour to ensure their savings stay safe. The Irish government have backed all savings 100% which has lead to the Irish banks being swamped with calls to set new acc... Read >
Author: barryloughran@live.co.uk

Personal Banking: Easy Access is the Key

Whenever new technology makes a universal impact the business world soon finds a way of harnessing it to suit its own and also its customers' ends. That axiom is particularly true in banking which as an industry tends to be a keen ‘early adopter' when i... Read >
Author: Adam Singleton

Silver surfers prove to be keen online bankers

When it comes to embracing net technology silver surfers are leading the way, according to recent research from two leading online advertising and measurement companies. Those aged 55 and over are classified as silver surfers, referring to the prevale... Read >
Author: Daniel Collins

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