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Has the positive trend continued? House price latest from Nationwide.

30 Apr 2009 [1 Comment | 87 views]

As you are no doubt aware, there have been hints of good news on the UK housing market of late. Recent data has suggested mortgage approvals have picked up, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has observed an improvement in enquiries at estate agents, and Hometrack reported the lowest fall in its monthly index in ten months in March. But the big one came from Nationwide. It recorded a 0.9 per cent rise in house prices in March. This morning, all eyes turned back to Britain’s biggest building society. For this morning, its April index was revealed. What did it say? Would prices continue to rise? Would we see a sharp fall cancelling out the previous month’s improvement? Or maybe the finding would be somewhere in the middle? According to the Nationwide, house prices
Hint of early morning light shines from Japan to High Street

30 Apr 2009 [0 Comments | 55 views]

It was a funny day yesterday. It was a day when good news vied with bad to dominate the economic climate. This article focuses on the latest reasons for hope to have emerged yesterday. In the next two articles below the focus is on the worrying data. Let’s begin with the good. Some really encouraging signs came out of Japan. It really does seem possible that after suffering an especially poor previous two quarters, the economy of the Rising Sun is close to recovery. There was also a hint of cheer to come out of the Eurozone. And finally, back home, a report from KPMG suggested that a light has appeared at the end of the gloomy High Street tunnel.
But US sees recession deepen

30 Apr 2009 [0 Comments | 61 views]

The US economy contracted by a stunning annualized rate of 6.1 per cent in Q1.
Wage inflation goes negative in UK

30 Apr 2009 [0 Comments | 97 views]

Meanwhile In the UK, it seems average wages saw their biggest weekly fall in 60 years.
Chrysler on the brink; Bank of America boss steps back from brink

30 Apr 2009 [0 Comments | 91 views]

It’s been all go in the US corporate sector. It seems Chrysler could be hours away from bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the fireworks went off at the Bank of America yesterday. But was the bank’s embattled chairman and chief executive able to avoid the rocket?
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