Halifax to pay £500m to mortgage customers in compensation

The Halifax will make payments to 300,000 mortgage customers, up to a £500m total, after reaching a deal with the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
The bank, now part of nationalised Lloyds Banking Group, admitted confusing customers about its right to charge them more for their standard variable rate mortgages.

The Halifax raised the margin on some of [...]

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Solar subsidies to be protected in govt cutbacks

The government has pledged it will act if commercial operators rush to exploit a subsidy aimed at encouraging homeowners to generate their own solar electricity.
The feed-in tariff green energy scheme was launched last April.

It promised a typical household earnings of £800 a year and savings on their bills of £120.

Energy Minister Greg Barker said he [...]

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More affordable loans lift UK mortgage borrowing

The number of loans made for house purchases rose slightly in the UK in May as low interest rates continued, lenders have said.
About 42,000 home loans were granted in May, up 2% on the previous month and 15% higher than May 2009, the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said.

Mortgage interest payments accounted for the lowest [...]

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Interest rates kept at 0.5pc by Bank of England

Interest rates were kept at their record low of 0.5pc when the Bank of England announced its latest policy decision last week.

The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held the cost of borrowing at 0.5pc, and did not alter the £200 billion it has so far spent on quantitative easing- or printing money, to support [...]

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Loans rates announcements due soon

Despite the fact we are heading into the Bank of England’€™s rate decision tomorrow Sterling is holding up pretty well.

There is no doubt Sterling has a lot of in built bad news already in the price and a 0.5 % base rate cut is already priced in some may even argue that 1% is [...]

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The yen rallied on Friday as risk aversion returned to global markets following several sessions of relative calm.

An overnight drop in US equity markets was followed by falls in Asian stocks. But trade was light with few investors wishing to take fresh positions in the face of uncertainty about the timing of the next rate [...]

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