UK Mortgages rates and deals

Markets lose ground, erasing earlier gains as nervous investors remain concerned that the financial crisis will lead to a world recession.

UK house prices registered a 1.3% fall in September, according to the Halifax, with the average home costing £172,108.

French officials said Paris would not follow a British proposal to provide medium-term guarantees for interbank lending, casting fresh doubts on the ability of the G7 to present a common front

Turmoil in global financial markets is forcing pension fund trustees to put off pursuing a buyout for their schemes, leaving volatile pension risks on company balance sheets, industry executives say.

Insurer Aviva said its surplus capital rose in the third quarter despite slumping stock markets, and that it had reinforced its buffer against further equity market falls through increased hedging.

A look at how medical negligence cases have reached an unacceptable level due to pressures within the NHS and how this affected one patient inparticular

Iceland’s stock exchange suspended trading in all shares after Kaupthing Bank, the island’s largest lender, became the the third bank to be taken into government ownership this week