UK Mortgages rates and deals

January 21, 2009

Geithner calls for aggressive intervention

Filed under: Bridging Finance, UK Mortgage Brokers — Cindy Smith @ 6:11 pm

Timothy Geithner warned that the government must intervene with “speed and force” to rescue the US from its economic downturn as Senators met to consider his nomination as Treasury secretary.

Did the feds foul B of A?

Filed under: General Business — Cindy Smith @ 12:11 pm

By pushing the big bank to complete its deal with Merrill, the bailout czars did serious damage to shareholders.

Why invest in this market anyway?

Filed under: General Business — Cindy Smith @ 12:11 pm

For anyone considering a dip back into the market, just click two quarters together and repeat: “There’s no place like cash, there’s no place like cash.”

Public finances worsen in December

Filed under: Bridging Finance, UK Mortgage Brokers — Cindy Smith @ 12:11 pm

UK public finances deteriorated in December, partly because the £20bn state recapitalisation of RBS swelled the government’s net cash requirement to £44.2bn, as the budget deficit totalled £11.4bn

Bury the Banks at Wounded Knee

Filed under: Mortgages — Denis Green @ 6:11 am

Smart, gracefully-written and elegiac piece by Frank Partnoy in the weekend Financial Times wherein he rightly points out that it’s long past time to bury most of the major U.S. banks. The bottom line is that, given declining assets and increasing liabilities, many – perhaps most – big banks are essentially …

Fund firms win £360 million mandate

Filed under: Bridging Finance — Phill Taylor @ 6:11 am

LONDON (Reuters) - The 3.7 billion pound Merseyside Pension Fund said on Monday it had hired fund firms M&G, Blackrock, Newton and TT International to manage assets totalling about 360 million pounds.

Me as the Conference’s President

Filed under: Bridging Finance — Denis Green @ 6:11 am

thewhiteshadow009 posted a photo:

Me as the Conference's President

Me sitting in the place of the president (yay XD) and holding the hammer of silence :P

Special thanks to:-

Abdulrahman Al-Homaid ( Alkoor |????| ) - For kindly using his camera to take this photo of me ( visit his profile at www.flickr.com/photos/alkoor/ )

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