UK Mortgages rates and deals

The recovery in house building appears to have halted as an industry survey, which measures the number of people reserving new homes to buy, dropped to its lowest level on record

The US shed 54,000 jobs in August as the government dismissed more temporary census workers, but a rise in private sector employment offered hope that the economy could fend off a second recession

Service sector activity grew at the weakest pace in 16 months in August, heightening fears that the economy is beginning to stall

Russia announced a 12-month extension of its grain export ban, raising fears about a return to the food shortages and riots of 2007-08 which spread through developing countries dependent on imports

Hewlett-Packard appeared to have won the bidding battle for data storage technology company 3Par after Dell said on Thursday it would not raise its offer and was ending talks

UK house prices fell in August for the second month in a row, marking the first back-to-back house price declines since February 2009, according to a closely watched index

The former chancellor admitted that Britain’s levy on bonuses had failed to change banking behaviour over pay, as ‘imaginative’ financiers devised ways to avoid it