Archive for October, 2007
Mortgage Borrowing Drops In September 2007
The Bank Of England has released it’s monthly Monetary & Financial Statistics (Bankstats) for October 2007. It makes fascinating reading, if you love numbers and statistics. For the rest of us it is probably more useful as a cure for insomnia. I have browsed through it to see what it reveals and perhaps one of [...]
TV Phone Scam – Premium Rate Phone Calls
ITV has charged callers to it’s phone-ins over £7,800,000 for calls that could not possibly have achieved what they had paid for. Some MP’s are questioning if this might be considered fraud. It is hard to see how it could be called anything else. Whether it was intended or not this was taking money under [...]
September Inflation Figures
It has been announced that the Consumer Prices Index inflation rate for September 2007 was 1.8% which is the same as the previous month.
This will be reassuring for anyone struggling with increased repayments on loans and mortgages following the steady rate rise increases we have had over the last year or so. It makes it [...]
