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Buy-to-let keeps the housing blues at bay (Independent)
Whether or not to jump on board the buy-to-let bandwagon has been a big question for homeowners since the turn of the millennium. During the property boom, thousands of ordinary people morphed into property millionaires seemingly in the blink of an eye, while the less brave just talked about doing it a million times instead.
2008-04-26 04:31:20 -
It's winter for credit, so should you take a home-loan holiday? (Independent)
Going on holiday can be the perfect antidote if you're stressed with work worries, and if it's your bank account that's feeling the pressure, you can adopt the same principle and take time out with a "mortgage holiday". But while this sounds convenient, could suspending your mortgage payments temporarily just cause you bigger financial headaches in the future?
2008-04-26 04:32:00 -
Banning plastic bags (Straits Times)
Former British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott confessed that he was suffering from bulimia for over 20 years. He said that stress brought on the disorder in the 1980s, and the condition got worse after the Labour Party came to power in 1997. -- PHOTO: REUTERS FILE » Full Story
2008-04-26 03:05:07 -
A Market That Dashes Assumptions (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
A growing school of thought says that stock markets are acting rationally.
2008-04-26 04:39:33 -
Crooks where there's money (The New Zealand Herald)
"If you follow the money, you'll catch the crooks." Grant Liddell, director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), could be offering a job description for the organisation that has pursued white-collar criminals for 18 years.
2008-04-26 10:58:26 -
What does a financial sales representative actually do? (The Devens Commerce Journal)
What does a financial sales representative actually do?
2008-04-26 04:14:41 -
Wall Street, Run Amok (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
How did all of the mechanisms operated by the mind-bogglingly well-paid men and women of the Street go so wrong?.
2008-04-26 04:39:34 -
Lisa Bachelor investigates how the credit crunch effects the consumer (Guardian Unlimited)
Lisa Bachelor: For Maria Apollonia, senior customer services representative the term credit crunch has personal meaning beyond news headlines
2008-04-26 04:18:50 -
Where Was the Wise Man? (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Self-deprecating observation is vintage Robert E. Rubin, and it plays down his own substantial celebrity as a corporate and political wise man.
2008-04-26 04:39:34 -
Population explosion means oil at $100 a barrel is here for years (Daily Telegraph)
'A whole load of stuff could come apart here," warned Art Cashin last week on CNBC - the US business channel. "This oil thing - it's gettin' crazy".
2008-04-26 04:43:57 -
The Week Unzipped: Lenders raise cost of mortgages despite Bank's rate cut (The Scotsman: Business)
MORTGAGE rates are continuing to climb, with Cheltenham & Gloucester increasing interest rates on its loans for the second time this month by up to 0.75%. Elsewhere,
2008-04-26 04:33:54 -
Terra Industries Inc. Reports First Quarter Results (5º) (InfoBolsa)
24/04/2008 10:00:00 Business Wire US8809151033 *T -0- *T Terra Industries Inc.
2008-04-26 04:51:57 -
Taking readers back to the Occupation (The Japan Times)
From the autumn of 1946 to the spring of 1948 Mary Ruggieri was stationed in the Women's Army Corps as a member of the Allied Occupation of Japan. During this time she kept a journal, wrote many letters home, and took 4,000 photos. This activity was not demanded by her position. She had no... Read the full story.
2008-04-26 04:54:30 -
Pelosi in SF, addresses mortgage crisis (KGO-TV Bay Area)
Nancy Pelosi was in SF to promote legislation to battle the mortgage crisis.
2008-04-26 05:18:47 -
Lord 'Cashpoint' Levy on behind the scenes with Blair and his disillusionment (Evening Standard)
For more than a decade Lord Levy was Tony Blair's fundraiser, trusted confidant, tennis partner and Middle East envoy.
2008-04-26 05:07:23