UK mortgage approvals hit all-time low (Ireland Business World)
The UK mortgage market continued to deteriorate during June, with the number of loans approved for house purchases falling to a new record low, a leading banking group said.
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-23 09:49 UK June mortgage approvals slump to all-time low - BBA (Interactive Investor)
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The UK mortgage market continued to deteriorate during June, with the number of loans approved for house purchases falling to a new record low, a leading banking group said on Wednesday.
IMF Loans Linked To Higher Tuberculosis Death Rates (Medical News Today)
Unintended consequences of foreign aid often plague beneficent giving. A study published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine has found that loans to former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern European countries made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) between 1992 and 2002 were linked to a 16.6% rise in death rates from tuberculosis (TB).
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-24 08:00 Banco Popular H1 net rises 10.1 pct, bad loans up (Interactive Investor)
MADRID, July 24 (Reuters) - Banco Popular posted first-half net profit growth of 10.1 percent on Thursday, ahead of forecasts, but its exposure to the struggling Spanish property sector doubled is bad loan ratio from last year.
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-24 06:26 Air Berlin loans out 50 of its pilots to cut costs (Interactive Investor)
FRANKFURT (Thomson Financial) - Air Berlin Plc. is loaning out about 50 of its 1,436 pilots to rivals to cut personnel costs by about 4 million euros, a spokeswoman for the company said, confirming a report by Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.