Reuters: Personal FinanceReuters: Personal FinanceMortgage approvals dive to record low- June 24, 2008 LONDON (Reuters) - New home loan approvals fell at their sharpest annual pace in at least a decade to hit a record low in May, figures shows, raising fears the housing slowdown is about to escalate into a crash.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... Custom-made price indexes attract hard-hit Europeans- June 24, 2008 ROME (Reuters) - Euro zone inflation is at a record high and many struggling citizens suspect prices are rising even faster than official data suggests, sparking increasing interest in alternative price indexes that claim to tell the real story.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... Confusion is king on next interest rate move- June 23, 2008 LONDON (Reuters) - If Bank of England Governor Mervyn King doesn't really know where interest rates will have to go, how can anyone elsehttp://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... House price growth cools- June 23, 2008 LONDON (Reuters) - Asking prices for homes in England and Wales stood 0.1 percent higher on a year ago in June, with the rate of annual price growth cooling from 2.2 percent in May, a survey shows.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... EU to tear down cross-border Web shopping barriers- June 20, 2008 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's consumer chief will propose new rules to make it easier and safer for the bloc's 490 million consumers to shop online in any corner of the 27-nation EU.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... Government mulls plan to buy new homes- June 19, 2008 LONDON (Reuters) - The government is set to consider a plan to free up 1 billion pounds of public money to buy new homes as it looks to stem a plunge in sales which has thrown the housebuilding industry into crisis.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... MPs call for tighter rules for insurers' surplus- June 19, 2008 LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Services Authority has failed to develop clear principles to regulate the uses of surplus assets held in insurers' with-profits funds and is not protecting policyholder interests, MPs said on Thursday.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... EU plans to make changing bank accounts free- June 18, 2008 BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Customers will be able to switch their account to another bank for free and with minimum fuss under draft European Union rules aimed at boosting competition in the sector, a document showed on Wednesday.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... "Falling knife" stocks: folly or fortune- June 18, 2008 LONDON (Reuters) - Nervous investors might be shying away from equities amid market volatility, but some are seeking to profit from plummeting prices.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... Consumers given credit without income checks- June 18, 2008 LONDON (Reuters) - Almost five million people have been granted credit cards in the past year without having to prove their income, according to research.http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=personalFinanceNews&storyid=2008... |