LONDON, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Banks overcharging borrowers on mortgages should cut back the rates immediately, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.
LONDON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Central banks in Britain and Sweden cut their key interest rates to 2 percent Thursday to provide liquidity to financial markets.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate U.S. mortgages fell dramatically during the week, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Thursday.
LONDON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- European financial markets were braced for large interest rate cuts across the continent in the wake of more bad economic news.
TOKYO, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The Bank of Japan said Tuesday it would initiate a series of steps to pump $32 billion into the economy.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Monday that further reductions in the current lending rate are possible.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate U.S. mortgages fell for the fourth straight week, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The volume of applications for U.S. mortgages increased last week, rising by a seasonally adjusted 1.5 percent, an industry group said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate U.S. mortgages fell for the third consecutive week, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The volume of applications for U.S. mortgages decreased last week, falling by a seasonally adjusted 6.2 percent, an industry group said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate U.S. mortgages declined slightly in the last week, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Thursday.
LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- British bankers had to be strong-armed by Chancellor Alistair Darling into passing along a Bank of England interest rate cut to consumers, sources say.
LONDON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- British banks began falling in line Friday to pass on a portion of the Bank of England's interest rate cut to their customers.
PARIS, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said the European Central Bank's lending rate cut this week wasn't good enough.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The volume of applications for U.S. mortgages declined last week, falling by a seasonally adjusted 20.3 percent, an industry group said.
