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.
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. 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.
PARIS, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said the European Central Bank's lending rate cut this week wasn't good enough.
LONDON, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Half of Britain's banks failed to lower interest rates on adjustable rate mortgages after the Bank of England cut its rate Oct. 8, a research group said.
BEIJING, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- China's central bank trimmed lending and deposit rates 0.27 percentage points Wednesday in an effort to put vitality into the country's slowing economy.
OSLO, Norway, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- Norway's central bank, Norges Bank, knocked a half point off its key lending rate Wednesday, dropping the rate down to 4.75 percent.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. markets closed mixed Wednesday after a surge provided by a U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate cut collapsed in the final hour or trading.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve cut its target rate for federal funds to 1 percent Wednesday, jumping past the possibility of a less dramatic reduction.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Authorities at central banks in Europe and the United States have indicated that lending rate cuts to support the battered global economy may be coming soon.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A majority of economists surveyed last week indicated they expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to cut lending rates at this week's policy meeting.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate U.S. mortgages eased slightly in the week ending Oct. 23, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. said Thursday.
