All eyes at the bourses in Europe will be on Santander on Monday morning. With confidence in the banking sector at all time low it seems that the Spanish bank has slipped up badly by allowing its British owned Abbey to offer an insane portfolio of mortgage offerings.
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Archive for September, 2007
Will Abbey insanity takedown Santander?
Realters predict drop in home sales for the year
A trade group for real estate agents on Tuesday lowered its forecast of 2007 existing home sales for the seventh straight month, predicting a drop of 8.6 percent from last year.
The National Association of Realtors’ revised monthly prediction calls for U.S. existing home sales of 5.92 million in 2007, down from 6.48 million last...
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HMV leaps on news of Japan sale
With the announcement that HMV are selling their Japanese business to DSM Investments for $140 million stock in the company jumped 6.5 percent to 130 on Monday, after making steady gains through the previous week.
With all eyes on sales in its Waterstones division after the launch of Harry Potter, noting that over the atlantic...
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