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.  Sometimes you just know that there’s...
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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...
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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...
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According to Investment news … During the point of maximummarket turmoil earlier this month, the Daily Mail reassured us all. TheUK property market is not like the US market: there has been no boom inbuilding and so there will be no UK property market crisis, itsuggested. And yet many, including the IMF, ABN Amro...
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By the end of last week HMV was being touted as the most shorted stock on the London Stock Market. The weekend news was full of gloom about the company. It seemed that HMV was, just like Superman, trapped and doomed – then we switch to the next week and suddenly – just like...
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The UK has always been attributed with grey boring weather even though the Brits are famous for making as much conversation about it as possible. Well over the last few years the Brits have had much to talk about, with the hottest and wettest months on record. Recent floods have delighted the British chattering...
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