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Homebuyer loans hit 22-month high
The number of mortgages provided to homebuyers has reached its highest level for 22-months, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML)

House prices higher than year ago
House prices rise year-on-year for the first time since mid 2008 in November as sales continued to pick up, in a sign of the rapid recovery in the housing market

Investors urged to sell before next tax rise
Seven out of ten wealth advisers warn that capital gains tax will almost certainly be raised in a pre- or post-election Budget

Banks restrict lending to existing customers
More people are applying for loans but fewer are securing one, and those banks that are lending are only doing so to their existing customers

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Are Money Markets a Safe Harbor?

40 per cent tax to hit more middle-income taxpayers
Hundreds of thousands more taxpayers could be drawn into the 40 per cent income tax band over the next few years, accountants say, following a freeze on the higher-rate threshold and personal allowances in Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget report (PBR) this week

It’s not just bankers seeking a way round bonus tax
Fund managers, stockbrokers, and even some financial advisers will be hit by the new 50 per cent levy on “bankers’” bonuses

FSA probes Queen’s bankers over fund sales
LONDON (Reuters) - The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has launched a probe into sales of a bond fund by Royal Bank of Scotland’s private banking arm Coutts, which counts the Queen among its clients.

Inflation slows, BoE’s King defends overshoot
LONDON (Reuters) - Inflation slowed in July as expected but stayed far above the 2 percent target, forcing Bank of England Governor Mervyn King to explain the overshoot in an open letter to the government for the third time this year.

Are Money Market Funds Beneficial? | RoFx.Net

Investors take fright at ‘fiscal fiction’
Investors took fright at the perceived timidity of the government’s plans to balance the books with one of the biggest sell-offs of British gilts this year

Chancellor closes two inheritance tax loopholes
The inheritance tax (IHT) nil rate band is to be held at 325,000 in 2010, while the elimination of two loopholes in IHT rules may result in closer scrutiny of funds that are transferred into trusts used for IHT purposes.

Investors urged to sell before next tax rise
Seven out of ten wealth advisers warn that capital gains tax will almost certainly be raised in a pre- or post-election Budget

Battle looms over BA pensions
British Airways signalled the start of a protracted battle with the Pensions Regulator over the price tag on its retirement obligations, the outcome of which will be crucial to its tie-up with Spain’s Iberia

XE.com - MONEY MARKETS-Interbank rates dip, NY Fed chooses repo funds