Author Archives: Poppy
All three credit reference agencies in the UK have now conformed with a Labour government initiative to make statutory credit reports available to consumers online. Previously this industry standard credit report was only available in a paper format for a nominal £2 fee often taking upto a week or more to arrive by post. In [...]
For many in these times of recession and global economic debt, both national and personal, crisis any small help to ease the burden is welcome. Earlier in the year the new credit card joint industry agreement was drawn up and comes into effect in January 2011. In a move to hold up their brand ambition [...]
With mortgage rates at a 50 year low figures indicate that Mortgage refinance business made up 77% of last weeks mortgage business up 3% from the previous week. A lack of invester confidence saw money moved into Treasury Bonds causing their yeilds to fall and with it interest rates. The lack of invester confidence is [...]
In a few days time on 1st July the US Treasury’s next directive under their HAMP (Home Affordable Modification Program) program will come into effect and is aimed at helping unemployed people stop foreclosure. The Home Affordable Unemployment Program (UP) announced in March will help those who have found themselves unemployed re negotiate or even [...]
In march 2009 the Obama administration introduced Mortgage Loan Modification in an effort to reduce the number of foreclosures in the US. Since then more than 250,000 homes have been saved from foreclosure under the Mortgage loan modification scheme. Figures from the Treasury say that an increased number of people fell out of the trial [...]
Remortgage levels in the UK still remain under pressure whilst Bank of England interest rates remain low. The low rates are helping decrease the incidence of arrears but remove the incentive to remortgage because property values are also held lower. Figures from the council of mortgage lenders show that remortgage business is down 5% month [...]
Work From Home has for the last decade been the goal of a large percentage of the population. So as in any market place many people have been selling work from home systems and methods. In truth tho the only people who have “made it” are the people selling these systems and methods, many of [...]
As more and more people across the world turn to alternative’s to fossil fuel for their energy needs so the demand for solar power componants increases. Many industry leading companies that supply the solar modules for solar power systems are reporting that they can not keep up with demand. Currently the biggest demand is in [...]
Today Wednesday 2 June Ford announced that they will discontinue the Mercury Brand in the fourth quarter. This is due to a planned expantion of the Lincoln brand and lineup with 7 new fresh offerings planned over the next 4 years. The Mercury Brand came to life in 1938 as an intermediate alternative to the [...]
This weekend saw the launch of Apple’s iPads in 9 International Markets around the world including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Eagar fans mobbed Apple’s international stores around the globe reminiscent of New Year Sales crushes. The iPad was launched in the US on April 3 and sold [...]