Posts Tagged with 'interest'

  • → I’ve nearly had a heart attack. I’ve just learnt that the Bank of England have slashed 1.5% off the UK interest rates bringing them down to 3% - the lowest since 1955. Crap for your savings, but brilliant if you’ve got a tracker mortgage like Claire and me. ( 0 )
17 Oct 2007

Crazy Loan Interest Rates

Filed under: Money at 15:31 GMT.   |  Tags:, , , . 0 Comments

A colleague was browsing for loans on a popular price comparison website and happened to spot the following two CRAZY deals (the full results):

Who in their right mind is going to pay over 60% APR, let alone nearly 200%, when the lowest available is just 6.3% ?!
I know it’s hard for some people to get [...]

18 Sep 2007

BBC Responsible for House Price Crash

Filed under: Money at 13:09 GMT.   |  Tags:, , , , , . 0 Comments

Ok, the title is a little bit off the mark and is more of a tenuous prediction than fact at the moment, but hear me out.
As you may have heard, Northern Rock is having a bit of a problem convincing its customers that it’s NOT going bust. This comes after the BBC reported that [...]

04 Aug 2005

Going Down.

Filed under: General at 15:18 GMT.   |  Tags:, , , . 0 Comments

Yippeee!!!! After a year at 4.75%, the Bank of England has lowered the base interest rate to 4.50%. Now we’ve just got to wait for the letter from our mortgage lender to say they’ve dropped their rate too.