Alistair Darling to call for ‘mortgage holidays’ (Daily Telegraph)
Indebted homeowners could get “mortgage holidays” and other deals to prevent or offset the pain of repossession, under government plans due to be discussed this week.
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PC Makers Enter Match for Market Share PC makers will largely offset the price decline by selling more computers, resulting in revenues for the overall industry to increase by 0.5 percent this year and decline by 0.4
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Stock Market Waiting for Fed Message Freeze, hike or cut. Investors aren't losing sleep over any of the moves the Federal Reserve might make when the central bank's policymakers meet Wednesday.read more...