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“the number of bankruptcy petitions being lodged by creditors has been fairly steady over the past five years, at about 20,000 a year.”
“In 2005 there were 37,000, but by last year they had risen to 63,000.”
“The number of these winding up petitions stood at 2,777, a 4% rise on the last three months of 2009.”
“The pound fell nearly two cents, or 1.2%, against the dollar at $1.4646, and by a cent against the euro.”
“The pound fell against the euro to 1.1650, and was also down against the Japanese yen, and a range of other foreign currencies.”
“The value of imports exceeded exports by £3.7bn ($5.5bn), up from £2.2bn gap recorded in February.”
“Exports crept up by just 1%, whereas imports rose by 5.2%.”
“Banks took control of 92,432 properties in April, up 1% from March, and a 45% rise from a year earlier, said RealtyTrac.”
“New repossession cases fell 9% from March and 2% from April 2009.”
“A total of 333,837 new repossession filings were made in April, one for every 387 homes in the US.”
“Taken together, those five states accounted for 52% of all new repossession actions in April.”
“Las Vegas, the biggest city in Nevada, was the worst affected large urban area, with one in every 60 homes getting a repossession notice.”
“The main US estate agency organisation, the National Association of Realtors, said on Wednesday that house prices rose in almost 60% of US cities in the first quarter of the year.”
“The number of homes repossessed in the UK fell by 7.5% in the first three months of 2010, according to lenders. Figures show that the number of homes repossessed dropped from 10,600 in the last three months of 2009 to 9,800 in the first qu…”
“It added that it could revise its forecast of 53,000 repossessions in 2010 in the summer, describing it as "pessimistic" if there are no further economic shocks.”
“The number of homes repossessed was at its lowest in two years, down 7.5% on the previous three months and 26% lower than the first three months of 2009.”
“The number of home loans in arrears equivalent to at least 2.5% of the outstanding mortgage balance stood at 186,300 in the first three months of the year.”
“This was down from 196,400 in the last quarter of 2009, and below the 206,800 of the first quarter of last year.”
“Some 629 households have been helped under the mortgage rescue scheme in England, separate figures released by the Department for Communities and Local Government show.”
“When it was launched under the previous Labour government in January 2009, ministers said that up to 6,000 households could be helped by the scheme.”
“Another 1,849 applications were ongoing by the end of March.”
“The number of possession actions - the first stage of an attempted repossession by a lender - stood at 18,504 in the first three months of the year.”
“This was 8% lower than the previous quarter and 24% down on the same period last year.”
“The number of possession orders agreed by judges also fell to 14,373 - a reduction of 13% on the previous quarter and 15% down on a year ago.”
“BT announced a profit of just over £1bn ($1.49bn) in the year to 31 March, compared with a loss of £244m during the previous 12 months.”
“BT said it made a profit of just over £1bn ($1.49bn) in the year to 31 March, compared with a loss of £244m during the previous year.”
“Sony has reported a loss of 40.8bn yen ($437m; £294m) for the year to the end of March, less than half the loss it made the previous year.”
“The company said it expects sales of 3D televisions and games to help it make a profit of 50bn yen in the year to end of March 2011.”
“Revenue for the year to March fell by almost 7% to 7.21 trillion yen.”
“Consumer product sales fell by 20%, partly because a strong yen made Sony's goods more expensive overseas.”
“The company's mobile phone division, Sony Ericsson, also suffered, with sales falling by 37%.”
“The Japanese electronics giant lost 98.9bn yen a year earlier, its first annual loss in 14 years.”
“There wasn't a big surprise but one worrisome thing is that the forecast figures were below expectations”
“The UK's main FTSE index closed up 0.9% on Thursday”
“Germany's Dax added 1.1%”
“Japan's Nikkei 225 adding 2.2%”
“Wall Street's main Dow Jones index was down 0.2%”
“Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said they would save the country 15bn euros ($19bn; £12.5bn) over two years.”
“Spain's budget deficit currently stands at 11% of GDP”
“reduce this to 6% by 2011”
“raise income tax by between 1% and 1.5%”
“tax on goods sold will rise to 21%”
“Salaries of politicians and public sector chiefs are to be cut by 5%”
“Last weekend, the EU and IMF agreed a 750bn-euro rescue package”
“France's Cac finished flat”
“Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said they would save the country 15bn euros ($19bn; £12.5bn) over two years”
“and the austerity measures are designed to reduce this to 6% by 2011”
“Portugal has announced its own new austerity measures, pledging to raise income tax by between 1% and 1.5%”
“A tax on goods sold, meanwhile, will rise to 21%”
“Overseas students pay average fees of £9,000 per year”
“In the UK, overseas students are worth £5.3bn each year, according to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.”
“making the minimum Grow VC investment of $20 a month.”
“is making the minimum Grow VC investment of $20 a month.”
“Genet and Angoulvant surpassed their fundraising goal, securing $13,598 from people who pledged anything from $1 to over $1,000.”
“Petra Soderling invests $20 a month through Grow VC.”
“Through the site, start-ups can secure initial funding ranging from $10,000 to $1m.”
“secured $13,598”
“The total capital raised through the site so far is $12.8m”
“Petra Soderling invests $20 a month through Grow VC”
“offered to donate the $20,000 needed to get his plans off the ground”
“ranging from $10,000 to $1m”
“Of 28 independent economists currently used by the Treasury to assist its forecasts, 24 said they expected the rate to rise in the coming parliament.”
“The majority predicted a rise from the current 17.5% to 20% before the end of 2011.”
“Analysts say a 20% rate would raise an estimated £11.5bn a year.”
“VAT was temporarily cut last year to 15% to aid the economic recovery.”
“On Wednesday the coalition said it wanted to see "a significantly accelerated reduction" in the country's borrowing, with £6bn of cuts planned in the first year.”
“Economist Azad Zangana, from Schroders, who is predicting a rise in VAT to 19%”
“He added, however, that £6bn in public spending cuts were only "a drop in the ocean" compared to what would be required to tackle the current £166bn deficit.”
“If it is to go up from the 17.5% rate, let's get good advance notice of that”
“M&S has announced plans to pump a total of £800m into its final salary pension scheme”
“M&S making cash contributions to the scheme totalling about £376m over the next eight years”
“scheme, which has more than 120,000 members”
“reported a deficit of £1.3bn in March this year”
“M&S will make payments of £35m a year for three years, followed by £60m a year until 2018”
“A further £300m will be provided through giving the pension scheme a bigger share in a current property-backed investment partnership”
“£124m will be made available by freeing up money currently invested in US dollar hedging contracts”
“Figures from the Commerce Department showed the gap between imports and exports rose 2.5% to $40.4bn.”
“Imports of goods and services were up 3.1% to $188.3bn in March”
“while exports rose 3.2% to $147.87bn.”
“The deficit with the 27-nation European Union rose to $7.1bn in March, a 32.7% jump.”
“So far this year, the US deficit is running at an annual rate of $467.2bn, 23.4% higher than last year's imbalance of $378.6bn.”
“The increase in imports was led by a 25.5% rise in crude shipments, which rose to $22.3bn in March.”
“An enhanced compensation scheme for over one million Equitable Life members has been announced by the two parties forming the UK's coalition government.”
“After the Equitable closed to new business in 2000 more than a million policyholders suffered large cuts...”
“After the Equitable closed to new business in 2000 more than a million policyholders suffered large cuts to the value of either their prospective or current pensions...”
“In July 2008 the Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, published a report which pinpointed 'a decade of regulatory failure' as being one of the main reasons for the collapse of the pension company.”
“She called on the government to set up a scheme to compensate the savers for the maladministration and their losses.”
“"The aim of such a scheme should be to put those people who have suffered a relative loss back into the position that they would have been in had maladministration not occurred," she said at the time.”
“Last October, the High Court approved the government's plan for only limited payments to those who had lost money 'disproportionately'.”
“A former High Court judge, Sir John Chadwick, has been trying to design a payment scheme to meet the government's aims, and his work has been ongoing until now.”
“Restoration of the earnings link for the basic state pension from April 2011 with a 'triple guarantee' that pensions are raised by the higher of earnings, prices or 2.5%, as proposed by the Liberal Democrats”
“An increase in the personal allowance for Income Tax from April 2011”
“A review to set the date at which the state pension age starts to rise to 66, although it will not be sooner than 2016 for men and 2020 for women.”
“An early peer review of fiscal policies would help shape a fiscal stance for the EU and the euro area as a whole.”
“Coordination of fiscal policy has to be conducted in advance, in order to ensure that national budgets are consistent with the European dimension, that they don't put at risk the stability of the other member states.”
“For [the] euro-area it means deeper and broader surveillance, in particular with regard to macroeconomic imbalances.”
“However, he did agree to pay back £7,000 he claimed for furniture costs at his London home.”
“Virtually all lenders require mortgages over 75% loan to value (LTV) to be on a repayment-only basis - that's why the Post Office rates would be so different,”
“The average deposit on a UK house purchase still stands at 25%, a level it has been at since the credit crunch and banking crisis of 2007 and 2008 forced lenders to start rationing their loans.”
“That level of downpayment is still required for 57% of all current mortgage deals on offer.”
