UK firms may feel lending pinch
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Firms are likely to feel tighter credit restrictions more than households, according to a Bank of England survey.
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Concerns about a slump in UK house prices may damage chances of selling Northern Rock, a report says.
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Big banks try to gird for crises as a  matter of course and investors will soon learn how prepared  they were for this summer&#39;s credit crunch.
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Business & money: Bank could step in to tackle fresh inflation fears.
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The Bank of England provided emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock PLC on Friday after the bank, citing the global credit squeeze triggered by the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, said it was unable to line up short-term loans from other financial institutions. Even after the central bank issued a statement saying Northern Rock was solvent, slow moving lines of customers snaked through its doors to make withdrawals.
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If Fannie Mae (FNM) is hampered by new limits on its operations, shareholders of the USA&#39;s biggest mortgage-investment company are likely to feel the pinch more than the nation&#39;s mortgage borrowers.
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Not so long ago, highly leveraged companies could get loans to bail themselves out. Now they canât.
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Small manufacturers in the UK are struggling in the face of soaring oil prices and higher interest rates, the CBI says.
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The Bank of England has left its key lending rate at 4.75 percent for the fourth month in a row, but analysts are split over whether borrowing costs will go up again next year.
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Global credit squeeze undermining private sector sale of mortgage lender
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In the wake of the subprime mortgage meltdown, traditional financial institutions have tightened up on who gets to borrow money. But some people are still finding ways to borrow what they need, thanks to another area of lending that is booming.
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Services firms are worried that they are vulnerable to a weakening economy, a CBI report warns.
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Investment banks and hedge funds may wind up as the top lenders to wannabee home buyers with poor credit.
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Business & money: Britain's seventh-biggest bank warns margins this year will be hit by higher funding costs
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Business leaders are calling for more interest rate cuts after the Bank of England cut the cost of borrowing to 5.25%.
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A swathe of figures have provided further evidence of a slowdown in the UK property market. The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), British Bankers Association (BBA) and Building Societies Association (BSA) all said mortgage lending was slowing.
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A slew of private equity deals already  under financing pressure from the credit crunch now face added  concerns over a potential recession.