Consumers Cut Borrowing by Record Amount
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Keeping a watchful eye on their debt, consumers cut back on their borrowing in November by the largest amount on record, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.
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Business & money: Mortgage lending rose to record levels last month as borrowers reacted to further interest rate rises.
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Charging people steep rates to borrow may not be so heinous.
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Mortgage lending hits another record in August, according to figures published by the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
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Business & money: Employers' clamour for rate cut reaches new pitch as credit crunch hits the British job market
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Merger and acquisition activity involving UK banks set a new record before the crisis in the credit market.
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In another indication of increasing consumer debt, a new federal report has found that the percentage of borrowers who turned to high-cost loans to buy or refinance their houses rose last year.
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More than a fifth of people who have come off fixed-rate mortgages have found it hard to meet their repayments.
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Mortgage lending hits a record high for the month of January, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML).
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Consumers kept charging at a rapid pace on their credit cards in July although their overall borrowing slowed a bit.
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Business & money: Figures show sharpest fall for almost two years as trouble in the US housing market starts to spread and weigh down on consumer spending.
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U.S. consumer credit rose by a  bigger-than-expected $10.27 billion in June on a surge in  credit card debt, a Federal Reserve Report on Monday showed.
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The credit crunch has turned $417,000 into the magic number for home buyers shopping for mortgages.
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Home loan borrowing continued to surge in July, the Council of Mortgage Lenders says.
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The burden of paying off household debts has reached record levels, says a leading firm of accountants.
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First-time home buyers now take out mortgages worth, on average, 3.31 times their income, a watchdog says.
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People in the UK are borrowing almost twice that of citizens in other western European countries, a report says.