Property Week - 02/10/09 British households have found it tougher to obtain credit over the past three months, but banks expect to loosen up on lending towards the end of the year, the Bank of England has said. The Bank's credit conditions survey for the three months to the middle of September presented a mixed picture of the cost and availability of credit to households and businesses. http://www.younggroup.co.uk/research/atw.htm http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3150127&c=1#ixzz0SlPDlj7y YG-ATW-2009-T003 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:02:00 +0100 Property Week - 02/10/09 British households have found it tougher to obtain credit over the past three months, but banks expect to loosen up on lending towards the end of the year, the Bank of England has said. The Bank's credit conditions survey for the three months to the middle of September presented a mixed picture of the cost and availability of credit to households and businesses. http://www.younggroup.co.uk/research/atw.htm http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3150128&c=1#ixzz0SlPFtTBJ YG-ATW-2009-T002 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:02:00 +0100 The Times online - 27/09/09 David Wighton says the Bank of England is seeking to combat scepticism about its quantitative easing policy, having invited economists to a QE teach-in and with Monetary Policy Committee member David Miles yesterday claiming that QE is having a real impact. Wighton says the Bank will be wary of unwinding QE quickly, especially with the IMF warning that Britain faces the most serious credit shortfall of all the big Western economies. In a further item, Wighton says that Ernst & Young is starting to close the gap with the other big four accountants in the UK, after reporting an 8% rise in revenues last year. He says the improvement is partly attributable to last year's merger of all of E&Y's 88 member firms in Europe, the Middle East and Africa... http://www.younggroup.co.uk/research/atw.htm http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6856131.ece YG-ATW-2009-T001 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:02:00 +0100