The re-election of Barack Obama as US President was initially greeted with some relief by financial markets, largely reflecting the fact that it was a clear-cut outcome. But it was not long before concerns re-surfaced about America's so-called US 'fiscal cliff'...
12/11/12
Representatives from the UK mortgage industry will gather in London on Wednesday for the CML Mortgage Industry Conference and Exhibition 2012. The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster will play host to the The Council of Mortgage Lenders' flagship event.
06/11/12
HSBC today reveals it has approved £38.3bn in new loans to UK businesses and mortgage borrowers in the first nine months of 2012, an 11% increase on the same period in 2011. HSBC in the UK lending highlights for January - September 2012: Mortgage customers Approved £15.6bn to UK mortgage borrowers...
05/11/12
New research from HSBC reveals that 31% of UK households have less than £250 set aside as a financial safety net. The recommended minimum 'salary cushion' is three months' average monthly take-home pay...
03/11/12
"If something looks too good to be true, it probably is". The old adage seems very pertinent to the UK's third-quarter GDP figures which, taken at face value, suggest that the economy just staged the greatest recovery from the dead since Lazarus. But everyone...
30/10/12
The trickle of economic data released during the past few days has provided relatively thin gruel for financial markets to digest. The most noteworthy UK data were the disappointing figures for trade and industrial produ1.1on, which highlighted - not for the first time...
12/10/12
This week's economic data releases haven't shed much new light on the state of the world economy, so financial markets have again been focused on the latest phase of the Eurozone debt crisis.
08/10/12
The mood in financial markets was more nervous this week as worries about the Eurozone debt crisis bubbled back to the surface. In particular, there was concern about a joint statement by German...
01/10/12
A new report written and researched by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr), on behalf of HSBC...
29/09/12
Representatives from more that 50 companies attended HSBC's offices in Canary Wharf on Tuesday (25th September) for the latest networking meeting for signatories of the Deputy Prime Minister's Social Mobility Business Compact.
26/09/12
