Buy-to-let flat loses £95,000 in value
July 4th, 2008B&B shares slide after TPG walks away from rescue
July 4th, 2008
Bradford & Bingley shares fell below their 55p rights issue price after its largest investors were forced to step in to rescue the ailing mortgage lender. TPG pulled out of a £400m capital increase after Moody's downgraded B&B
Fed values Bear Stearns assets at $29bn
July 4th, 2008
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York confirmed the estimated fair value of assets that were formerly held by Bear Stearns at about $29bn, about $1bn less than they were worth when the investment bank was sold to JPMorgan in March
UBS confirms facing further write-downs
July 4th, 2008
The Swiss bank, Europe's biggest casualty of the US subprime crisis, confirmed it faced further heavy write-downs on exposures to troubled US credits, meaning second-quarter would be 'at or slightly below' break-even
TPG walks away from UK bank rescue
July 4th, 2008
Private equity group TPG Capital pulled out of a £400m capital increase for Bradford & Bingley after Moody's downgraded the UK mortgage lender's credit rating
JPMorgan to cull European workforce further
July 4th, 2008
Job cuts at the US group's investment banking business in the region reflect how the economic slowdown is hitting even banks that have weathered the credit crisis well
Child trust fund savings rates drop
July 4th, 2008
Despite the credit crunch driven savings price war the average rate on cash Child Trust Funds has dropped by 0.21% over the past year
On a spree, boy with ?2m in his account
July 4th, 2008
A cash machine mistakenly told a 16-year-old boy he had £2m in the bank, causing him to go on a spending spree
Halifax cuts rates for second time
July 4th, 2008
Halifax has cut the rates on some of its variable rate accounts for the second time since April, while Heritable launches a high interest account for over-50s



