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<title>Britain&apos;s biggest mortgage lender warns credit gloom &apos;will last to 2010&apos;</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186886692</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 05:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  prices in America start to rise again - and that could take 18 months. HBOS chief executive Andrew Hornby says it could be well into 2010 before the economic  ...
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<title>Blair: Brown should go or Labour face disaster at polls... and to make it worse Ruth Kelly hints she may quit Cabinet</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186886681</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 05:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  a final decision will be made when a report on the issue by former HBOS bank boss Sir James Crosby is completed later this month. ...
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<title>Uncertainty will rule until the election</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186882532</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 05:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  guarantees deposits up to $100,000. Banks such as Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Wachovia and HBOS will have to raise a total of almost $800 billion to cover debt that  ...
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<title>Brown heads off rebellion as MP backs down over fuel windfall tax</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186882512</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 05:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the credit crunch could last for another 18 months. Andy Hornby, chief executive of HBOS, told the BBC that house prices were not likely to rise again until 2010,  ...
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<title>Builders to write off 300m on back of falling land and house prices</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186880575</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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...  cent. It wrote off just over 40m. Crest Nicholson, which is privately owned by HBOS and Sir Tom Hunter, recently hired the accountants Deloitte to restructure its debt. It  ...
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<title>Is Brown&apos;s housing plan too late?</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186879889</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 04:59 GMT</pubDate>
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...  now a question of who to believe about how much further prices will fall. HBOS last week released figures showing the average price of a property had fallen by  ...
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<title>HBOS chief says credit crunch likely to last another 18 months</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186879030</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 04:58 GMT</pubDate>
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...  loans until they could once again raise significant sums on wholesale financial markets. The HBOS chief said that US money-market investors would not resume channelling of money to UK  ...
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<title>Business Comment: Why Brown shouldn&apos;t waste his energies on windfall tax</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186878977</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 04:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Lessons learned? Don&apos;t bank on it ANDY Hornby, the normally publicity-shy chief executive of HBOS, told the BBC that it will be 18 months before banks had the confidence  ...
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<title>Nationwide swoops on battered rivals</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186878530</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 04:57 GMT</pubDate>
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...  increasingly reluctant to lend to each other. Yesterday, Andy Hornby, the chief executive of HBOS, warned that the credit crunch was likely to last until 2010. Expectations of rising  ...
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<title>House sellers hit by race to gazunder</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186870386</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 04:24 GMT</pubDate>
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...  were 12.7% lower in August than a year ago. Andy Hornby, chief executive of HBOS, the owner of Halifax, expects the credit crunch to last until 2010. &amp;ldquo;It will  ...
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<title>Estate agent massacre</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186864887</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 03:25 GMT</pubDate>
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...  has had more than 50% wiped off its share price in the past year. HBOS recently announced plans to close more than a quarter of its Halifax branches, with  ...
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<title>HBOS chief warns credit crunch to last</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186850527</link>
<pubDate>7 Sep 2008 00:07 GMT</pubDate>
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... HBOS chief warns credit crunch to last LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of home  ...
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<title>European markets fall on Economic growth concerns - European commentary</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186743824</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 22:19 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Britain&apos;s second largest bank, slipped 3.5% and Barclays, Britain&apos;s second largest bank, dropped 3.6%. HBOS, Britain&apos;s biggest mortgage lender, lost 2.5% and Credit Agricole, France&apos;s third biggest lender, slid  ...
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<title>The London market slumped more than 2 per cent for the third session in a row as more miserable economic data sent shares diving.</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186741993</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 22:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Barclays shed 12p to 317.25p and Royal Bank of Scotland fell 8p to 219.75p. HBOS was also 2 per cent down, or 7p, to 275.5p. Other financial sector firms  ...
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<title>FTSE closes at 5240.7</title>
<link>http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=186741992</link>
<pubDate>5 Sep 2008 22:09 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Barclays shed 12p to 317.25p and Royal Bank of Scotland fell 8p to 219.75p. HBOS was also 2 per cent down, or 7p, to 275.5p. Other financial sector firms  ...
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