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BBA Mortgage approvals up, and other data, has everyone given up?
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Won't post every one of his comments but I see Geneer manage to post on two subjects at lunch time. Pretty good though he only used the "f" word on one of the threads. Oh, how I miss him.
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33.4K Highest level for the last 12 months.
The dire state of the major banks means its unlikely to pick up for a very long time.
As the existing debt needs to be repaid in order to be recycled back in to the market. There's no new money available. If anything less. As banks write down the value of European government debt.0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »The dire state of the major banks means its unlikely to pick up for a very long time.
As the existing debt needs to be repaid in order to be recycled back in to the market. There's no new money available. If anything less. As banks write down the value of European government debt.
Even ignoring the potential for bad debts stopping the banks providing new loans, Basle III and new capital requirements will put a dampened on bank lending for a decade, if implemented.0 -
Oh, how I miss him.

That much is painfully obvious pimperne1.
Seems Hamish did to, as he was compelled to pop in and say hello.Won't post every one of his comments but I see Geneer manage to post on two subjects at lunch time. Pretty good though he only used the "f" word on one of the threads.
So it appears you were the only bull banned from a website so open and anti-censorship that it allows -gasp- colourful language as a matter of course. Lets ponder the repercussions of that.0
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