Costello warns banks on interest rates

Story date: 2007-10-24 05:35:00
Added on: 2007-10-24 20:00:51

Age - Treasurer Peter Costello has warned banks not to use problems in the US as an excuse to raise local home mortgage rates. He said banks borrowing in the US had to pay more for funds because the US economy was in trouble and they were saying they were ...


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