UK seeks to ease mortgage funding
Story date: 2008-03-04 07:28:00
Added on: 2008-03-04 22:20:54
Financial Times - ... to the US, the UK does not have agencies, with implicit government support, such as Fannie Mae or the Federal Home ... The spreads of mortgage interest rates compared with official rates have widened sharply.
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