Warning on slow mortgage recovery - BBC News
Story date: 2008-05-07 11:30:00
Added on: 2008-05-09 01:00:52
Mr Cornish says that building societies - which raise a chunk of funds from depositors - do not have the same reliance on wholesale funding as some of the major mortgage banks or Northern Rock did before it hit trouble. Building societies benefited ...
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