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	<description>Find up to the minute information on personal loans in the uk. Includes news stories and commentary on the uk finance market. Provides useful guidance on low rate personal loans and cheap loans from a variety of sources.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>PPI: The Saga Continues</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/11/15/ppi-the-saga-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Competition Commission has declared that payment protection insurance (PPI) should not be sold to a customer within 14 days of being sold a loan. Apparently the Commission is planning a crackdown after it estimated that £1.4bn of &#8220;excess profit&#8221; was made by the PPI in 2006. 
For those who are unclear, PPI should ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insolvencies on the rise</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/11/08/insolvencies-on-the-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 11:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In further evidence of the worsening effect of the credit crunch on ordinary people there has been a sharp rise in the number of people and companies being declared insolvent in
England and
Wales.
Individual insolvencies went up by 8.8% in the third quarter of the year to reach 27,087. Corporate liquidations also went up by 10.5% in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pressure eases on motorists at last</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/30/pressure-eases-on-motorists-at-last/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/30/pressure-eases-on-motorists-at-last/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After months of pain at the pumps there is good news for Britain’s motorists. A price war has broken out after Asda, Sainsbury&#8217;s, Tesco and Morrisons all announced cheaper petrol.
Asda and Sainsbury&#8217;s said they would slash their petrol prices to 94.9p a litre. Tesco and Morrisons then said they would reduce their prices, while petrol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The recession should dispel inflation</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/20/the-recession-should-dispel-inflation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an announcement that will shock none but dismay many, the UK economy has ‘deteriorated dramatically’ in the past three months, and is already in a recession, according to the latest forecasts
The figures suggest that the UK will shrink by 1% over the next year, before recovering in 2010 and growing by 1%. 
There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baring collusion, domestic energy prices will fall</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/17/baring-collusion-domestic-energy-prices-will-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/17/baring-collusion-domestic-energy-prices-will-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The fervent hopes of homeowners that their energy bills may fall are in the balance after the regulatory watchdog was called in to monitor the activities of utility companies.
The fear of a global recession has pushed down the price of crude. A barrel of oil has fallen from a high of around $147 in July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The banks have won a battle, but not the war</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/15/the-banks-have-won-a-battle-but-not-the-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/15/the-banks-have-won-a-battle-but-not-the-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a set back in the ongoing court case against unfair bank charges since the banks have won the latest round of the High Court battle. 
Judge Mr Justice Andrew Smith says most customers will not be able to use common law to challenge bank charges levied mostly between 2001 and 2007. However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m not political but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/10/im-not-political-but/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury and assorted other titles, Mr. Gordon Brown, really has no shame whatsoever.
Today he called for the recent falls in the price of oil to be passed on to UK consumers, claiming that ‘oil prices are now beginning to come down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a loan: the lastest situation</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/07/getting-a-loan-the-lastest-situation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/07/getting-a-loan-the-lastest-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly given the global financial situation, banks are proving increasingly reluctant to lend money. Rates for loans have increased by 9% in the past four weeks.
Eight providers have increased their rates while the number of loans available has dropped from 56 to 52, according to the price comparison site Uswitch.com
Black Horse has increased rates by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The savings protection threshold is raised again</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/04/the-savings-protection-threshold-is-raised-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/10/04/the-savings-protection-threshold-is-raised-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In some good news for savers with large deposits, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has raised the limit to the amount of deposits that are guaranteed should a bank go bust to £50,000. Previously, only the first £35,000 of deposits were protected.
The new limit will come into effect this Tuesday, the 7th October. 
The FSA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The rule of chaos and disorder</title>
		<link>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/09/29/the-rule-of-chaos-and-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.personal-loans-blog.co.uk/2008/09/29/the-rule-of-chaos-and-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was another day of chaos and confusion on the global markets that will have ramifications for a long time to come.
Here in the UK, the building society Bradford and Bingley (B&#38;B) has been nationalised, in the US, Congress has voted down the much vaunted financial rescue package, and banking stocks are tumbling around the [...]]]></description>
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