Archive for October, 2009

Southwest Georgia Bank announces 3rd quarter results

Southwest Georgia Financial Corporation, a full service community bank holding company, this week reported net income of $467,000, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2009, up from a net loss of $2.67 million, or $1.05 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2008.


Consider these factors before refinancing your home

Dear Liz: When does it make sense to refinance a home? I have a 30-year, fixed-rate jumbo loan.


Consider these factors before refinancing your home

Dear Liz: When does it make sense to refinance a home? I have a 30-year, fixed-rate jumbo loan.


National Savings bond set to spark rate war

National Savings has launched a one-year fixed-rate savings bond paying a table-topping 3.95%, which is likely to prompt a pre-Christmas rate war National Savings & Investments , the government’s savings body, has launched a table-topping one-year 3.95% fixed-rate savings bond. With interest rates looking likely to stay low – well into 2011, according to the Centre for Business and Economic …


‘I had it all, but I didn’t have a life’

Gaby Hinsliff, political editor of the Observer, has resigned to spend more time with her two-year-old son. She explains why she can’t juggle work and family any longer Tucked away down a winding track on a remote Welsh peninsula, the farmhouse we rented for a family holiday last June was a much-needed haven from real life


Beware – there are still sharks swimming in the sale-and-rent-back pool

Against many analysts’ expectations, Britain remains deeply entrenched in recession, with all the woe that brings for job prospects and family incomes.


Battle for the future of British banking

When high politics meets high banking blood will be spilt. After an astonishing week of manoeuvring Jonathan Sibun and Philip Aldrick assess the casualties.


Get a corking rate of interest

Don’t get sucked into nightmare of recurring card payments, says Martin Lewis.


RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Spare us the squeals of self-pity. The gravy train is cancelled

Up to 200 MPs are reported to be preparing to give up their first-class seats in the Commons because they’re no longer allowed to fiddle their expenses.


Scotiabank Mexico Announces Third Quarter Results

Grupo Scotiabank today announced results for the third quarter of 2009. Continued underlying mortgage growth, higher non-interest income and lower provisions for credit losses were more than offset by the impact of falling market rates on interest income, higher expenses and a higher effective tax rate.