business - "market"

The UK's biggest lender today became the latest bank to increase the cost of its home loans after a week of turmoil in the mortgage market.

BusinessWeek Online - Seattle-based Zillow.com, best known for its instant home value 'Zestimates,' launched a new service on Apr. 3 aimed at changing the way Americans shop for mortgages.

Stocks turned higher early Friday afternoon, as investors took in stride a weak March jobs report and instead redirected their focus on hints that the worst may be over for the market.

Canada's unemployment rate rose by 0.2 percentage points to six per cent in March, pushed up by an influx of people into the labour market, Statistics Canada said Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (MARKET WIRE) TickerMine, a publisher of real-time, objective channel and point-of-sale market data, today announced a significant increase in traffic to its web site as investors seek more detailed information during a period of market volatility. The company reported a fifty percent increase in page views on www.tickermine.com in March over the previous month, amounting to a two hundred fifty percent increase over December. Research on stocks in categories such as automotive, consumer staples, consumer discretionary goods, and gaming were popular. Additionally, TickerMine published fifty percent more

Mortgage lenders are calling upon the government to do more to promote equityrelease schemes among UK homeowners. A new report from the lender trade body,the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML), entitled; 'Please release me! A reviewof the equity release market in the UK, its potential and consumerexpectations', tackles the issues of why equity release is more popularoverseas than it is in the UK.

Bonds rose Friday morning after a disappointing report on the U.S. job market raised fears that the economy is in a recession.

Regional stocks were split, with car and technology stocks falling while Seoul, Jakarta and Sydney posted gains. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index was 0.5 per cent lower

Financial market turbulence and fears of a U.S. recession are expected to lead to a subdued performance by the world economy this year, posing risks for euro zone growth, the Central Bank of Ireland said on Friday.

Some tips for selling your home in a down market.