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Mortgage loan rate plays very important and even decisive role in the process of applying for a certain mortgage loan. Mortgage loan types vary much from company to company as well as their mortgage loan rates. There is no doubt that no matter whether a borrower has a good credit or poor credit, he/she aims at best mortgage rate. In order to find best mortgage rates, it’s very important to understand how they are generated and to which factors you have to pay proper attention. Nowadays purchasing a home is always associated with home loans or in other words mortgage loans.

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Most people have several different debts, ie., credit cards, loans and overdrafts. Debt consolidation Companies advise that you can take the hassle out of this combination of monthly out-going payments, by consolidating debts, with no worry about tarnishing your credit rating. But it is not the case, when this method is in practice.

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The most popular method of consolidating debt is to move all of your loans to a single loan with a lower rate of interest. Unlike credit cards (that have annual percentage rates in excess of 10%), many loans are available at cheaper rates of interest. Borrowers need to pay one fee a month and can easily track the progress of their loan. But, you should only borrow, if you can secure a competitive rate of interest that will bring your monthly outgoings down.

The Bank of England has cut interest rates to 0.5% – a fresh all-time low – and says it will now boost the money supply to help revive the economy.

Interest rates have now been reduced six times since October, and the latest half a percentage point cut from January’s 1% had been expected.

The Bank said it would expand the amount of money in the system by £75bn in an attempt to boost bank lending.

This policy, so far untried in the UK, is called quantitative easing.

Mortgage fraud rose to a 13-year high of £36 million last year, approximately 10 times higher than the recorded £3.7 million in 2007.

According to KPMG’s forensic fraud barometer, more than £1.1 billion worth of cases were heard at UK courts last year recording the second highest level of fraud in the survey’s 21 year history.

However KPMG warned that most fraud committed since the credit crunch has not yet come to court and the trend of increasing mortgage fraud is likely to get worse with the global economic downturn.

The forensic investigation unit of KPMG stated that crime by professional gangs remained at the “extremely high” levels seen in previous years, while fraud by company managers, employees and customers trebled to £300 million last year.

Additionally a fivefold increase in company fraud from £24 million in 2007 to £125 million last year was visible.

Britain is experiencing a deeper recession than other countries because of the relative size of the country’s financial sector, finance minister Alistair Darling said Tuesday as he tried to deflect criticism of the government for the scale of the economic crisis.

“Because we have such a large financial services sector and also because of the nature of our housing market, we were bound to be affected to a greater extent than some countries,” Darling told a committee of the House of Lords.

Darling’s comments followed last week’s prediction from the IMF that Britain’s recession would be deeper than elsewhere. It forecast that Britain’s economy would contract by 2.8 percent this year, which would be the country’s worst performance since the 1930s, and more than the 2.5 percent predicted for Germany and the 1.6 percent penciled in for U.S.

In his last set of forecasts in November last year, Darling predicted that the British economy would contract by between only 0.75-1.25 percent and insisted that Britain was in a better position than other countries to weather the storm emanating from the seizing up of credit markets and the near collapse of the global banking system.

He is expected to downgrade his 2009 forecast in March or April when he delivers the Budget and will no doubt face criticism for underplaying the scale of the recession. Britain officially entered into recession — considered to be two consecutive quarters of negative growth — in the fourth quarter of 2008 when figures showed that it contracted by a massive 1.5 percent from the previous three month period.

Britain has fallen into its worst recession since the 1980s, official government figures have confirmed.

According to the Office for National Statistics the economy shrank again in the last three months of 2008 by 1.5 % and that’s after a 0.6% drop in the previous quarter.

With economic growth falling in two consecutive quarters the UK has met the official definition of a recession. The downturn, greater than economists predicted, marks the worst performance since the slump of the early eighties, which saw unemployment rise above three million.

The figures come as the jobless total soared to 1.92 million and as the Government bailed out troubled banks for a second time, pulling the economy from the brink of collapse.

Chancellor Alistair Darling said the figures underlined the scale of the challenges the government faced. He said: “It’s going to be a difficult year for families in the UK. We need to go about the problem with a sense of purpose.”

But Christian financial advisor Sid Cordle said people need to start seeking God for the solution:

“What we need to do as a nation is get on our knees and realise that maybe man has not got the answer to all these massive problems. We actually ought to start praying as a nation rather than throwing lots of money at the problem.”

Mr Cordle said he would love the church to tell Gordon Brown to start praying about the situation.

“If the Church could actually say to the Government ‘let’s call for a national day of prayer to come before God with the problems of the nation’ that would be a massive step forward. For every individual, whatever their situation in the present time, they need to say ‘right God what do you want me to do, how do you want me to behave with my finances.”

The debate on the length and depth of the recession is complicated to predict at this stage but some economists believe it could stretch as far as 2010. Usually recessions will last for between 3-5 quarters.