Three things clients may call you about this week...

Three things clients may call you about this week...

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Here is our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend...

  Interest rate rises The Telegraph grapples with the spectre of interest rate rises and the mortgage market this weekend.  The paper states the first rate rise could be "just months away" and asks how mortgage rates will react and outlines what borrowers should do.Bank of England governor Mark Carney stated last month that Bank Rate could rise at the end of the year. This led to a spate of rate rises from lenders. The paper said Barclays, Santander and Yorkshire Building Society grabbed headlines when they increased their rates, "although the rises were relatively modest". The...

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