Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Financial crisis - the sequel, house price falls and recession - here's our weekly heads-up on the not very jolly financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

There's trouble brewing in the global economy so save more now This Financial Times article ensures it gets a jump on the impending ‘Financial crisis 10 years on' bonanza by picking out 8 August 2007 as the first sniff of what was coming - and then writing about it two weeks ahead of time. For the record, that was the day French bank BNP Paribas revealed its concerns about "the complete evaporation of liquidity in certain segments of the US securitisation market" . Almost a decade letter, the piece continues, if things were back to normal, UK interest rates would be too - and "there is...

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