Three things your clients may call you about this week …

What made financial headlines over the weekend?

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Five crisis warnings; pre-Brexit remortgaging; regaining money from fraudsters; and internships for deserving candidates - here's our weekly heads-up on the financial stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend and one that may not have …

Five red lights that warn of a crisis ahead This Sunday Times article is predicting doom and gloom as it suggests UK household finances could soon take a hammering - and it has nothing to do with Christmas shopping. The UK housing market is at breaking point, the piece warns, with statistics suggesting record-low levels of homes are for sale in some areas and house prices are on the decline, while first-time buyers are being allowed to stretch their incomes to buy a house. Additionally, it says, household saving has plunged to a record low and Britain's 10-year bull run on the stockmar...

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