Lenders can sustain a 20% drop in house prices – Moody’s

May 30, 2008
UK banks and building societies could sustain a 20% fall in UK house prices in a year without further damaging their capital reserves, a report has claimed. Moody’s Global Banking, the credit rating agency, published a study today (May 30) on the UK banking system which included “stress tests” on the mortgage market. In a “level one” scenario in which …

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