When expats return to the U.S., they might not have a FICO score for as long as six months after new credit transactions are reported.
The sellers of the pictured homes are offering buyers a credit equal to six months of real estate property taxes.
Some, like Credit Suisse, offer around six months' salary to new employees who agree to start a year later.
Back home, First is best known as Britain's largest train operator, lambasted for every late arrival in Reading, Bath or Bristol (its biggest route) rather than being lauded for increasing profits in the six months to September last year, despite the credit crunch and a collapsing economy.
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It beat the Standard and Poors credit watchdogs to the punch by almost six months.
Business at the investment banks has certainly slowed in the last six months, apart from the problems with exposure to the credit markets.
Watchdogs take the tiniest of naps because six months of watchdogging is exhausting and here we are: credit card peddlers are back on campus.
Despite gender, in the last six months 59% of all small business owners report not pursuing credit.
As discussed earlier, the recession that we believe is now starting in the U.S. will spread globally in about six months as U.S. imports weaken and the global credit crunch curbs financial activity worldwide.
As Adam Posen, a member of the MPC, said this week, the policy has contributed to preventing a deflationary spiral and encouraged an improvement in credit conditions and asset markets over the past six months.
And the credit is equal to the taxes paid for the six months prior to the sale.
Universal Credit will be rolled out in Northern Ireland from April 2014, six months after rollout in the rest of the UK begins.
So if you want to open a couple of new cards, be choosy, selecting major credit cards over single-store cards, and apply three or six months apart.
The company's hired Tallahassee lobbyist, James Eaton, takes credit for getting Florida's regulations banning self-referrals passed in 1992, six months before the federal government approved a similar bill.
Based on the responses of over 200 risk managers, FICO concluded that survey respondents have made it clear that they expect delinquencies on credit cards, auto loans, and small business loans to decline over the next six months.
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Credit standards are not dramatically looser, but any business that was right on the margin six months ago is probably bankable, by someone, today.
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