Constellation Energy reported on Thursday it was working with Maryland political and regulatory leaders on a settlement of several legal and legislative issues that would include the company issuing $187 million in credits to customers.

Britain's largest bank, HSBC, has written off $17.2 billion in bad debt after the U.S. housing market slide hit the value of its loans in 2007. The annual loss is the largest reported amongst Britain's big five mortgage lenders. For VOA, Tom Rivers in London reports.

Although a lot of companies and websites out there claim to give you a copy of your credit reports for free, over 95% of them will make you to sign up to a credit monitoring service which will eventually cost you money before you can see your "free" credit report.

All of us, perhaps, dream of owning our own home someday, and despite the travails of the current mortgage sector, most still long to have a home of their own, and would gladly plump our life savings and salaries on getting the best mortgage offer possible.

25th October 2007, Maidenhead: Intuit UK has teamed up with Experian® to provide its credit reporting service so that small and medium enterprises that use its QuickBooks software can check the financial status of customers, suppliers and prospects at a click of a mouse. Developed in association with leading edge software organisation, InfoBridge Software, the new service gives instant access to the most comprehensive and high quality UK company credit rating information from Experian®.