https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Almost 4,000 students have waited for four weeks for payment from Sweden's student grants and loans body CSN, which has been so flooded with calls that the agency simply turned off its telephones. https://www.thelocal.se/20131018/50864 Fri, 18 Oct 2013 10:31:00 +0200 50864 Seemingly undeterred by the debt crisis, Swedish households are taking out more new loans than any other Europeans, according to a comparison of mortgages made by national TV station SVT. https://www.thelocal.se/20111120/37454 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 11:05:00 +0100 37454 The net worth of Swedish households grew by 244 billion kronor ($35.58 billion) to 7.26 trillion kronor in the third quarter, the measure's highest nominal level ever, according to a new SEB study. https://www.thelocal.se/20101220/30968 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:39:00 +0100 30968 Swedish investment firm Öresund has been has been authorized by the Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen - FI) to buy its investment fund operation HQ Fonder. https://www.thelocal.se/20100614/27214 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:35:00 +0200 27214 Swedish students are being forced to pay back tens of thousands of kronor at short notice because universities and the student loan authority can't agree on how to define a full-time student. https://www.thelocal.se/20100521/26786 Fri, 21 May 2010 19:15:00 +0200 26786 The Swedish Enforcement Authority (Kronofogden) received notice of 46,000 unpaid text message loans in 2009, an increase of 30 percent on 2008. https://www.thelocal.se/20100203/24754 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:54:00 +0100 24754 The Flemish government has responded positively to an appeal from Volvo Cars CEO Stephen Odell to support its Belgian operations. https://www.thelocal.se/20090525/19640 Mon, 25 May 2009 11:57:00 +0200 19640 Estonia has signed a multi-million euro loan deal with Swedish bank Swedbank, the Tallinn government confirmed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20090521/19578 Thu, 21 May 2009 11:57:00 +0200 19578 Swedish households have become 400 billion kronor ($66 billion) poorer in the year's first three months. https://www.thelocal.se/20080616/12460 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:13:00 +0200 12460