Fewer companies and more citizens bust.
Hannover (dpa / lni) - The number of corporate bankruptcies in Lower Saxony has declined slightly in the first half of 2010. As the State Company for Statistics and Technology announced on Monday, reported from January to June 1296 on corporate insolvency. That is 2.5 percent less than during the same period last year. The sum of the creditor claims, and thus the economic, sto energy credits, damage is around 782 million euros. The number of consumer insolvencies in the first half on the other hand increased by 13.6 percent to 7262nd Here, the sum of the claims around 360 million euros.