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  • Lessons for Jamaica from US subprime debacle

    Jamaica Gleaner - Last week's column noted that the financial crisis that began in subprime mortgages - mortgage lending to high-risk borrowers ... and rumoured to be the world's richest man, is a ferocious deep pocketed competitor, and is likely to want to reverse ...
    2007-08-26 04:53:00
  • Subprime assets infect many money market funds

    Buffalo News - A middleman then bundles hundreds of these subprime mortgages into so-called asset-backed securities. Next, a CDO manager buys ... tail lights Diocese accused of ignoring complaints of teacher's sexual advances Former state employee wins $150,000 in reverse ...
    2007-08-26 10:43:00
  • New-home sales rise 2.8% to 870,000 pace in July

    Marketwatch - The data cover activity through the end of July, before the severe credit squeeze forced additional mortgage lenders out of business and made nonconforming mortgages, including jumbo mortgages, harder to obtain. Most economists expect home sales to ...
    2007-08-24 05:05:00
  • Meet victims of the mortgage mess

    Buffalo News - ... five years, the housing boom put money in the pockets of lenders, brokers, realtors and investors, and granted easy mortgages ... tail lights Diocese accused of ignoring complaints of teacher's sexual advances Former state employee wins $150,000 in reverse ...
    2007-08-26 10:43:00
  • Transatlantic storm hits Northern Rock

    Observer - HBOS points out that, while the value of houses in the US stands at 2.5 times the value of outstanding mortgages - and, in a growing number of states, that is falling as once-soaring house prices start to reverse - here it is 3.5 times and, for the ...
    2007-08-25 10:55:00
  • Mortgages test Muslims’ faith

    Buffalo News - Imam Souleimane Konate of New York believes Muslims can take out mortgages without breaking Sharia, but not all Muslims agree. ... tail lights Diocese accused of ignoring complaints of teacher's sexual advances Former state employee wins $150,000 in reverse ...
    2007-08-26 10:43:00
  • Evans senior news (Greeley Tribune)

    Red Hatters: Join us for a Jell-O Party at 11 a.m. Monday. Your $5 fee can be paid at the door, and we will have door prizes and entertainment. Don't forget to bring your Jell-O salad or dessert. Please R.S.V.P. to (970) 475-1132.
    2007-08-26 07:12:24
  • Ogallalans decline to flaunt their prosperity on Front Street (Lincoln Journal Star)

    OGALLALA — One day recently, a farmer walked into Cox Chevrolet & Buick in this western Nebraska town and ordered a new truck of precisely the same model and color as his old one. “He doesn’t want anyone to know he has a new truck,” says Craig Cox, the dealership’s owner.
    2007-08-26 05:41:30
  • Reverse mortgages' popularity grows despite costs (East Valley Tribune)

    After a decade of retirement, John and Stella Dohrer were increasingly feeling squeezed financially as living costs edged upward year after year.
    2007-08-25 10:48:49
  • UPDATE 3-Royal Bank of Canada profit up, stock dips

    Reuters - It also said it has "nominal exposure" to Canada's troubled nonbank-sponsored asset backed commercial paper (ABCP) market, which seized up last week when ABCP issuers failed to refinance maturing notes. Continued... © Reuters 2007. All Rights ...
    2007-08-24 04:01:00
  • SachsenLB postpones publication of H1 results to Aug 31 UPDATE

    Forbes - SachsenLB recently had to be provided with a 17.3 bln eur credit line by Germany's savings banks after it struggled to refinance its Ormond Quay fund because of the US sub-prime credit crisis. Saxony's government will discuss the bank's future at an ...
    2007-08-24 11:14:00
  • BAA recruits big guns to counter critics

    Times Online - ... what it considers a satisfactory return, it may reconsider plans for a £4 billion reconstruction of the central terminals known as “Heathrow East”. A failure to secure the desired returns could also hamper Ferrovial’s plans to refinance its ...
    2007-08-25 10:26:00
  • Widening woes

    Orange County Register - Most of the buyers who ended up in foreclosure owned their homes for about two years, buying at the peak of the market and hoping to refinance out of risky loans using price gains that never materialized, agents said. Staci Treloggen of Prudential ...
    2007-08-26 10:15:00
  • Homeowner nightmares

    Worcester Telegram & Gazette - Through the agency, the Fanfans negotiated a rate of 9.5 percent and the right to refinance in two years. The monthly battle to make payments isn’t over, but Milca is working several jobs to make sure it is won. “I want people to know they can ...
    2007-08-26 10:15:00
  • County rivals Brodnax, Leach meet again

    Biloxi Sun Herald - I hope he did refinance everything he could at a lower rate," Brodnax said. "He knows how to crunch numbers, and I know how to get the value out of the money we have." Brodnax, an engineer, said he did some research and found that the county spent ...
    2007-08-26 11:26:00