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  • Mortgage market needs $1 trillion, FBR estimates

    Marketwatch - Either inject $1 trillion of new capital into the mortgage market, or allow prices of mortgage securities to fall (and interest rates on home loans to climb), Miller said.
    2008-03-06 03:58:00

  • Losers You Should Love

    Forbes - Home Business Tech Markets Entrepreneurs Leadership Personal Finance ForbesLife Lists Opinions ... has avoided many of the subprime pitfalls that have felled other mortgage pools. Annaly was hurt previously by rising short-term interest rates, but now that ...
    2008-03-04 03:53:00

  • Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Picture of U.S. Economy

    New York Times - ... this month — with more to come after that — by offering banks one-month loans at low rates and in return letting them pledge mortgage ... rates twice in January and clearly signaled that it would cut them again on March 18, rates for home ...
    2008-03-08 01:58:00

  • Fed to Make $200 Billion Available To Lenders

    Washington Post - Rates also have soared on bonds issued by the government-sponsored mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ... issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, trying to restore confidence to the market for home ...
    2008-03-08 02:41:00

  • Bankrate: A Topsy-Turvy Week for Mortgage Rates

    Forbes - NEW YORK, March 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Fixed mortgage rates posted a slight decrease in a wild up-and-down week, with the ... including mortgages, credit cards, new and used auto loans, money market accounts and CDs, checking and ATM fees, home ...
    2008-03-06 04:31:00

  • A new leaf

    Chicago Tribune - ... interest rates and rising property values to refinance their mortgages into a lower rate and many times rewarded themselves with extra cash, taking on a larger mortgage or opting for a home-quity loan or line of credit. Now, however, interest rates ...
    2008-03-06 04:31:00

  • Mexicans look home to purchase homes

    Herald Tribune - The divorced mother of two sold her Denver home after she could no longer afford the mortgage payments. ... Mortgage interest rates are higher in Mexico than in the United States, ranging from 9.5 percent to 14 percent ...
    2008-03-08 01:44:00

  • China Has Room to Raise Rates, Governor Zhou Says (Update3)

    Bloomberg - March 6 (Bloomberg) -- China's central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said he'll consider raising interest rates to tame the ... said it was necessary to remain ``flexible'' amid global uncertainties including the effects of the U.S. subprime mortgage ...
    2008-03-05 11:45:00

  • How should government respond on home foreclosures?

    Atlanta Journal Constitution - From oblivious lenders to deceptive mortgage brokers, from overly optimistic ... Association complains that these negotiations would drive up interest rates. ... The problem is that lender fraud accounts for only a fraction of home ...
    2008-03-08 02:48:00

  • Change the mortgage rules

    Los Angeles Times - ... behalf of borrowers who could afford to keep their homes if their interest rates ... In essence, the bills would let judges treat home mortgages the same way they do ... fiasco has already prompted regulators to demand a return to more cautious mortgage ...
    2008-03-07 11:57:00

  • Sharp Drop in Jobs Adds to Grim Picture of U.S. Economy (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    The worst fears of investors and officials were confirmed as paralysis on Wall Street collided with new evidence of a likely recession.
    2008-03-08 02:39:01

  • Consumer borrowing up in January (The Toledo Blade)

    WASHINGTON - Consumers increased their borrowing in January, especially relying on credit cards to finance their purchases.
    2008-03-08 02:54:39

  • U.S. job market continues shrinking (The Daily Review)

    WASHINGTON — If you can't stand your job, you'd probably be wise to grin and bear it for a while.
    2008-03-08 02:59:00

  • After more dismal news, the heat again is on Bernanke (The Globe and Mail)

    NEW YORK -- For Ben Bernanke, the embattled chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, life has come to resemble the hellish circularity of Groundhog Day: Each morning, he wakes to the same gloomy economic indicators, and each time he intervenes in an attempt to plug the leak, a larger one springs up in its place.
    2008-03-08 03:16:51

  • How to Teflon-coat your mortgage (Ararat Advertiser)

    The strategy To Teflon coat my mortgage. Do I need to do that? Even if you've been coping well to date, the Reserve Bank's nasty trend of lifting interest rates should indicate it's time to stop, think and review your borrowings. How would you cope with another rate rise? Another two?
    2008-03-08 03:19:04

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