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  • New Home Sales Took Record Fall in 2007 - The Associated Press

    New Home Sales Took Record Fall in 2007The Associated Press - 1 hour agoAlso adding to the problems facing prospective sellers is the rising tide of mortgage defaults, which are dumping more homes on an already glutted market. ...
    2008-01-28 05:20:45
  • Grant the Great - Ludwig von Mises Institute

    Grant the GreatLudwig von Mises Institute, AL - 1 hour agoIn such happy circumstances, a calculating human will take out a bigger mortgage, build a bigger hedge fund or attempt a gaudier corporate buyout. ...
    2008-01-28 05:24:47
  • HSBC offers mortgages in Japan with no maximum lending limit - The Asian Banker (subscription)

    HSBC offers mortgages in Japan with no maximum lending limitThe Asian Banker (subscription), Singapore - 43 minutes ago... what is known as a balance-offset mortgage. Using this option, the rate of interest is calculated based on the difference between the total balance of ...
    2008-01-28 05:42:51
  • Eurozone lending rises - Financial Times

    Eurozone lending risesFinancial Times, UK - 29 minutes agoMortgage lending growth, at 7.1 per cent, slowed in December to the lowest annual rate since records began in 2000 - suggesting that the cooling-off in ...
    2008-01-28 05:57:16
  • Hotline offers help from foreclosure - Appleton Post Crescent

    Hotline offers help from foreclosureAppleton Post Crescent,  USA - 28 minutes agoIn some instances, foundation representatives will talk to a client’s lender about setting up different payment plans or refinancing a mortgage. ...
    2008-01-28 05:57:51
  • IMF calls: More government spending please - Crikey (subscription)

    IMF calls: More government spending pleaseCrikey (subscription), Australia - 28 minutes agoDominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the IMF, declared at the weekend that the intensifying credit crunch is so severe that lower interest rates ...
    2008-01-28 05:58:17
  • NS pension with big hedge fund exposure improves from summer results - The Canadian Press

    NS pension with big hedge fund exposure improves from summer resultsThe Canadian Press - 25 minutes ago"At 6.04 per cent, it's not a terrible year, but it's a little less than what we need the rates of return to be for our current combination of contributions ...
    2008-01-28 06:00:43
  • How the Major Stock Market Indexes Fared - Forbes

    How the Major Stock Market Indexes FaredForbes, NY - 9 minutes ago... mortgage crises are causing a recession, it also raised hopes that the Fed might cut rates again by a wide margin to strengthen the flagging economy. ...
    2008-01-28 06:16:40
  • Crist Optimistic Even After Voter Tells Him Tax Cut's Not Enough - Local10.com

    Crist Optimistic Even After Voter Tells Him Tax Cut's Not EnoughLocal10.com, FL - 3 minutes agoAs he arrived, St. Petersburg resident Michelle Butler, 33, confronted him, saying it would do little to help her afford her mortgage payments. ...
    2008-01-28 06:22:42
  • Rate hikes to bring better deposit returns (Southern Highland News)

    Higher interest rates translate into hip-pocket pain for borrowers but can also mean higher yields for deposit accounts however, you do have to shop around.
    2008-01-28 05:59:22
  • Hotline offers help from foreclosure (The Appleton Post-Crescent)

    NEENAH State officials dont want any residents to lose their homes.
    2008-01-28 06:00:46
  • IMF calls: More government spending please (Crikey)

    As Labor's ministerial razor gang plods along with the business of cutting spending to increase the size of Australia's budget surplus, the head of that very economically conservative body the International Monetary Fund is calling on governments to loosen the purse strings.
    2008-01-28 06:02:16
  • Diversify and beat retirement cash blues (Stuff)

    Dorothy, 59, is a lifestyle block owner from Lower Hutt who aims to stay on her land as long as possible and lead a simple country life.
    2008-01-28 06:15:08
  • Record fall for new home sales in '07 (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

    WASHINGTON -- New-home sales plunged in 2007 by the largest amount on record while home prices tumbled sharply in December. Analysts forecast more trouble in 2008 as housing tries to emerge from its worst slump in more than two decades.
    2008-01-28 06:20:22
  • Crist Optimistic Even After Voter Tells Him Tax Cut's Not Enough (WJXT Jacksonville)

    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Gov. Charlie Crist maintained his cheery optimism that a property tax relief proposal would pass, even after a woman approached him Monday on a street corner to say she's against the measure because it doesn't cut enough.
    2008-01-28 06:25:08