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  • Personal Loans 2000 Market Assessment 2008 (Centre Daily Times)

    Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c92987) has announced the addition of "Personal Loans 2000 Market Assessment 2008" to their offering.
    2008-05-27 09:44:46
  • Senior center hosting legal discussion (Marshfield Mariner)

    Massachusetts Bar Association will present a legal discussion titled “Taking Control of Your Future” on Thursday, May 29, at the senior center, 230 Webster St. in Marshfield.
    2008-05-27 12:26:26
  • Subprime fallout spreads - Reuters

    1: Dec 14, 2006 Bear Stearns posts record earnings, touting huge profit gains from then-booming businesses advising on mergers and arranging credit derivatives, distressed debt and leveraged finance deals.
    2008-05-27 10:42:00
  • BlackRock More Selective in Buying Assets: Officials - CNBC

    Top officials at BlackRock say the big investment management firm continues explore major investments in distressed assets--such as its recent purchase of $15 billion in mortgage securities from UBS--but the company is becoming more selective in ...
    2008-05-27 08:33:00
  • Loan Auditor: Supervisors Covered Up Bad Loans - NPR News

    Morning Edition , May 27, 2008 · Now that millions of people are facing foreclosure because they got into loans that never should have been approved, everybody's looking for someone to blame. Borrowers, or their brokers, lied on loan applications ...
    2008-05-27 09:37:00
  • An Easy Way To Buy Your First Home? (The Motley Fool)

    Getting on the property ladder these days is no mean feat. But is there a helping hand?
    2008-05-27 08:52:55
  • The next Buffetts (Canadian Business)

    Anyone who thinks Warren Buffett is past his prime should have seen the world’s richest man tossing off one liners and charming the crowd at the Toronto Board of Trade earlier this year.
    2008-05-27 09:10:40
  • Fannie Mae Moves to Exclude: Bad Credit Scores Could Forever Deny Borrowers Home Loans (Louisiana Weekly)

    PORTLAND, Ore. (Special to the NNPA from The Skanner) - New lending guidelines proposed by the Federal National Mortgage Association - also known as Fannie Mae - would permanently lock out some minority homebuyers by denying loans based on credit scores.
    2008-05-27 09:22:28
  • These Banks Need to Raise Capital Quickly (TheStreet.com)

    TSC Ratings put together a list of institutions that are undercapitalized. Is yours at risk?
    2008-05-27 09:33:33
  • US new home sales rose unexpectedly in April (TurkishPress.com)

    Sales of new homes across the United States rose an unexpected 3.3 percent in April from the prior month, to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 526,000 homes, a government report showed Tuesday.
    2008-05-27 09:38:35
  • Squeezed Guardian Trust halts loans (The New Zealand Independent)

    Financial services and investment provider Guardian Trust, one of the country's oldest trustee companies, has ceased all mortgage lending citing property market uncertainty.
    2008-05-27 10:18:23
  • Bank of Montreal, Scotiabank Profits Slide on Loan Losses, Fees (Bloomberg.com)

    May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal , the first two Canadian banks to report second-quarter earnings, said profits fell after they set aside more money for bad loans and investment-banking fees plunged.
    2008-05-27 11:47:12
  • Bank of Canada Cuts Lending, Signaling End to Easing (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

    May 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Canada today said credit markets have improved enough to reduce emergency loans to financial institutions, indicating that policy makers may end their rate-cutting campaign as soon as next month.
    2008-05-27 11:47:31
  • RELATED ARTICLES (Cape May County Herald)

    D.C. | 3 min 40 sec ago | Comments 0 Recent news on inflation is not good. In the first quarter of this year, the Consumer Price Index posted its highest level in years.
    2008-05-27 11:51:47
  • Asda likely to offer mortgage services to customers - Banking Business Review

    The Times has reported that Asda is also likely to offer an estate agency service with local agents from 2008. Gev Lynott, director of new business at Asda, said: "We are in a tender process with three brokers. We want to give customers access to the ...
    2008-05-27 02:56:00