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  • New rules put spotlight on insurance-fee splits

    Chicago Tribune - WASHINGTON - A seemingly arcane policy change by mortgage investor Freddie Mac sheds new light on issues of much broader concern for consumers: Do you understand where the money is flowing when you take out a mortgage and pay thousands of dollars in ...
    2008-03-11 05:57:00
  • Radian Files Form 10-K

    MSN MoneyCentral - ... particular, further deterioration in the housing, mortgage and related credit markets, which would harm our future consolidated results of operations and, if more severe than our current predictions, could cause losses for our mortgage insurance ...
    2008-03-14 02:40:00
  • A Legal Maneuver That Could Keep Property in the Family (Washington Post)

    SCIN. No, it's not the stuff that covers our bodies. It's a complex legal and financial transaction, but it may be of interest to elderly homeowners and their families.
    2008-03-14 02:06:37
  • (AFX UK Focus) 2008-03-14 21:03 GMT: Fed chairman vows to help homeowners (Interactive Investor)

    WASHINGTON (AP) - 0314dv--bernanke--economy
    2008-03-14 02:28:10
  • Radian Files Form 10-K (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

    Radian Group Inc. today announced the filing of its 2007 Annual Report on Form 10-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
    2008-03-14 02:44:00
  • Reuters Business Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)

    Fed comes to Bear Stearns' rescue; shares dive
    2008-03-14 02:53:30
  • Fed comes to Bear Stearns' rescue; shares dive (The Globe and Mail)

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bear Stearns, slammed by a sudden cash crunch, hammered out an emergency funding deal with the Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase, intensifying fears the global credit crisis will claim more victims and driving Bear's shares down by as much as half.
    2008-03-14 03:16:31
  • Trustees select Graeff to lead schools (Ramona Sentinel)

    Maureen Robertson 14.MAR.08 Intelligent, creative, student-focused, visionary, personable, talented, dedicated. Those are a sample of words school officials use to describe Dr. Robert Graeff, soon to be Ramona Unified School District’s new superintendent.
    2008-03-14 03:28:59
  • Have 'gold bugs' finally won the respect of mainstream investors?

    Marketwatch - Many investors, including Schiff, believe the trend ushered in the U.S. housing bubble and encouraged the type of irrational lending behavior by mortgage lenders and the credit crisis.
    2008-03-14 01:14:00
  • Malaysian shares open lower on Wall Street's fall, profit-taking

    Forbes - ... Thomson Financial) - Malaysian shares opened lower on Thursday, snapping a two-day winning streak as investors took profits after US stocks fell overnight on fears the Federal Reserve's latest move to help struggling banks and mortgage lenders may ...
    2008-03-11 05:57:00
  • Bear Stearns Gets Emergency Funds From JPMorgan, Fed (Update5)

    Bloomberg - Bear Stearns led Wall Street shares lower this year as the world's largest lenders and securities firms wrote down assets linked to the subprime mortgage market.
    2008-03-14 01:50:00
  • Activists target boards amid mortgage fallout

    Reuters South Africa - ... angry over the mortgage market meltdown are deploying what may be one of the strongest weapons in their arsenal: opposing corporate directors up for re-election.
    2008-03-14 12:45:00
  • Timeline of Bear Stearns' troubles

    CNBC - ... itself unable to meet the demands of lenders and customers trying to pull their cash out. The following is a timeline of recent events at the 84-year-old firm:
    2008-03-14 10:51:00
  • Latest Trouble Spot for Banks: Souring Home-Equity Loans

    Wall Street Journal - Here comes another headache for banks suffering from the mortgage downturn: Losses on home-equity loans are soaring, even at some lenders that avoided big blunders on subprime loans. When times were good, banks raked in billions of dollars in profit ...
    2008-03-12 01:02:00
  • UK Budget does little to help housing, mortgage market in short term ...

    Forbes - ... The measures in the UK Budget presented today by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling may provide benefits to the housing and mortgage market in the long term, but do little to alleviate immediate problems, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said
    2008-03-12 08:37:00