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• Banking on her community

  Pioneer Press - Mortgage companies have taken the baton and do the bulk of mortgage lending," Snyder said. "But in North Minneapolis, there is much less of a bank presence ... as a result, predatory lending practices creep in.
  2008-02-22 03:59:00

• QBE Insurance Shares Fall Most Since 2001 WTC Attacks (Update2)

  Bloomberg - Chief Executive Officer Frank O'Halloran is acquiring companies overseas to support growth and agreed in January to buy U.S ... company's A$23 billion fixed-interest and cash portfolio does not include any direct investments in U.S. subprime mortgage ...
  2008-02-25 09:54:00

• Retailers’ results reflect tough times

  Globe and Mail - Today could determine where the shares of Target Corp. and Macy’s Inc. go from here, as both companies are set to roll out ... then, investors are only too well aware of the headwinds the department stores face, not the least of which are the mortgage ...
  2008-02-25 07:30:00

• Goldman, Lehman May Discover They Haven't Dodged Credit Crisis

  Bloomberg - ... potential losses: so-called variable interest entities that allow financial firms to keep assets such as subprime-mortgage ... biggest bond insurer, and two smaller competitors lost a AAA rating from at least one of the three major ratings companies in ...
  2008-02-25 09:11:00

• AAA Oligopoly

  Wall Street Journal - What happens when the feds license only a few companies to provide a service, and then require investors to buy that service? ... In part because they believed the faulty ratings that S&P and Moody's once assigned to mortgage-backed securities.
  2008-02-25 07:30:00

• In U.S. mortgage mess, government wrestles with question of bailout ...

  International Herald Tribune - But as losses from bad mortgages and mortgage-backed securities climb past $200 billion, talk among banking executives about ... It would mostly benefit banks and Wall Street companies that earned huge fees by packaging trillions of dollars in risky ...
  2008-02-24 04:01:00

• BLACK HISTORY MONTH

  San Francisco Gate - The law prohibited discrimination in most privately financed housing, and outlawed racial discrimination by banks, real estate brokers and mortgage companies.
  2008-02-24 03:57:00

• Stock slump fires up investor anger

  Seattle Times - Activist investors are targeting financial-services companies, including Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Seattle-based Washington Mutual. Shareholder proposals demand that major banks better disclose mortgage-related risks, that Wall Street investment ...
  2008-02-24 12:05:00

• Arson: Tool for revenge

  Charlotte Sun-Herald - Most people's mortgages are tied to their insurance companies, and if your mortgage isn't getting paid, you don't have insurance," Venzeio said.
  2008-02-25 09:18:00

• Tips for filing as head of household

  Baltimore Sun - ... SC&H Group , leads the income tax department, providing tax compliance and consulting services to private and public companies ... For example, I mailed a check to my mortgage lender three days before the end of the year.
  2008-02-25 10:01:00

• States May Seek Congress's Aid as Subprime Fallout Boosts Costs

  Bloomberg - ... New York's Eliot Spitzer may ask Congress to help reverse rising municipal debt costs stemming from the subprime mortgage ... as much as fourfold this month as investors shunned the debt or demanded higher yields on waning confidence in the companies ...
  2008-02-25 10:15:00

• Cerberus problems deepen

  Windsor Star - NEW YORK - Cerberus Capital Management LP, the brash private equity firm named for a demonic dog, has been humbled in recent weeks by woes at two of its larger investments, automaker Chrysler and auto and mortgage lender GMAC. Those companies ...
  2008-02-25 10:51:00

• Bad Numbers

  Washington Post - The figure suggests that the subprime mortgage crisis may have metastasized into a general housing crisis -- long before the ... goes against both the short-term economic interest and the institutional culture of loan servicers, the collection companies ...
  2008-02-25 10:08:00

• Why banks are kicking the bottom rung out of the property ladder

  Guardian Unlimited - The disappearance of companies that offer keenly competitive mortgage deals is being seized on by lenders that are determined to preserve their profit margins.
  2008-02-25 04:03:00

• NY attorney general near Fannie, Freddie deal

  Boston Globe - A spokeswoman for the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, the mortgage finance companies' federal regulator, said discussions of a possible settlement were ongoing.
  2008-02-25 11:05:00

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