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Yesterday: 2010-02-07

The latest mortgage articles are presented below, with older discoveries located in the mortgage news archive.

  • State Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation shuts down 'fake ... - MLive.com

    In a statement released today, Michigan's Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation says it has handed a cease and desist order to a man the office claims is a "fake" mortgage broker. The Web site www.kennethdoylemortgage.com was shut down after ...
    2010-02-03 05:52:00
  • The Principal Financial Group Earnings Conference Call (Q4 2009) - YAHOO!

    Principal Financial Group, Inc. provides retirement savings, investment, and insurance products and services worldwide. It operates in four segments: U.S. Asset Accumulation, Global Asset Management, International Asset Management and Accumulation ...
    2010-02-08 05:54:00
  • Goldman's payment demands on AIG probed: Report - Business Insurance

    NEW YORK (Reuters)—U.S. regulators are investigating whether the mortgage insurance market was improperly distressed in 2008 because of payment demands that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and other banks made on American International Group Inc., The New ...
    2010-02-08 11:13:00
  • How troubled mortgage insurer Radian redeemed itself - Philadelphia Inquirer

    In 2001, it bought Enhance Financial Services Group Inc. for $528 million. That expanded Radian's business into the insurance of municipal bonds and other securities. The firm's mortgage unit also started working directly on Wall Street, writing ...
    2010-02-05 03:05:00
  • CREA forecasts record home market this year - The Province

    Canadian real estate sales and prices are poised to set records this year, according to a new forecast that is bound to reignite calls in some quarters for tighter lending rules. The Canadian Real Estate Association, which represents 100 boards ...
    2010-02-08 07:34:00
  • The Fraser Institute: Canada Should Follow Australian Model and Leave ... - Market Wire

    TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 8, 2010) - Government intervention in the mortgage insurance market is exposing Canadian taxpayers to enormous potential liabilities if Canada were to be hit with a mortgage default crisis similar to what occurred ...
    2010-02-08 05:29:00
  • Stock market fortune reverses - Nigerian Compass

    Nigerian CompassStock market fortune reversesNigerian CompassThe Insurance sub-sector followed on the sectoral chart with traded volume of 39.6 million shares valued at N42.1 million done in 435 deals, while Mortgage ...
    2010-02-08 05:43:00
  • Republicans and the Populist Temptation - Wall Street Journal

    Republicans and the Populist TemptationWall Street Journal... unionization "card check," mortgage "cramdown," and health-insurance nationalization would become law as soon as votes could be taken. ...and more »
    2010-02-08 06:06:23
  • Field Fisher Waterhouse > Tax Update Bank Payroll Tax - Linex Legal (registration)

    Field Fisher Waterhouse > Tax Update Bank Payroll TaxLinex Legal (registration)HMRC have given an example of arranging a regulated mortgage contract which, although not itself a relevant regulated activity, is in their view indirectly ...
    2010-02-08 06:07:02
  • Goldman's Response to the New York Times - Huffington Post (blog)

    Goldman's Response to the New York TimesHuffington Post (blog)... the insurer to provide credit insurance, the investment banks could not have generated some of its enormous profits betting against the mortgage market. ...and more »
    2010-02-08 06:20:03
  • Manage stress and save your home - Gladstone Observer

    Manage stress and save your homeGladstone ObserverMortgage stress is a scary experience, but not half as frightening or expensive as being forced to sell your home, rent elsewhere and re-buy when your ...
    2010-02-08 07:17:25
  • Credit crunch villains get their parole - Independent

    Credit crunch villains get their paroleIndependentHe was the outsider chief executive brought in to steady Merrill Lynch as it tottered under sub-prime mortgage investments gone wrong, and he sold the ...and more »
    2010-02-08 07:21:12
  • Lehman ruling creates new doubts for CDOs - Financial Times

    Lehman ruling creates new doubts for CDOsFinancial TimesMuch of that is due to the poor mortgage underwriting which prevailed at that time. In other words, these CDOs proved to be among the most toxic of toxic ...and more »
    2010-02-08 07:32:33
  • VA became vet's enemy - Palm Beach Post

    VA became vet's enemyPalm Beach PostHe missed mortgage payments and nearly lost his home. The stress and anxiety made his illness even worse. "I was shocked and disappointed," he says. ...
    2010-02-08 07:33:48
  • Do not pay the ferryman until he securitises your risk factor - Financial Times

    Do not pay the ferryman until he securitises your risk factorFinancial TimesToday, most people would be very surprised to know exactly who ultimately put up the funding for their mortgage. ...and more »
    2010-02-08 07:37:16