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  • UCSD Study: Social Pressure Can Get Smokers To Quit (KGTV San Diego)

    Social pressure plays a key role in getting smokers to break the habit, a newly released University of California, San Diego study concludes.
    2008-01-09 04:32:20
  • How Do You Spell 'Crisis'? MBIA

    Forbes - Home Business Tech Markets Entrepreneurs Leadership Personal Finance ForbesLife Lists Opinions Video Blogs E-mail Newsletters People ... Mortgage insurers, along with lenders, continue to be hammered by investors who aren't confident that last year's subprime ...
    2008-01-09 02:21:00
  • U.S. Stocks Gain Most in 2 Weeks, Led by Technology, Financials

    Bloomberg - Banks and brokerages fell as much as 2.3 percent earlier today after Countrywide Financial Corp., the biggest U.S. mortgage company, said foreclosures are rising. Berkshire Support Banks also rose after Bear Stearns won't take ...
    2008-01-09 03:47:00
  • Baltimore sues Wells Fargo after home loans fail

    Des Moines Register - The city of Baltimore sued Wells Fargo & Co. Tuesday over what it claims are racially biased mortgage lending practices that have led to widespread home foreclosures. Maryland's largest city claimed that Wells Fargo made loans to people who couldn't ...
    2008-01-09 08:02:00
  • HomEq Servicing Joins with NeighborWorks(R) America to Help Prevent ...

    Forbes - Business Wire - Press Release HomEq Servicing Joins with NeighborWorks(R) America to Help Prevent Home Foreclosure 01.09.08 ... America is pleased to announce that HomEq Servicing has joined other leading members of the financial, mortgage, insurance and ...
    2008-01-09 12:05:00
  • Breaking-up with your bank should be easy

    News.com.au - The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, has come out forcefully in admonishing ANZ over its latest, larger than expected, rise in home mortgage interest rates. He called the 0.2 per cent rise by the ANZ excessive, even allowing for pressures from exposure to the ...
    2008-01-09 02:57:00
  • E*Trade Sells $3 Billion of Mortgage, Municipal Bonds (Update6)

    Bloomberg - Burton joined E*Trade at the end of last year from Wachovia Corp., where he was head of mortgage banking and home-equity lending. `Important Steps' ``We have taken important steps in the execution of our turnaround plan by ...
    2008-01-09 01:31:00
  • U.S. home builder shares fall on lending concerns

    Reuters - More Company News... BOSTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. home builders tumbled to fresh five-year lows on Wednesday as investors worried that rising defaults at mortgage lenders could further hurt home sales. The slide came a day after No. 5 ...
    2008-01-09 01:52:00
  • Mortgage refinancing applications rose 53.9% last week

    Philadelphia Inquirer - ... as a positive sign. "If rates continue to come down - which I think they will - I think there will be a great opportunity for borrowers to refinance into near or historically low interest rates," said Brett Warren, president of Buyer's Home Mortgage ...
    2008-01-09 01:24:00
  • Tui travels downwards in a nervous market - Times Online

    Tui travels downwards in a nervous marketTimes Online, UK - 1 hour agoNew York: Stocks endured a seesaw morning as fears of recession weighed down manufacturing and weakening signs in the mortgage market hurt the financial ...
    2008-01-09 03:20:41
  • Cheviot rehabs $1 home - Cincinnati Enquirer

    Cheviot rehabs $1 homeCincinnati Enquirer, OH - 1 hour agoAt mid-year, according to a survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association, 3.6 percent of Ohio’s mortgages were in foreclosure. That was the highest rate in ...
    2008-01-09 03:22:10
  • Average home price to hit $1 mill in '08 - Rocky Mountain Outlook

    Average home price to hit $1 mill in '08Rocky Mountain Outlook, Canada - 1 hour agoCanada Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC), on the other hand, forecast Calgary to have a 7.7 per cent increase in 2008. The data does not necessarily reflect ...
    2008-01-09 03:23:42
  • Ocean shipping: Port Tracker report says December retail container ... - Logistics Management

    Ocean shipping: Port Tracker report says December retail container ...Logistics Management, MA - 54 minutes agoAnd coupled with ongoing economic challenges like oil prices rising, a weak job market, the credit crunch and home mortgage crisis, there will be ...
    2008-01-09 03:34:36
  • E*Trade Fails to Sway the Skeptics - BusinessWeek

    E*Trade Fails to Sway the SkepticsBusinessWeek - 38 minutes agoWhile most of the worst debt has been unloaded, investors are still closely watching the $12 billion in home equity loans that E*Trade owns. ...
    2008-01-09 03:50:53
  • Dollar Higher Ahead of ECB/BOE Meetings - FXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market

    Dollar Higher Ahead of ECB/BOE MeetingsFXstreet.com The Foreign Exchange Market, Spain - 37 minutes agoCanadian new-home starts unexpectedly slowed to an annual rate of 187500 units in December, from a revised pace of 233300 units in November, Canada Mortgage ...
    2008-01-09 03:51:40