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  • Stocks Finish Higher in Late Rally (Bay News 9 Tampa Bay)

    By TIM PARADIS NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street finished a back-and-forth session sharply higher Wednesday as investors sought bargains while also contending with concerns about the strength of the economy and upcoming corporate results.
    2008-01-09 04:15:01

  • Top Australian Banks Disclose $1 Billion Exposure To U.S. Subprime Market (Nasdaq)

    (RTTNews) - Australia's top four banking groups say they have A$1 billion in collective direct exposure to the U.S. sub-prime mortgage market.
    2008-01-09 04:15:09

  • Countrywide's Delinquent Loans Surge, Stock Drops (CBS 2 Los Angeles)

    Countrywide Financial reports the percentage of borrowers who missed payments on home loans rose last month, signaling worsening trouble for the nation's largest mortgage lender and for the entire mortgage sector. The company, based in Calabasas, also reported today that it funded $23.5 billion in loans in December -- a steep decline from $42.8 billion in the year-ago period.
    2008-01-09 04:15:59

  • Decision: Former Prosecutor Won't Be Charged (KHBS - KHOG Fort Smith - Fayetteville)

    A special prosecutor has decided no charges will be filed against a former Sebastian County prosecutor accused of sexual abuse.
    2008-01-09 04:21:19

  • Grand Jury Indicts Man In Crash That Killed 5 (WBAL-TV Baltimore)

    A Michigan man is indicted on new charges in a crash in Toledo that killed a mother and four children.
    2008-01-09 04:23:39

  • (AFX UK Focus) 2008-01-10 00:20 GMT: December retail sales seen as tepid (Interactive Investor)

    NEW YORK (AP) - Most of the nation's major retailers are slated to report tepid sales gains for December on Thursday, likely making the holiday shopping season the weakest since 2002.
    2008-01-09 04:26:36

  • Suspect In Hiker's Death Eyed In Fla. Case (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta)

    The man accused in the kidnapping and killing of a hiker in Georgia is now a suspect in a killing in Florida, authorities say.
    2008-01-09 04:27:10

  • Is Ben Bernanke too nice for the job?

    International Herald Tribune - Their quarrel is partly with the Fed's reluctance to cut interest rates even more than it already has. But mostly those on Wall ... from top-down policy making and toward actions and statements that reflect the differing views of the Fed's 10 current ...
    2008-01-09 02:57:00

  • Bond default rates still at record lows -- for now

    Finance Asia - ... the low point of the current default rate cycle as several issuers have missed interest payments in recent weeks," says Moody’s director of corporate default research, Kenneth Emery. “This should translate into upward pressure on default rates as ...
    2008-01-09 02:07:00

  • Goldman Sachs predicts recession in 2008

    MSNBC - Goldman Sachs sees recession in 2008 Wall Street firm expects Fed to slash interest rates to 2.5 ... force the Fed to lower policy rates by an additional 1.75 percentage points from the current 4.25 percent. Starting in September, the Fed cut rates ...
    2008-01-09 11:22:00

  • Goldman Sees Brief US Recession, Trims Rate Forecast To 2.5%

    CNN Money - The economists expect the Federal Reserve to respond to that by cutting interest rates aggressively, bringing the overnight target rate for borrowing between banks to 2.5% by late 2008 from its current 4.25%, according to Goldman. Consumer spending ...
    2008-01-09 08:30:00

  • Goldman Says Recession Near

    Street.Com - ... it expects a recession in the U.S. this year and predicting that the Federal Reserve will continue decreasing interest rates in a ... Because of the slowdown, the Fed will likely have to lower its fed funds target rate to 2.5% from the current 4.25%. The ...
    2008-01-09 02:28:00

  • Chilean Stocks Tumble on Inflation, Pension Selloff (Update3)

    Bloomberg - ... higher interest rates and a ... the Ipsa's current 10-week slide, Brazil's Bovespa index has fallen fell 4.3 percent while the MSCI Latin American equities index slid 8.2 percent. Wrong Direction Unlike 2002, interest rates in ...
    2008-01-09 11:58:00

  • How a charity can hurt its cause

    Christian Science Monitor - Current credit-card interest rates average more than 13 percent. Nearly all the credit-card companies raise cardholders' interest rates when payments are late – without telling them when it happens, in most cases. About 1.3 ...
    2008-01-09 09:06:00

  • 'Inexperienced' Swan returns Costello's rates fire

    Big Pond News - ... in rates last year [were] caused directly by the subprime mortgage crisis and Peter Costello can't admit that he's got any responsibility for our current situation. "Peter Costello should be the last person lecturing people about interest rates."
    2008-01-09 02:57:00

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