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  • How Hillary Turned it Around - TIME

    How Hillary Turned it AroundTIME - 1 hour agoHer speech Tuesday night was less about her and more about the voters: the ones who have lost their mortgages, who can't afford health care and can't get ...
    2008-01-09 10:01:49
  • 2ND UPDATE: Regulators Probe MBIA As It Seeks To Rebuild Its Capital - CNNMoney.com

    2ND UPDATE: Regulators Probe MBIA As It Seeks To Rebuild Its CapitalCNNMoney.com - 1 hour agoMore than $600 million of that is from securities backed by home equity lines of credit and second-lien mortgages that were insured by MBIA . ...
    2008-01-09 10:53:00
  • Couple renovates neighbourhood in North Carolina, one house at a time - The Canadian Press

    Couple renovates neighbourhood in North Carolina, one house at a timeThe Canadian Press - 59 minutes agoWhile Bowden seems willing to have five mortgages at the same time - their house, the house being renovated, two rentals and a house in reserve - Frelke is ...
    2008-01-09 11:00:50
  • Countrywide Home Loan Delinquencies Rise - The Associated Press

    Countrywide Home Loan Delinquencies RiseThe Associated Press - 59 minutes agos shares tumbled for the second day Wednesday after the nation's largest mortgage lender said the delinquency and foreclosure rate of home loans in its ...
    2008-01-09 11:01:08
  • What American Workers Deserve is Fair Trade, Not Free Trade - The Daily Scare

    What American Workers Deserve is Fair Trade, Not Free TradeThe Daily Scare, OH - 39 minutes agoThe second most fundamental practice which constitutes Globalization, namely the free flow of capital, has likewise been an issue during this same period. ...
    2008-01-09 11:20:14
  • Countrywide says foreclosures highest on record - Guardian Unlimited

    Countrywide says foreclosures highest on recordGuardian Unlimited, UK - 1 minute agoCountrywide said the foreclosure rate for the 9.03 million mortgages on which it collects and processes payments doubled to 1.44 percent from 0.70 percent a ...
    2008-01-09 11:58:49
  • Couple renovates neighbourhood in North Carolina, one house at a time (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

    RALEIGH, N.C. - Conversations with Doug Frelke and Kim Bowden can take some unusual twists, such as this one:
    2008-01-09 10:57:00
  • How Hillary Turned it Around (Time Magazine)

    A good ground game in New Hampshire helped. So did a new message. But the real change came from Clinton herself
    2008-01-09 11:05:48
  • Bank of America's Countrywide trap (CNN Money)

    Late last summer, Bank of America and its deal-hungry chief Kenneth Lewis won kudos for a $2 billion investment in Countrywide Financial, the once high-flying mortgage lender hit hard by the housing slump.
    2008-01-09 11:08:23
  • Raising capital likely tougher this year (CanadaIT.com)

    After another record-breaking year for raising capital in 2007, private equity funds are in for a much tougher slog this year due to continuing effects of the credit market collapse.
    2008-01-09 11:09:28
  • Couple renovates neighbourhood in North Carolina, one house at a time (CNews)

    "Which house are you renovating now: the one where prostitutes lived or the crack house?" The couple, married for three years, have renovated four homes in their neighbourhood and are starting their fifth.
    2008-01-09 11:12:24
  • Mortgage refinancing applications increase (Philly.com)

    Applications for mortgage refinancing climbed 53.9 percent last week as fixed interest rates continued to fall, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported this morning.
    2008-01-09 11:15:46
  • Extrication Time at Bear Stearns (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    James E. Cayne ended his tumultuous 14-year run as chief executive of the battered Bear Stearns, passing the baton to Alan D. Schwartz.
    2008-01-09 11:39:17
  • US stocks retreat amid recession fears

    MSN MoneyCentral - ... rose in early trade after DuPont's earnings guidance cheered investors only to ... The prospect of further interest rate and tax cuts were a comfort for traders on ... with Countrywide Financial falling 9.7 per cent to $4.94 after the mortgage lender ...
    2008-01-09 10:39:00
  • Australian shoppers could tip interest rate scales

    News.com.au - ... love of shopping has stepped up pressure on the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates ... sales up 1.9 per cent in November, seasonally adjusted, and the ACT was the only ... Higher mortgage repayments are already a reality for some after ANZ and National ...
    2008-01-09 06:00:00