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  • Can you insure against higher mortgage rates?

    Times Online - Melanie Bien of Savills Private Finance, a broker, said: “In the current climate trackers are so much more expensive than fixes that borrowers would be better off in most cases with the latter. Even if tracker rates come down, official interest ...
    2008-03-15 05:02:00

  • Industrial Production Falls

    Forbes - ... underscore the severity of the current economic slowdown. The Federal Reserve moved aggressively over the weekend to keep a crisis in financial markets from spreading and Fed officials are expected to follow with another sizable cut in interest rates ...
    2008-03-17 06:37:00

  • Fitch: Underwriters Struggle to Move U.S. Loan Inventories

    Forbes - The current credit market downturn has made it considerably more difficult for ... Fitch Ratings believes this could result in rising default rates over the course ... Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall ...
    2008-03-17 06:51:00

  • ECB calls main refi, says banks require 178.5 bln eur to meet reserve ...

    CNBC - This "benchmark" allotment figure takes account of banks' current account holdings with national central banks and ... Bids with the highest interest rates will be satisfied first and bids with successively lower interest rates will be accepted ...
    2008-03-17 07:55:00

  • US Q4 current account deficit unexpectedly narrows to 172.9 bln UPDATE

    CNBC - ... and additional details) WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - The US current account ... US fell to 203.5 bln usd from 205.7 bln, due to decreases in dividend and interest ... investing in the US will diminish with the conditions of the Fed reducing rates ...
    2008-03-17 08:17:00

  • UPDATE 4-Banks scramble for BoE funds as crisis worsens

    Reuters - Its trade-weighted index was on track to record its weakest close since March 1997 even before the current Labour government came into power. The BoE said it wanted to bring overnight interest rates down.
    2008-03-17 09:36:00

  • Why lower interest rates may not solve this

    Daily Telegraph - In other words the primary issue is one of capitalization, and not about the level of interest rates. ... There are no easy remedies to the current malaise, and much pain will have to be endured.
    2008-03-17 03:59:00

  • ECB speakers focus on prices, business as usual

    Forbes - ECB policymakers stuck to the script which has accompanied their nine-month freeze of key interest rates, indicating little chance of a speedy cut from the current 4.0 percent level.
    2008-03-17 08:38:00

  • NORTH BAY APARTMENTS: Rents rising in hot market for apartments (North Bay Business Journal)

    NORTH BAY – The North Bay apartment rental market continues to sizzle with rising rents in both Marin and Sonoma counties and a significant tightening of occupancy rates in Marin County.
    2008-03-17 09:33:17

  • Bush plea for calm as bank crisis sparks global panic and stock market faces 'worst crisis in living memory' (Evening Standard)

    The stock market was gripped by the worst crisis in living memory today as it plummeted by 200 points thanks to the fallout after the dramatic buy-out of investment bank Bear Stearns.
    2008-03-17 09:38:37

  • JPMorgan Surges After Capturing Bear Stearns for $240 Million (Bloomberg.com)

    March 17 (Bloomberg) -- JPMorgan Chase & Co. surged in New York trading after striking a deal backed by the Federal Reserve to buy Bear Stearns Cos. for $2 a share, 90 percent less than the 85-year old firm's market value last week.
    2008-03-17 09:40:14

  • U.S. Economy: Factory Production Contracts More Than Forecast (Bloomberg.com)

    March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Industrial production in the U.S. dropped more than forecast in February as the economic slump deepened even before the crisis in financial markets intensified.
    2008-03-17 09:40:34

  • Currency report: Nails in the coffin (Warsaw Business Journal)

    Though speculators had a hard time on the EUR/USD market, with falls reaching the level of 1.5531, it has to be mentioned that the increase trend on this market is far from over.
    2008-03-17 09:41:16

  • Education And Careers (Grayson County News-Gazette)

    (ARA) - Want to make more money in your current job? Tired of what you've been doing and want to pursue a different career track altogether? If so, what's holding you back? For most people it's time -- specifically the lack of it.
    2008-03-17 09:42:30

  • (AFX UK Focus) 2008-03-17 16:21 GMT: European govt bonds stay higher on expectations of more Fed rate cuts (Interactive Investor)

    LONDON (Thomson Financial) - European government bonds remained higher, mostly in the shorter-date maturities, on the view that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again tomorrow by up to 100 basis points.
    2008-03-17 09:44:22

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