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  • Featured PRFirm

    PRWeb - MF Digital introduces the 5907VL CD & DVD copier. “Price meets performance ... Close to 40 responded, indicating, among other things, a surprising interest in places ... in at 1,450.7 million euros, up 7.3% at constant consolidation and exchange rates ...
    2008-03-16 02:30:00
  • Tax form can help in divorce

    Los Angeles Times - Back when interest rates were ... slightly better rates. You also could squeeze out a little more interest by locking your money into certificates of deposit with different maturities, known as "laddering" your CDs. The average rate for a one-year CD is ...
    2008-03-16 12:04:00
  • BOE Paper: Emerging Mkts Vulnerable To Global Credit Crunch

    FXStreet.com - Furthermore, EMEs' strengthening economic and financial circumstances are partly due to robust global economic growth, low global real interest rates and consumer price inflation and high commodity prices.
    2008-03-16 05:08:00
  • Betting the Bank

    New York Times - Interest rates on government bonds are down — but financial chaos has made banks unwilling to take risks, and it’s getting ... The Rank-Link Imbalance 1,700 Bands, Rocking as the CD Industry Reels Report Urges Changes in Teaching Math News Analysis:
    2008-03-13 05:54:00
  • Capital One Launches High-Interest Online Savings Account

    PR Inside - Consumers get a great fixed rate (4.00% APY for 60 month term), with no fees to open or maintain the CD, and convenient ... The Online Savings Account is a wonderful choice for those who are interested in earning one of the best interest rates in the ...
    2008-03-16 11:49:00
  • Financial houses protected under bad policy (Portsmouth Herald)

    By Alex Epstein
    2008-03-16 03:13:34
  • Fruit smoothies in, ready meals out (Guardian Unlimited)

    Annual inflation shopping basket shakeup reflects growing 'café culture' with muffins and smoothies making a first appearance
    2008-03-17 06:43:12
  • Beware Clever New Real Estate Offers

    Street.Com - It does not charge an interest rate, like a reverse mortgage. Instead, you're granting them an "option" on a portion of ... You can find current rates for home equity loans, as well as other savings and loan rates, at BankingMyWay.com .) Remember ...
    2008-03-16 07:21:00
  • More housing woe: Mortgage lenders raise the bar on home loans

    Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - No lender is going to give them a new loan large enough to pay off their current mortgage. ... Mortgage interest rates have risen, as bond investors, worried about the economy, have fueled a rush into Treasury bonds, which ...
    2008-03-15 11:50:00
  • Global Markets Tumble

    Washington Post - A currency dealer works under an electronic board showing the current U.S. dollar ... Market players have been repeatedly let down which shows the subprime mortgage ... gloomy outlook for the American economy and prospects for lower interest rates.
    2008-03-17 04:35:00
  • Central Bank Offers Loans To Brokers, Cuts Key Rate Historic Steps

    Wall Street Journal - ... loans between banks, of a half to a full percentage point from its current 3%. ( See ... That has sent yields on risky securities such as mortgage-backed bonds up, dealing ... seemingly powerless to restore a willingness to lend by cutting interest rates ...
    2008-03-17 04:21:00
  • Wait, Weren’t These the Safer Bets?

    New York Times - And Thornburg, the nation’s second-largest independent mortgage company, after ... Although default rates for Alt-A debt are still low, investors who fear the worst ... The story of Alt-A and Thornburg also illustrates why the current credit crisis is ...
    2008-03-16 07:28:00
  • Fed Acts to Rescue Financial Markets

    New York Times - ... had been teetering near collapse because of its deepening losses in the mortgage ... gave 20 top investment banks 28-day loans at what amounted to wholesale rates ... Paulson Jr. , the current Treasury secretary, vigorously endorsed the Fed’s rescue ...
    2008-03-17 01:07:00
  • PMI Group Dips To Loss In Q4; Cuts Dividend [PMI]

    RTT News - ... written in its International operations combined with favorable Australian foreign exchange rates. ... that its board cut its regular quarterly dividend by $0.04 to $0.0125 per share in light of the current challenges in the U.S. housing and mortgage ...
    2008-03-17 05:04:00
  • Fed Is Expected to Cut Interest Rates

    Wall Street Journal - Fed Is Expected to Cut Interest Rates March 16, 2008 ... cut its target interest rate Tuesday, possibly to as low as 2.25% from the current 3 ... offer this week from a large U.K. hedge fund to pump new capital into the mortgage ...
    2008-03-16 07:06:00