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  • Paulson: U.S. economy "has slowed way down"

    Xinhua News Agency - ... increasingly believe the spreading fallout from a severe credit crisis has pushed the United States into recession. The situation has led to record-high home foreclosures, forced financial companies to take multibillion losses from bad mortgage ...
    2008-03-17 01:22:00

  • Despite Fed's action, mortgage rates not dropping

    Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel - While banks eventually would be forced to take back the bad mortgage-backed debt, the plan ... They can use this time to fix any problems on their credit reports. That way, consumers are ready to act quickly if mortgage rates fall.
    2008-03-16 09:04:00

  • Asian stocks tumble as credit crisis deepens, dollar slumps UPDATE

    CNBC - ... Thomson Financial) - Asian markets tumbled Monday amid signs of a deepening credit ... the fifth-largest US investment bank and the one hit hardest by the subprime mortgage ... More bad news Equity markets are likely to stay volatile as more trouble is ...
    2008-03-17 12:24:00

  • J.P. Morgan Buys Bear in Fire Sale, As Fed Widens Credit to Avert ...

    Wall Street Journal - They stopped taking collateral on short-term lines of credit, even those backed by the highest-quality mortgage bonds backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie ... Analysts and investors still are bracing for more bad news as securities firms report earnings ...
    2008-03-16 10:01:00

  • Struggling with the home loan from hell

    New York Daily News - Instead, Scafiddi made a series of bad decisions that left him strapped for cash - and ... He got $27,000 from the refi, which he used to pay off most of the credit-card debt - and a more than $600 hike in his monthly mortgage payments.
    2008-03-16 10:23:00

  • Wall Street uneasy as more Fed moves loom

    Chicago Tribune - ... begins the new week trying to come to terms with just how bad the fallout from the credit crisis is—so bad ... they are more anxious than they've been in years; many didn't believe the credit crisis that began last year due to spiking mortgage defaults ...
    2008-03-16 11:49:00

  • Singapore shares sharply lower at midday on heightened credit woes

    Forbes - ... decline Friday as the bailout of Bear Stearns revealed a deepening global credit ... fifth-largest US investment bank, which was the hardest hit by the subprime mortgage ... Investors had to digest another bit of bad news after UK's Sunday Telegraph ...
    2008-03-16 10:23:00

  • How the credit crunch bit the banks

    Guardian Unlimited - Spring 2007: It is first reported that house prices are falling in the US and that the number of Americans defaulting on their mortgage payments is rising. June/July 2007: American mortgage lenders confess to handing out loans to individuals with bad ...
    2008-03-15 04:55:00

  • Living Within Our Means (Time Magazine)

    A new austerity beckons for the American consumer
    2008-03-17 01:07:20

  • Landlords find deals in housing crisis (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

    The U.S. housing crisis and credit crunch may end the American dream of property ownership for millions of people, but for landlords seeking bargain investment properties the market is looking up.
    2008-03-17 01:17:10

  • p0218 BC-JPMorgan-BearStearns 13thLd-Writethru 03-17 1259 (Hays Daily News)

    Eds: CORRECTS that Bear Stearns survived one world war, not two;. Moving on general news and financial services.
    2008-03-17 01:18:19

  • Should You Unlock Capital From Your Home? (The Motley Fool)

    Does it make sense to borrow more money against your home?
    2008-03-17 01:32:05

  • JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share (Washington Post)

    NEW YORK -- With a deal finally struck, JPMorgan Chase & Co. will embark on the tough task of absorbing Bear Stearns Cos., once among its biggest rivals on Wall Street.
    2008-03-17 01:46:26

  • Struggling with the home loan from hell (New York Daily News)

    Mike and Trudy Scafiddi just wanted to tap their home equity, but in a moment of weakness, they refinanced at 8.5%. Now they're struggling with the home loan from hell.
    2008-03-17 01:46:47

  • Is Fannie Mae the Next Government Bailout?

    Barron's Online - At year end, the company owned in its portfolio or had packaged and guaranteed some $2.8 trillion of mortgages or 23% of all U ... And those accounting moves should reverse and fatten earnings in the fullness of time once interest rates stop dropping. But ...
    2008-03-09 05:59:00

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