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• Bernanke Fails to Cut Rates for Most Americans With Easy Credit

  Bloomberg - The group's index of applications to buy a home and refinance a loan fell 23 percent to 822.8 in the week ended Feb. 15, the biggest drop since July 2003 when it fell 24 percent when rates climbed more than a percentage point.
  2008-02-26 06:29:00

• U.S. Home Foreclosures Jump 90% as Mortgages Reset (Update1)

  Bloomberg - U.S. home prices fell last year for the first time since the Great Depression. That made it more difficult for homeowners to sell or refinance properties encumbered by mortgages that may be higher than the value of the houses themselves.
  2008-02-26 03:59:00

• Refinance or Abandon

  Earthtimes - DALLAS, TX -- 02/26/08 -- In spite of mortgage rates hovering around a 5-year low, thousands of troubled homeowners believe their only choice is to flee their home and face foreclosure. But with such inviting interest rates why are homeowners ...
  2008-02-26 07:41:00

• Should Feds Fix the Housing Market 'Failure'?

  US News and World Report - Former Fed Vice Chairman Alan Blinder, for instance, proposes creating a $300 billion 21st-century version of the New Deal-era Home Owners Loan Corp. to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages.
  2008-02-24 03:57:00

• Vornado's Profit Declines on Macklowe Loan Expense (Update3)

  Bloomberg - Macklowe is seeking to refinance $7 billion of debts he accrued when he bought seven New York skyscrapers last year from Equity Office Properties Trust.
  2008-02-26 09:14:00

• A Refinancing Dilemma

  Washington Post - Resize Text One of the main issues in the mortgage crisis is the ability of borrowers to refinance [front page, Feb. 27]. How can you refinance a $200,000 mortgage if the value of the home is only $180,000 and you do not have $20,000 in cash to pay ...
  2008-02-27 09:08:00

• China's rural micro credit program wins international recognition

  Xinhua News Agency - Luckily, he received a 20,000 yuan (2,797 U.S. dollars) loan without a mortgage from the Wuyuan County Rural Credit Union, the major area ... The micro loans ended the history of difficult lending and borrowing and bad credit environment in rural ...
  2008-02-26 09:17:00

• How not to rescue home loans

  Christian Science Monitor - ... ease US bankruptcy rules to allow judges to reduce interest rates and lower mortgage ... The concept of federal buyouts of bad mortgages was tried during the Great ... Congress needs to be patient while financial markets sort out the credit mess left ...
  2008-02-26 04:49:00

• Mortgage Newsletter You Can Customize

  Colleyville Courier - Historic Low Rates From Top Lenders - No Obligation, No SSN Required & Bad Credit OK. http://Refinance.LeadSteps.com/ Mortgage Marketing Build your business now!
  2008-02-25 06:12:00

• Investors pare gains after regulator lifts caps on Fannie, Freddie ...

  San Diego Union-Tribune - ... concerns about rising prices, a weaker dollar and continued turmoil in the credit ... That offered a chance for an easing of the extremely tight mortgage market that has ... There was more bad news about the housing slump.
  2008-02-27 02:27:00

• A lender's recipe for downfall

  Baltimore Sun - It turned the idea of credit risk on its head. Consumers just exiting bankruptcy could get a mortgage with few questions. ... recent years, executives described the company as the "hardest place to deliver a bad ...
  2008-02-25 10:37:00

• Investigator Exclusive: Mortgage company abandons customers' personal ...

  WKYC - It makes you wonder how bad your credit rating becomes if people get this in their hands," said Mrs. Soeder. Ohio Attorney General, Marc Dann, has sued another mortgage company, Randall Mortgage Services, Inc., for allegedly abandoning customers' loan ...
  2008-02-24 03:57:00

• ANZ National challenged on rate rise

  Stuff - ... wants ANZ National Bank to provide better justifications for lifting key mortgage ... That is both unfair on individual households and bad for the wider economy. ... ANZ National said changes in world credit markets since the US sub-prime crisis ...
  2008-02-27 06:09:00

• When debt is good and bad

  International Herald Tribune - INSIDE THE MARKETS When debt is good and bad ... Easily available credit and low inflation have encouraged a huge increase in ... able to borrow, especially those whose homes are now worth less than their mortgage.
  2008-02-26 07:05:00

• US House lawmakers consider $15 billion mortgage bailout plan as ...

  International Herald Tribune - ... help struggling borrowers avoid foreclosure and financial markets avoid more credit ... Banks and investors who hold those mortgages — often in complex mortgage securities ... on Capitol Hill that would allow the government to take on the risk of some bad ...
  2008-02-26 02:29:00

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