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• GLOBAL MARKETS-Dollar falls to lows; commodities surge

  Forbes - ... easier money and as regulators proposed easier restrictions on the leading home ... ended lower on worries about the U.S. economy and as Britain's biggest mortgage ... They are going to cut rates as need be to support economic growth," said Brian ...
  2008-02-27 01:30:00

• Banking's Black Hole

  Forbes - Home Business Tech Markets Entrepreneurs Leadership Personal Finance ForbesLife Lists ... are rapidly deteriorating, liquidity has been choked, and recovery rates are in ... received subpoenas and information requests relating to subprime mortgages, mortgage ...
  2008-02-25 01:18:00

• Toll Brothers Swings to 1Q Loss

  Forbes - Luxury-home builder Toll Brothers Inc. said Wednesday it swung to a loss in the first quarter as write-downs on ... Better housing affordability will help sales unless mortgage rates spike, said Daniel Oppenheim, an analyst at Banc of America ...
  2008-02-27 01:30:00

• Stocks Finish Flat After Housing-Inspired Rally

  CNBC - ... term correction before regulators announced plans to ease regulations on mortgage ... above $100 a barrel and, 2) despite all of the Fed's rate cuts, mortage rates ... Mae reported a worse-than-expected  $3.6 billion quarterly loss , and luxury home ...
  2008-02-27 12:54:00

• Dollar Falls to Record Against Euro on Fed Rate-Cut Speculation

  Bloomberg - Bernanke signaled he's ready to lower interest rates again to support the ... It has weakened against 15 of the 16 most- active currencies as subprime-mortgage ... New home sales dropped 2.8 percent to an annual pace of 588,000 last month, the ...
  2008-02-27 01:44:00

• Agency Mortgage Securities Spreads Widen to New Eight-Year High

  Bloomberg - Spreads over benchmarks on AAA rated securities created in private securitizations of everything from home and ... Swap rates, which agency mortgage bonds more closely track than Treasuries because the contracts are often used as hedges, are the fixed ...
  2008-02-25 02:08:00

• Bernanke says Fed prepared to help U.S. economy

  MSN MoneyCentral - ... rallying at one point when a U.S. regulator gave the green light to home finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to invest more in the mortgage ... financial market stress has kept long-term interest rates -- such as mortgage rates ...
  2008-02-27 02:49:00

• TREASURIES-Bonds steady, agency shifts balance flimsy data

  Reuters - ... were mostly flat on Wednesday as sharp pullbacks in durable goods orders and home ... regulators had lifted the caps on investments held by government-sponsored mortgage ... to insure against downside risks in a timely manner, which means that short rates ...
  2008-02-27 01:30:00

• Investors’ bets on commercial real estate plunge may be overdone

  Boston Herald - Delinquency rates on commercial mortgages remain very low and the risks aren’t the same as with residential ... Q: If I buy a home, how much will the mortgage-interest tax break help me?
  2008-02-27 11:57:00

• WRAPUP 2-Govt eases Freddie, Fannie reins despite huge losses

  Forbes - NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Wednesday lifted limits on the amount the two largest mortgage finance companies can invest in home ... by a $3.2 billion loss on derivative contracts used to hedge its investment portfolio as interest rates ...
  2008-02-27 01:44:00

• Bernanke encouraged by 'jumbo' loan plan

  CNBC - ... Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase and guarantee home loans of up to $729,750 because they won't be traded in a key secondary market, thereby limiting the prospect for sharply lower rates on ... testimony, Bernanke said the government-sponsored mortgage ...
  2008-02-27 01:16:00

• Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Portfolio Caps Will Be Lifted (Update3)

  Bloomberg - ... very conservatively'' and expand its business of guaranteeing mortgage bonds faster than its portfolio of home loans and mortgage ... Spreads have been near the highest since the 1980s, according to UBS AG analysts, translating to rising mortgage rates ...
  2008-02-27 01:30:00

• Fannie and Freddie: big hopes to arrest housing slump

  Financial Times - ... term mortgage rates ... US rates research at Deutsche Bank. Falling home prices have led to an end of bank balance-sheet growth, cutting off the principal buyer of mortgages in the past five years. According to data from Deutsche Bank, dealer mortgage ...
  2008-02-27 12:19:00

• Treasurys Mixed After Hectic News Flow

  CNN Money - Home Business News Markets Personal Finance Real Estate Technology Small Business Luxury ... Regulators said they will lift limits on the investment portfolios of mortgage ... That's because the Fed must choose whether to keep cutting rates to stimulate the ...
  2008-02-27 01:52:00

• Markets up on mortgage industry hopes

  Chicago Sun-Times - ... lifted the caps on the investment portfolios for government-sponsored mortgage ... The Fed, widely expected to make a half-point cut in interest rates, will meet ... The Commerce Department reported that new home sales fell in January for a third ...
  2008-02-27 01:44:00

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