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Wall Street remains bullish despite data (AP via Yahoo! News)
With all the predicaments facing the markets these days — credit growing scarcer, oil near a record $90 a barrel, home prices in the dumps — it would be logical if investors were shoving money under their mattresses, instead of into stocks.
2007-10-20 12:39:43 -
Analysis: Finance chiefs have full plate (The Bellingham Herald)
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, bottom row, second from left, gestures during a group photo of the G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting in Washington, Friday, Oct. 19, 2007. Central bank governors pictured top row, left to right: Christian Noyer of France; Axel A. Weber of Germany; Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke; Mario Draghi of Italy; Toshihiko Fukui of Japan.
2007-10-20 04:50:35 -
Get Ready for the Big Squeeze (New York Times)
After years of setting aside less for bad loans, time for some serious catch-up.
2007-10-20 01:14:09 -
Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution
Phoenix New Times - Lawyers have a term for this behavior: ex parte, or " . . . one side only, as in a controversy; in the interest of one party." The Arizona Rules of Professional Conduct are unequivocal: "A lawyer shall not ...
2007-10-20 01:44:00 -
Mortgage defaults close in on Bucks
Bucks County Courier Times - Loans once reserved for a small fraction of homebuyers were expanded to people who couldn't meet the income or down-payment requirements for a traditional mortgage. These subprime loans included: interest only; adjustable rates; balloon payments; the ...
2007-10-18 05:57:00 -
Fed's Poole: cut only if confident won't rue move
Reuters - Louis President William Poole said on Friday that interest rates are about right and ... Problems in the subprime U.S. mortgage market sparked a global credit crunch in ... If you are going to favor a cut, you are going to say, not only do I think a cut ...
2007-10-18 05:57:00 -
G-7 Says Global Growth Will Slow After `Market' Rout (Update1)
Bloomberg - Mortgage defaults by Americans with poor credit histories prompted the collapse in ... Paulson repeated that while a ``strong dollar is in our nation's interest'' he wants ... What is needed is a code of conduct, not only referring to sovereign wealth ...
2007-10-20 01:58:00 -
Hamish McRae: Poised on the brink of a downturn, the world needs an ...
The Independent - ... an effort to give the UK housing market a further kick, our new Chancellor of the Exchequer last week called on mortgage ... or three years ago, when they started to increase the multiples of income on which they lent and rolled out more interest-only ...
2007-10-20 03:10:00 -
The election show has only just begun
Sydney Morning Herald - Only six days into the federal election campaign, we have two competing visions ... to inflationary pressure at the same time as the Reserve Bank is lifting interest ... text/html-document http://www.smh.com.au/news/federalelection2007news/mortgage-kids ...
2007-10-20 03:17:00 -
How the roof fell in on America's property gamblers
Observer - The low interest rate environment and easy access to credit, coupled with frenetic ... Next in line were the big homebuilders, who did the same as the local guys only ... activity, no wonder Wall Street saw that a fast buck was to be made in mortgage ...
2007-10-20 04:07:00 -
Do the sensible thing and save Northern Rock
Observer - Otherwise, if you wanted a 20-year mortgage or business loan you would have to wait in vain for a 20-year ... It also follows that the Bank can be reduced to a skeleton staff if its only role is setting interest rates, while the Treasury would ...
2007-10-20 04:07:00 -
House prices ready to stall, experts warn
The Independent - ... double-digit rates, demand has held up surprisingly well given increases in interest ... com, the financial information pro-vider, reported that the number of new mortgage ... Not only is demand slowing, but the supply of houses for sale may be shrinking ...
2007-10-20 03:10:00 -
Should we pay off mortgage or stick with our savings? (The Scotsman: Business)
WE HAVE a three-part mortgage of £19,500; this is made up of a £11,000 endowment mortgage which comes to term in July next year, a £6,000 endowment which does not come to term until 2014, and £2,500 left on a repayment mortgage which should be paid off...
2007-10-20 05:21:38 -
Stocks Plunge; Dow Down More Than 360
Newsday - Home Delivery ... afternoon when Standard & Poor's again reduced its ratings on residential mortgage ... Black Monday -- the Dow plunged 23 percent amid concerns about interest rates and ...
2007-10-19 02:07:00 -
Property prices not immune to disaster
Observer - ... big slowdown in the economy, increased unemployment and rising interest rates ... market has not been granted immunity from the planetary forces influencing home ... claimed that a million people are using their credit card to pay their mortgage or ...
2007-10-20 04:07:00