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  • Calendar of major business events for Thursday - CNN Money

    NEW YORK _ The Conference Board reports its Leading Economic Indicators index for May. 10 a.m. WASHINGTON _ Labor Department reports on weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m. MIAMI _ Carnival Corp. releases second-quarter financial results. RICHMOND, Va ...
    2008-06-18 11:34:00
  • Integrated Mortgage Solutions Expert Available: Best Ways to Avoid ... - PR Inside

    www.imstoday.com - Integrated Mortgage Solutions: -0- What: With market predictions indicating a continued rise in foreclosures through the end of 2009, lenders and servicers are struggling to manage increasing numbers of defaulted and foreclosed ...
    2008-06-18 08:35:00
  • Senate Submerged in Mortgage Scandal - FOX News

    REP. CHRIS DODD (D), CONNECTICUT: At no point did anyone ever suggest to me that we were supposed to get some deal out of Countrywide. I never spoke to anybody except loan officers about this thing, never any higher ups or any senior people within ...
    2008-06-18 06:48:00
  • Mortgage firms settle foreclosure "rescue" case - Boston Globe

    Massachusetts has reached a settlement with 10 mortgage firms over so-called home foreclosure "rescues" that authorities say were fraudulent. Attorney General Martha Coakley (right) says a federal bankruptcy court has approved the agreement with the ...
    2008-06-18 11:34:00
  • NY courts create program to ease foreclosures - Newsday

    NEW YORK - New York state's chief judge says "crisis" numbers of mortgage foreclosures have prompted the court system to create a program to try to save homes _ or at least reduce the time, expense and loss involved in the process. Judge Judith Kaye ...
    2008-06-18 09:11:00
  • Société Générale Teams Up With Rockefeller (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    The French bank Société Générale and Rockefeller Financial Services of New York, which provides financial services for the wealthy, have formed an alliance in private banking.
    2008-06-18 12:36:58
  • Eco-friendly Brunswick Forest home among most expensive (The Wilmington Star-News)

    As people moved furniture into an upscale house for sale in Brunswick Forest, the hot morning sun made its solar panels glisten.The panels are the only visible feature that distinguishes the home from others in the biggest development sprouting on U.S. 17.
    2008-06-18 12:37:03
  • Fifth Third to raise $2 bln capital, cut dividend (EARTHtimes.org)

    BANGALORE (Reuters) - Fifth Third Bancorp , a large U.S. regional bank, said it plans to raise at least $2 billion in capital and slash its dividend 66 percent to cope with mounting credit losses, causing its shares to fall more than 20 percent to their lowest level since 1995.
    2008-06-18 12:48:39
  • Gore-ging on Energy, One Year Later Gore's Home Energy Use Climbs 10% - News Busters

    In February of 2007 a small group named the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published an interesting little story that made Al Gore, the king of global warming alarmism, look a tad foolish. The report that TCPR sent out showed that Al Gore's own ...
    2008-06-17 04:00:00
  • Flood insurance fallacies confound some Iowans - Des Moines Register

    Yes, flood insurance remains available to virtually everyone in Iowa. But no, buying it today won't do anything to cover damage from the floods of June 2008. Reports from Cedar Rapids had homeowners complaining that they were told they didn't need ...
    2008-06-18 04:25:00
  • US FDIC updates rules on big bank deposit coverage - Reuters

    WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp on Tuesday approved a proposal to help federal bank examiners better determine the amount of deposits at a large bank in the event of a failure. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair has ...
    2008-06-17 07:39:00
  • Budget approved with $170 average tax hike (Bucks County Courier Times)

    NESHAMINY - The mortgage crisis and soaring energy costs have produced an estimated $8.6 million deficit for the next school year.
    2008-06-18 08:04:45
  • Thornburg Survival in Doubt, Gets SEC Subpoenas - CNBC

    Thornburg Mortgage , the jumbo mortgage lender that lost $3.31 billion in the first quarter, said on Wednesday it has received subpoenas from U.S. securities regulators and its survival remains in doubt. The disclosures reflect further problems for ...
    2008-06-18 05:15:00
  • Paulson & Co. Says Writedowns May Reach $1.3 Trillion (Update3) - Bloomberg

    June 18 (Bloomberg) -- John Paulson , founder of the hedge fund company Paulson & Co., said global writedowns and losses from the credit crisis may reach $1.3 trillion, exceeding the International Monetary Fund's $945 billion estimate. ``We're only ...
    2008-06-18 09:40:00
  • The biggest mortgage default areas - News.com.au

    Mortgage delinquencies are at record highs NSW has most areas experiencing mortgage defaults More property news in our Money section TWELVE of the 20 areas with the highest mortgage delinquencies in Australia are located in New South Wales, according ...
    2008-06-18 10:08:00