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  • Q&A Transcript

    Washington Post - Steven Pearlstein: Bank CD's might be a good place to start. Countrywide bank is offering very good rates, I hear. Government guaranteed, too. ... Protect your principle, look for good, safe vehicles that pay decent interest rates or ...
    2008-02-20 11:15:00

  • Forex - Pound under renewed pressure as BoE minutes suggest more rate ...

    FXStreet.com - LONDON (Thomson Financial) - The pound came under renewed pressure after the Bank of England's latest interest rate ... Today, it emerged that while the majority of rate setters chose to lower rates by a quarter point to 5.25 pct earlier this ...
    2008-02-20 05:25:00

  • Fed says January emergency rate cut meant to avoid credit pull-back

    FXStreet.com - The minutes also noted that "some" members noted that if the fed went to far, it would be "important for the Committee to be decisive in reversing the course of interest rates once the economy had strengthened." pete.kasperowicz@thomson.com pik/wash ...
    2008-02-20 11:08:00

  • Fed cuts 2008 US growth forecast to 1.3-2.0 pct from 1.8-2.5 pct ...

    FXStreet.com - The Fed does see growth in the coming years as stronger than earlier forecast, as lower interest rates and an expected turnaround in the housing market are seen boosting the world's largest economy. The Fed said growth in 2009 is expected to be about ...
    2008-02-20 11:15:00

  • Q&A Transcript

    Washington Post - ... column. (Aside to your producer: could the discussion pages include a link to your column archive, or even the current ... be middle class American consumers who face increasing credit problems - generally in the form of rapidly rising mortgage rates ...
    2008-02-20 11:15:00

  • Cracking the 401(k) nest egg: Many workers sacrificing future comforts ...

    Tacoma News Tribune - Mortgage lenders have also reduced limits on home-equity lines of credit. Meanwhile, jobs can be harder to find, and ... Based on current savings rates, the center estimates that 43 percent of households risk not being able to fund the same standard of ...
    2008-02-20 06:50:00

  • Tempus: Bank on pain

    Times Online - A&L says that it does not want to use overly generous interest rates to lure new customers to its savings accounts. Nor, with its high borrowing costs, can it afford to offer market-beating mortgage deals. This leaves the focus solely on current ...
    2008-02-20 08:31:00

  • Act before you default on loans

    News.com.au - HOMEOWNERS having trouble making mortgage repayments should contact their lender before defaulting. Borrowers who act early could even walk away with a better deal. ... But it's not the end of the world if the current ...
    2008-02-20 05:32:00

  • Wobbly Wednesday For Europe

    Forbes - British mortgage lender Alliance & Leicester (other-otc: AANCF - news ... ended the day down 6.8%, at 492 pence ($9.55) after warning that under current ... to the dilemma of many economies of whether to focus on confidence-building rates ...
    2008-02-20 10:25:00

  • U.S. Swaption Volatility Soars on Mortgage-Debt Related Hedging

    Bloomberg - ... released at the end of trading each day, was 100.3 basis points at the end of last year and signals traders' expectations for fluctuations in swap rates over the next year. A basis point is 0.01 percentage point. ``The current mortgage ...
    2008-02-19 10:26:00

  • Stronger actions weighed to ease U.S. housing crisis

    International Herald Tribune - Treasury Department coaxed mortgage providers to try to freeze interest rates for more than a million troubled ... idea being considered by lawmakers and regulators would have mortgage servicers reduce the principal amount of a loan to its current ...
    2008-02-20 09:06:00

  • Bank voted 8-1 for cut to 5.25%

    BBC Business - ... the reductions have been less dramatic than in the US where the Federal Reserve has lowered rates from 5.25% in September 2007 to the current ... It added that the mortgage sector had declined, with mortgage approvals reaching their lowest since 1995
    2008-02-20 08:59:00

  • A&L to reel in mortgages after 30% drop in profits

    Guardian Unlimited - ... forward, A&L has decided to be very selective about granting new mortgages and plans to focus on winning new current ... on keeping its existing customers during the coming year rather than seek out new customers with market-leading mortgage rates.
    2008-02-20 11:15:00

  • U.S. MBA's Mortgage Applications Index Declined 23% Last Week

    Bloomberg - ... 20 (Bloomberg) -- Mortgage applications in the U.S. dropped by the most in more than four years as the highest mortgage rates in ... At the current rate, monthly borrowing costs for each $100,000 of a loan would be $605.35. The average rate ...
    2008-02-20 05:10:00

  • Mortgage industry aid limited by loan contracts

    Reuters - ... hamstrung by existing contracts as it tries to dampen the current foreclosure crisis, the head of the largest industry-led homeowner assistance program said on Wednesday. Leaders of the mortgage industry have conceived plans to freeze mortgage rates ...
    2008-02-20 09:42:00

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