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  • Morgan Stanley's Cruz Replaced After Mortgage Losses (Update1)

    Bloomberg - The firm paid $705 million in December to buy Saxon Capital Inc., a mortgage provider that also services home loans to people with patchy credit histories. Fixed-income trading revenue surged in the second quarter to $2.9 billion from $1 ...
    2007-11-30 12:21:00
  • Wells Fargo's 'SQ1' rating as master servicer affirmed - Moody's

    Forbes - BANGALORE (Thomson Financial) - Moody's Investors Service said it has affirmed Wells Fargo Bank NA's 'SQ1' servicer quality rating as a master servicer of residential mortgage loans. The rating is based on the company's strong reporting and ...
    2007-11-29 10:12:00
  • E-Trade Gets Cash Infusion, Shifts Its Top Leadership

    Washington Post - E-Trade Financial said yesterday it has received a $2.5 billion cash infusion from Citadel Investment Group , making it the latest financial institution to get bailed out from its exposure to bad mortgage loans and securities. The New York company ...
    2007-11-29 10:55:00
  • Home Front: Falling rates raise spirits

    Sacramento Bee - The concept of historically low interest rates is a constant refrain in the real ... rate loans fell to a two-year low – to 6.10 percent nationally – federal mortgage ... At 5.73 percent this week, 15-year fixed-rate loans also fell to their lowest rate ...
    2007-11-29 11:52:00
  • House prices alert after biggest fall for 12 years

    Daily Telegraph - ... starting to fall emerged yesterday as figures showed both house prices and mortgage ... the number of mortgages approved for people buying a home fell to its lowest level ... affordability pressure on house buyers coming from higher interest rates, elevated ...
    2007-11-29 06:23:00
  • Homebuyers locked out as mortgages dry up

    Financial Times - Mortgage approvals fell in October to 88,000, the lowest level since February 2005 and down from 100,000 in September. Mervyn King, the Bank of England ... Treasury select committee, he insisted there had been no significant change in the interest rates ...
    2007-11-29 06:30:00
  • Swiss Economy Expands, Led by Domestic Demand, Trade (Update2)

    Bloomberg - ... late 2005 to combat inflation, is waiting to assess the impact of the U.S. mortgage ... growth and higher inflation would suggest that the SNB should raise interest rates ... With the second-lowest interest rate in the industrialized world after Japan, the ...
    2007-11-30 01:18:00
  • Housing bubble hasn't burst for Valley just yet Home prices rise 4.4 ...

    Allentown Morning Call - ... a higher increase than for the state and the nation, but still marks the lowest ... While select markets still maintain robust rates of appreciation, our newest data ... The decline in the housing market and the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis ...
    2007-11-30 12:07:00
  • U.S. mortgage applications dropped last week-MBA

    Reuters - But fixed 30-year mortgage rates declined 9 basis points to an average of 6.09 percent last week, the lowest level since the week ended March 23. The MBA's seasonally adjusted index of refinancing applications fell 15.3 percent to 1,862.9 last week ...
    2007-11-28 03:51:00
  • 30-year mortgages fall to 6.1%, lowest rate in over 2 years

    Baltimore Sun - WASHINGTON - Mortgage rates fell sharply in the week that ended yesterday, with rates on 30-year mortgages dropping to the lowest level in more than two years. Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage financial company, reported yesterday that ...
    2007-11-30 12:07:00
  • Cleveland-area mortgage rates drop (The Plain Dealer)

    Mortgage rates this week dropped to their lowest levels in more than two years, pushed down by economic woes, the housing slump and competition by banks trying to lure buyers.
    2007-11-30 01:54:52
  • Rates on 30-year mortgages fall to lowest point in 2 years (USA Today)

    Mortgage rates fell sharply this week with rates on 30-year mortgages dropping to the lowest level in more than two years.
    2007-11-29 03:26:53
  • Lean plate club: Heft for the holidays? You can avoid it

    Minneapolis Star Tribune - Log on to My Pyramid ( www.mypyramid.gov ) to calculate your daily caloric needs, then record what you eat and how much you ... has long history as a difference-maker Vikings position themselves with other playoff hopefuls FBI names 2 in latest mortgage ...
    2007-11-19 03:57:00
  • Bus driver shortage unnerves some

    Steamboat Pilot & Today - They can then pick where they live, choose who they live with and possibly get their own mortgage with home ownership. To ... 2) That said, I suspect if you were to accurately calculate the value of your entire compensation package, you would find ...
    2007-11-24 03:59:00
  • Ready, Set, Retire!

    KSAT 12 - And on the expense side, you might be on the cusp of paying off your mortgage, or planning to downsize your home or move to ... Monte Carlo generate varied annual return figures and rerun the projections hundreds or even thousands of times to calculate ...
    2007-11-25 11:28:00