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  • Sarkozy Says `Work More, Earn More' to Spur Consumer Spending

    Bloomberg - ... from the 35 hours in exchange for pay increases,'' Sarkozy said in a prime time ... Rising oil and food prices sent the annual inflation rate to a 14-month high in ... which will come into force next year, including a deduction for mortgage-interest ...
    2007-11-29 11:59:00
  • Petrol price watchdog to be set up

    News.com.au - ... petrol price commissioner to monitor big oil companies will be one of the incoming Labor government's first acts, Prime ... Rising food and petrol prices, coupled with recent interest rate rises, were putting extraordinary pressures on families, he said
    2007-11-29 09:51:00
  • Price tag in mortgage crisis is looking like real money

    Los Angeles Times - Bernanke suggested late Thursday that the central bank was prepared to cut its benchmark interest rate when ... and major financial institutions are close to agreeing on a plan that would temporarily freeze interest rates on certain troubled sub-prime ...
    2007-11-29 11:52:00
  • India's Economy Expands 8.9%, Slowest Pace This Year (Update1)

    Bloomberg - ... signaling the central bank may soon end three years of inflation-fighting rate ... Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government is due next week to consider plans to ... expects growth in the year to March to ease to 8.5 percent after it raised interest ...
    2007-11-29 09:58:00
  • Dollar closes stronger, but struggled to rally

    News.com.au - THE dollar closed stronger today but struggled to maintain a sustained rally as fears of more sub-prime mortgage losses ... Carry traders tend to sell low-yielding currencies like the Japanese yen for high interest rate tender like the Australian dollar ...
    2007-11-29 11:59:00
  • Paulson Negotiating With Lenders to Stem Surge in Foreclosures

    Bloomberg - ... is negotiating an agreement with lenders to stem a surge in foreclosures by fixing interest rates ... Homeowners were behind on 17 percent of adjustable-rate subprime loans in June, compared with 4.2 percent for prime mortgages of the same type, Mortgage ...
    2007-11-29 11:24:00
  • RBA to wait till February to raise interest rates

    News.com.au - Ore war: Rio boss dismisses rival Forecast: RBA to wait till February Commodities: Oil prices soar Environment: World's biggest companies join forces Sub-prime: Credit crunch hits Perpetual Interest: Hint of US rate cut stokes market Class action: Qantas ...
    2007-11-29 06:59:00
  • Sub-prime? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet

    National Business Review - First, the bulk of the first interest rate resets for adjustable-rate sub-prime mortgages are yet to come.” “On average, from now until the end of 2008, nearly 450,000 sub-prime mortgages per quarter are scheduled to undergo their first reset ...
    2007-11-29 06:52:00
  • Cooling housing market fuels rate cut hopes (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)

    House prices fell in November at their steepest rate for 12 years and home loan approvals dropped to their lowest in nearly three years, boosting bets the central bank may cut interest rates next week.
    2007-11-29 07:39:00
  • Dollar-Shekel Rate: How Low is Low? (Israel National News)

    (IsraelNN.com) The dollar-shekel rate hit another 10-year-old low Thursday night when it broke the level of 3.83 shekels to the dollar. The latest decline in the rate follows speculation that the American Federal Reserve Bank will cut the prime interest rate again in December.
    2007-11-29 10:31:56
  • Heirs can refuse bequeathed property

    Arlington Heights Daily Herald - If I pay the card off now in a lump sum and then close the account, will it hurt my credit score and make it harder to refinance my mortgage? A. No, simply paying the bill off and then closing the account shouldn't have a major impact on your credit ...
    2007-11-29 10:19:00
  • Paulson Seeks Accord With Banks to Refinance Subprime Mortgages

    Bloomberg - Nov. 29 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is trying to forge an agreement with lenders to stem a surge in foreclosures by giving troubled borrowers more affordable loans, according to people familiar with a meeting he led today ...
    2007-11-28 03:54:00
  • Calif. Democrats seek special legislative session on foreclosures

    San Francisco Gate - Ban prepayment penalties that are sometimes applied when home owners refinance into more affordable loans. _ Increase state oversight of lenders and require them to create a uniform way of dealing with delinquent mortgages. _ Require lenders to send ...
    2007-11-29 03:31:00
  • Torres offers Benítez eloquent backing, on and off the pitch

    Guardian Unlimited - This has eased the stand-off with the Americans, who are close to securing a £500m loan from the US bank Wachovia that will fund a proposed £400m new stadium and refinance the Royal Bank of Scotland loan they used to buy the club in February ...
    2007-11-29 06:52:00
  • Infogrames H1 op loss narrows after capital gain

    Guardian Unlimited - It said it was looking at ways to refinance its debt and fund its capital expenditure and operations and that could involve "equity, equity-linked or debt issues".
    2007-11-29 10:26:00