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• Mortage rates increase (El Paso Times)

  WASHINGTON—Rates on 30-year mortgages rose for the first time this year after four straight weekly declines. Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.68 percent this week, up from 5.48 percent last week.
  2008-01-31 04:05:35

• Bank of England poised to reduce cost of borrowing (The Herald)

  Economists are unanimous in the view that the Bank of England will cut benchmark UK interest rates by a further quarter-point to 5.25% next Thursday to fend off a sharp slowdown, in spite of inflationary pressures, a poll revealed yesterday.
  2008-01-31 04:06:57

• Mortgage brokers reassure public of ethical standards amid bust (9:46 a.m.) (Sun Star)

  NEW YORK - Mortgage brokers who have not fled the industry or been forced out are in survival mode.
  2008-01-31 06:12:41

• Buyers scarce as house prices fall for third month in a row (Guardian Unlimited)

  House prices fall, dragging the annual rate of increase to its lowest level in more than two years
  2008-01-31 06:21:04

• Mortgage rates drop to lowest level in years (The Salt Lake Tribune)

  Posted: 7:26 PM- When Steve VanHorn and his girlfriend Tazia Asplund first got preapproved for a home loan in December, 30-year mortgage rates were around 6 percent.
  2008-01-31 06:38:54

• Loonie drops below parity on weak economic news and profit-taking (The Ottawa Sun)

  OTTAWA — More clouds over the U.S. financial industry and a report showing Canada’s manufacturing and forestry output declined in November, combined to help push the loonie down by more than a cent on Thursday.
  2008-01-31 06:52:33

• Strickland announces major cuts will occur (IndeOnline.com)

  Three positions here, 815 positions there. Gov. Ted Strickland wants to cut 2,700 state jobs as a way to trim $733 million from the two-year budget as national economic conditions saddle Ohio with a financial disaster.
  2008-01-31 07:14:12

• Transcript of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate (CNN.com)

  WOLF BLITZER, CNN: Let's begin with Senator Obama.
  2008-01-31 07:40:15

• From the Housing Market to the Maternity Ward (New York Times)

  For the first time in 35 years, America?s total fertility rate reached 2.1, the theoretical level required to maintain the country?s population.
  2008-01-31 07:56:11

• Subprime Lenders Get Tax Breaks in U.S. Senate Stimulus Plan

  Bloomberg - Banks, which have posted $145 billion in writedowns and credit losses tied to the falling value of mortgage securities since ... Flom LLP, said allowing losses to be carried back for a longer time gives companies a more accurate way to calculate their ...
  2008-01-31 08:19:00

• Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Releases December 2007 Cost of ...

  Forbes - Changes in interest rates on adjustable rate mortgage loans offered by many financial institutions are tied to changes in ... its COFI Reporting Members for the purpose of confirming the accuracy of the data they deliver to the Bank used to calculate ...
  2008-01-31 03:42:00

• Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Releases December 2007 ... - PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung)

  Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Releases December 2007 ...PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria - 3 hours agoChanges in interest rates on adjustable rate mortgage loans offered by many financial institutions are tied to changes in the COFI. ...
  2008-01-31 03:46:29

• Extra payments can trim decade off loan (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)

  Making extra payments can save thousands off the cost of a mortgage, says Dr. Don Taylor.
  2008-01-31 03:00:00

• Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Releases December 2007 Cost of Funds Index (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

  SAN FRANCISCO----The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco announced January 31, 2008, that the 11th District Monthly Weighted Average Cost of Funds Index for December 2007 is 4.072%.
  2008-01-31 03:44:00

• FEATURE-Option ARMs, next chapter in U.S. housing crisis

  Reuters - CHICAGO, Feb 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. housing crisis has focused attention on adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) and the danger posed by their spiking interest ... And, they say, it will hit prime borrowers and subprime borrowers alike. People like Bruce ...
  2008-01-31 03:57:00

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