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  • Troubled Bond Insurer Puts on Its Defense (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    Under attack from critics who describe the company as effectively insolvent, MBIA presented a spirited defense in a four-hour conference call with investors and analysts Thursday.
    2008-01-31 09:42:00

  • America's teetering banking system (Online Journal)

    Somebody goofed. When Fed chairman Ben Bernanke cut interest rates to 3 percent Wednesday, the price of a new mortgage went up. How does that help the flagging housing industry?
    2008-01-31 10:00:58

  • Stocks erase early losses, charge higher following easing of concerns about bond insurers (The Standard-Times)

    NEW YORK — Wall Street ended a frenetic January with a huge advance Thursday after investors set aside worries about bond insurers and grew more optimistic that the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts will indeed help lift the economy. The Dow...
    2008-01-31 10:09:59

  • Bond insurer meltdown could lead to higher taxes (Pioneer Press)

    NEW YORK - As bad news about the financial system piles up, trust - the pillar of investing - is being buried.
    2008-01-31 10:13:20

  • Nerve Tonic (The Harrisonburg Daily News-Record)

    HARRISONBURG - The Federal Reserves rate cut on Wednesday will have little effect on long-term investments but will have an immediate impact on savings and borrowing rates, experts say.
    2008-01-31 10:13:24

  • Gambling losses can offset those taxable winnings (Detroit News)

    Here's a year-end heart-warmer for gamblers: You really do need to pay taxes on your winnings, whether you won $10 or $1,000, and a pair of experts have come out with a book to explain it all.
    2008-01-31 10:23:23

  • Repossessed homes flood property auction market (Gulf Times)

    LONDON: Cracks are beginning to show in Britain’s multi-billion pound residential investment sector after Allsop, the UK’s biggest property auctioneer, said around half the houses it has offered since July were repossessions.
    2008-01-31 10:27:42

  • Outsourcing sector hit by Internet woes (Gulf Times)

    BANGALORE: India’s vital outsourcing industry was grappling with major communications disruption yesterday after damage to undersea cables thousands of kilometres away in the Mediterranean.
    2008-01-31 10:30:14

  • Transcript of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate

    CNN - ... that we fail to act on at our peril; global warming, which the United States must lead in trying to contend with and reverse ... interest rates will go up across the board and you will have a lot of people who are currently trying to get mortgages who ...
    2008-01-30 03:58:00

  • How do the Coping Classes cope?

    Daily Telegraph - the 'Coping Class might cope better by being content with what they have instead of endlessly chasing more materialism, greed and insane borrowing to follow some ridiculous 'keeping-up-with-the-Jones' lifestyle. By cutting out the second car, foreign ...
    2008-01-31 08:47:00

  • Australian Stocks Set for Worst Month in More Than 20 Years

    Bloomberg - Macquarie Group Ltd. and CSL Ltd. slipped on concern the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut won't reverse the U.S. economy ... Australian stocks have fallen in January as rising defaults in U.S. subprime mortgages diminished the amount of credit ...
    2008-01-29 03:59:00

  • COLUMN-Carry trade goes way of all leverage: James Saft

    Forbes - ... are now betting heavily that the yen will rise, according to UBS, a complete reverse of 2007 and the biggest such bet since ... November there were some $18 billion of foreign exchange loans to households in Hungary, about evenly split between mortgages ...
    2008-01-31 02:02:00

  • Long-Term Health Care Expert Visits Chattanooga

    Chattanoogan - His group encourages private insurance and home equity conversion (reverse mortgages) as alternatives to public welfare financing of long-term care. Mr. Moses has directed numerous studies for the federal government, state governments, and private ...
    2008-01-30 03:58:00

  • Will Dickey / Florida Times-Union

    Florida Times-Union - Belling said reverse mortgages can be useful in some circumstances for seniors, provided they understand how the loans work. She said loan-related fees make reverse mortgages high-priced at the front end, so borrowers should consider other options ...
    2008-01-28 03:53:00

  • First Century Bank launches Internet lending division

    Access North GA - The company will also offer reverse mortgages, which unlock home equity, providing access to cash for senior Americans without requiring the sale of their home. Would-be borrowers can search rates and apply for a mortgage online through CenturyPoint ...
    2008-01-31 08:47:00

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