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  • Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Company Profile - View Federal Reserve ...

    Jacksonville Business Journal - Housing markets need stabilization [Atlanta] Atlanta finance execs discuss mortgage crisis [Atlanta] Banks follow Fed, lower prime rates [Nashville] Banks follow Fed, lower prime rates [Memphis]
    2008-02-29 11:19:00
  • Business events scheduled for Thursday

    MSN MoneyCentral - WASHINGTON -- Freddie Mac reports on mortgage rates. WASHINGTON -- House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on executive pay and the mortgage crisis.
    2008-02-27 10:10:00
  • US regulator to deepen pockets of two mortgage finance firms

    Raw Story - With the increase in portfolio limits, the GSEs will be enabled to continue to offer liquidity to the secondary mortgage market and hopefully reduce mortgage rates for primary mortgage loan borrowers," said Stephen Gallagher, an analyst at Societe ...
    2008-02-27 02:35:00
  • Seeking solutions for Sonic gloom

    ESPN.com - Gas prices are the highest they have ever been, and mortgage rates continue to rise. We are paying for a remodel of the current KeyArena, and now they want more.
    2008-02-29 01:13:00
  • Radian Group Notes S&P Downgrade of Radian Insurance

    MSN MoneyCentral - ... which have resulted in increased losses in 2007 and may result in further losses; reduced opportunities for loss mitigation in markets where housing values fail to appreciate or begin to decline; changes in persistency rates of our mortgage ...
    2008-02-29 08:49:00
  • Fed’s hands are full as economy tightens

    MSNBC - And 30-year mortgage rates, which fell sharply in the second half of 2007, have been rising again — up to about 6.25 percent from 5.5 percent as recently as January.
    2008-02-29 12:23:00
  • AP News Calendar

    Forbes - Labor Department reports on weekly jobless claims, 8:30 a.m.; Freddie Mac (nyse: FRE - news - people ), the mortgage company, reports on mortgage rates.
    2008-02-29 12:23:00
  • UK house prices dip for fourth month

    Financial Times - Bank of England data showed that banks lending to non-financial groups grew by its slowest rate for four years in January, while the effective mortgage rates for new lending in January were barely lower than those in November, in spite of December ...
    2008-02-29 01:06:00
  • This week's Real Estate stories

    Marketwatch - For the week ending Jan. 3, Freddie Mac reported that the average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage was 6.07%. By the week ending Jan. 24, the average rate dropped to 5.48% -- nearly a four-year low for the mortgage. But rates reversed course ...
    2008-02-29 10:29:00
  • Fitch Rates Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2008-TOP29

    Forbes - Morgan Stanley Capital I Trust 2008-TOP29, commercial mortgage pass-through certificates are rated by Fitch Ratings as follows: --$46,000,000 class A-1 'AAA'
    2008-02-29 12:02:00
  • Fitch Rates $328.6MM Lehman Mortgage Trust Mtge P-T Ctfs 2008-2

    Forbes - --$328.6 million classes 1-A1 through 1-A17, AP, and R (senior certificates) 'AAA'. The 'AAA' rating on the senior certificates reflects the 4.75% total credit enhancement provided by the 3.00% class B1, the 0.55% class B2, the 0.40% class B3, the ...
    2008-02-29 09:53:00
  • Fitch Rates Bayview Commercial Asset Trust $360.96MM 2008-2   (InfoBolsa)

    29/02/2008 20:38:00 Business Wire Fitch rates Bayview Commercial Asset Trust s mortgage pass-through certificates, series 2008-2, as follows: --$280,150,000 classes IO, SIO, A-1, A-2, A-3, A-4A and A-4B senior certificates AAA .
    2008-02-29 01:02:15
  • Five Cities Financial Forum: Three ways to avoid the foreclosure trap (Arroyo Grande Times Press Recorder)

    Recent statistics indicate that the number of foreclosures in the United States are nearly twice what they were a year ago. In some states, foreclosures reportedly claim one in every 199 households.
    2008-02-29 12:25:45
  • More Property Price Pain For First-Time Buyers (The Motley Fool)

    We're seeing conflicting messages from house price data but even if house prices fall, first-time buyers could struggle to get on the ladder.
    2008-02-29 08:32:28
  • UPI NewsTrack Business (Moldova.org)

    U.S. markets tumble FridayNEW YORK, Feb. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. markets tumbled Friday in spite of news personal consumption expenditures rose in January.The U.S. Commerce Department said personal spending rose 0.4 percent over December, but worsening inflation flattened the effect of the spending increase.The Dow Jones industrial average was down 207.68 points, 1.65 percent, to 12,374.50 in ...
    2008-02-29 08:38:41