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  • News Minute: Countdown to caucuses...Denver shooting suspect...Florida ...

    WDAM-TV - The Latest in House and Home House & Home Main Today's Mortgage Rates Money This Week in Money Money Home For Small Businesses Credit and Debt Insurance Center Real Estate ... Associated Press - January 2, 2008 6:53 AM ET DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - One last push ...
    2008-01-02 12:39:00
  • Designers declare where the money is for 2008

    San Francisco Gate - Bay Area interior designers are looking forward to a busy 2008 - and, odd as it seems, the nation's mortgage crisis may deserve credit for ... hard to tell the designer from the client, but people are more informed, and I don't think that's ever a bad ...
    2008-01-02 01:51:00
  • Health credit risk weighed

    Baltimore Sun - Mortgage lenders aren't the only ones showing more interest in your credit score these days - the health industry is creating its own score to judge your ... can pay his or her bill or if they should just write it off as uncollectible, or a "bad ...
    2008-01-02 12:10:00
  • Shares for 2008

    Guardian Unlimited - ... few people had even heard of "sub-prime mortgages", but these dodgy US loans have since forced American and European banks to write off billions of pounds of bad debts, caused a credit crunch which is still biting hard, and brought UK mortgage ...
    2008-01-02 03:52:00
  • Big Three's year painful - Windsor Star

    Big Three's year painfulWindsor Star,  Canada - 5 hours agoFor the Detroit-based automotive companies, the year 2007 was one endless stream of shocks, setbacks and bad news. While some of the import nameplates ...
    2008-01-02 12:55:53
  • Counterparty Risk and the Subprime Fiasco - Seeking Alpha

    Counterparty Risk and the Subprime FiascoSeeking Alpha, NY - 4 hours agoIf an Investment Bank has large exposure to the subprime mortgage market and the executives at that bank feel uncomfortable with it, they will hedge some of ...
    2008-01-02 01:22:14
  • Kuwait, China, 3Com (COMS) And What Foreign Funds Can Buy - 24/7 Wall St.

    Kuwait, China, 3Com (COMS) And What Foreign Funds Can Buy24/7 Wall St., NY - 3 hours agoKuwait has announced that its sovereign fund will begin to cherry pick US companies that have suffered from the current credit crisis. ...
    2008-01-02 02:55:46
  • Area hit hard by energy costs - Fort Worth Star Telegram

    Area hit hard by energy costsFort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 2 hours agoBefore, the major expenses were the mortgage or the car payment. But now it's the energy costs that are the major expense coming out of our budget. ...
    2008-01-02 03:17:30
  • WHY NO ONE WILL BE BUYING HOUSES THIS YEAR - Firstrung

    WHY NO ONE WILL BE BUYING HOUSES THIS YEARFirstrung, UK - 2 hours agoThe group was set to buy US mortgage and car rental business, PHH, in a joint venture with General Electric. But the deal was set up in March, ...
    2008-01-02 03:32:02
  • The Great Tax Selling Myth - 24/7 Wall St.

    The Great Tax Selling Myth24/7 Wall St., NY - 2 hours agoAccording to Reuters "home builders, mortgage companies and banks were among the biggest losers in 2007 as the subprime crisis dried up lending, ...
    2008-01-02 03:41:23
  • Financial outlook for New Year is worst since the dotcom crash - Fair Investment Company

    Financial outlook for New Year is worst since the dotcom crashFair Investment Company, UK - 2 hours agoThe future looks similarly bleak for individuals, who have an average debt to creditors of £30000, and the rising costs of food, energy and higher mortgage ...
    2008-01-02 03:46:11
  • As Democracy Falters - Wall Street Journal

    As Democracy FaltersWall Street Journal - 1 hour ago"We have had trouble here before, but never anything this bad." Adds Abdalla Bujra, a retired Kenyan professor who runs a democracy-building organization ...
    2008-01-02 04:05:49
  • Singapore's GDP Unexpectedly Shrinks on Weaker Output (Update7) - Bloomberg

    Singapore's GDP Unexpectedly Shrinks on Weaker Output (Update7)Bloomberg - 1 hour ago``We definitely should expect to see more softness in exports in the next couple of quarters, and that's bad news for electronics-heavy Asian economies,'' ...
    2008-01-02 04:39:08
  • Liquidity raises chances of rate rise - The Australian

    Liquidity raises chances of rate riseThe Australian, Australia - 26 minutes agoThe move was attributed by analysts to central banks having cancelled out some of the effects of the global credit crunch by pumping liquidity - more ...
    2008-01-02 05:33:39
  • Wall Street Wraps Up '07 in Somber Mood (IWon - Money)

    NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street ended a painful year with another steep loss Monday as investors glumly anticipated that 2008 would bring more of the uncertainty and turbulence of 2007.
    2008-01-02 04:01:14