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  • In search of mortgage 'victims'

    Raleigh News & Observer - Avoiding preventable foreclosures, then, is in the interest of all homeowners." But all foreclosures are "preventable" if all mortgage contracts can be revised. ... with negligible "teaser" rates, or mortgages requiring them at first to pay only interest ...
    2007-12-18 02:59:00
  • Fed To Impose New Rules On U.S. Mortgage Lenders

    All Headline News - ... been the practice that borrowers start payment with a low introductory loan rate, only ... Fed's plan to address misleading mortgage ads and to require full disclosure by mortgage lenders for "consumers (to) avoid loans that are not in their interest.
    2007-12-18 05:29:00
  • News Minute: Border crossed...Cold and dark...Space repairs

    WDAM-TV - The Latest in House and Home House & Home Main Today's Mortgage Rates In the Know Movie Listings Personal Finance This Week in Money ... the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but about two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Barack Obama is the only ...
    2007-12-18 12:07:00
  • What is a money auction?

    BBC UK News - The Bank of England is doing it and it's not the only one. So is the US Federal ... about lending money because of heavy losses linked to problems in the US mortgage ... are unable to borrow in the money markets or elsewhere at a cheap rate of interest ...
    2007-12-18 04:10:00
  • Bank of England to offer lenders an extra £10bn to try to ease credit ...

    Daily Mail - ... that Treasury advisers have been drawing up plans for a series of commercial banks to help bail out the stricken mortgage ... Treasury sources said that if the Government was forced to nationalise the bank, it would only be for a "short period of ...
    2007-12-18 02:44:00
  • Mortgage prepayment fees limited

    Rocky Mountain News - From now on, the prepayment penalty will last only as long as the introductory period. Chris Holbert, president of the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association, said, "We understand the interest in protecting consumers and the division's response, but it ...
    2007-12-18 05:15:00
  • Credit crisis took bond market into uncharted territory

    International Herald Tribune - NEW YORK : It was only last April when John Kosar, the president of Asbury ... an interview last week that "trends have changed" since July, when subprime mortgage ... The difference between the interest rate banks pay for three-month loans and ...
    2007-12-18 05:36:00
  • Stock markets set for rebound

    Edmonton Sun - The annual inflation rate edged up to 2.5 per cent in November, up one-10th of a percentage point from October. The loonie opened at 98.74 cents US, down more than two-thirds of a cent from Monday's close. The Canadian currency had jumped more than a ...
    2007-12-18 04:46:00
  • EU unveils proposals to integrate European mortgage markets

    Forbes - The potential benefits of removing these barriers could, according to some estimates, reduce the interest payable on a 100,000 eur mortgage loan ... is provided by AFX News and its third party content providers for your personal information only, and ...
    2007-12-18 04:03:00
  • Fed to Unveil Home Mortgage Rules

    Washington Post - ... and calm investors, as the Federal Reserve prepared to release new home mortgage ... to each other, offered unlimited, two-week loans to banks at a low, fixed-interest ... The Fed rules would apply only to new loans, though the Bush administration has ...
    2007-12-18 05:36:00
  • Higher gasoline prices, mortgage costs push inflation up to 2.5 per ...

    CJAD - November's all-items inflation gain was mostly propelled by a 17.6 per cent jump in gasoline prices and a seven per cent advance in mortgage interest costs. Excluding energy, the all-items index rose only 1.7 per cent last month on an annual basis. ...
    2007-12-18 04:03:00
  • Inflation up to 2.5 per cent in November: StatsCan (CTV.ca)

    Canada's annual inflation rate accelerated to 2.5 per cent in November, likely fueled by a spike in gasoline prices and mortgage interest costs, according to data released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday.
    2007-12-18 04:27:31
  • State bans some prepayment penalties (The Pueblo Chieftain)

    DENVER - The Colorado Division of Real Estate has enacted an emergency rule that it hopes will put an end to some unfair prepayment penalties. The new rule prohibits mortgage brokers from assessing prepayment penalties on some homeowners who try to pay off their homes early. It applies only to penalties that extend past the adjustment date of an interest rate, teaser rate or payment rate. ...
    2007-12-18 04:12:33
  • (AFX UK Focus) 2007-12-17 20:00 GMT: Treasury's Paulson says mortgage industry plan will not stop every foreclosure (Interactive Investor)

    WASHINGTON (Thomson Financial) - A plan by mortgage servicers and investors to help struggling homeowners continue to make payments in the face of rising mortgage interest rates will not prevent every foreclosure, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said today.
    2007-12-17 12:27:55
  • Northern Rock guarantees widened as Bank of England creates ...

    Daily Mail - ... widened as Bank of England creates £11billion crisis fund to keep rates down Last ... up plans for a series of commercial banks to help bail out the stricken mortgage ... It was their triumphant return home, yet the Spice Girls' first London concert ...
    2007-12-17 11:52:00