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  • Old Clinton ties and voters' sway tug at delegates

    International Herald Tribune - You can only hide so much, Senator. The fact that you have been, and will ... in studying what stocks to buy, where and when to buy a new house, what mortgage to ... It means he greatly considers people’s sake and not his own interest - well, I ...
    2008-02-17 10:50:00
  • Rules for deducting casualty losses

    Baltimore Sun - SC&H Group: A reverse mortgage is an interest-only loan that capitalizes the interest expense along with the principal during the life of the loan. That means that there are no loan interest payments at all until the note comes due. Since this type of ...
    2008-02-16 08:57:00
  • Banks ripe for more growth - Norris

    News.com.au - ... CBA interim results and almost unanimous expectations of more official interest rate ... The interim result - expected to be a healthy $70 million - will include only ... eye Australia 4. Credit meltdown turns toxic 5. Plundering super to pay the mortgage 6 ...
    2008-02-17 01:06:00
  • Need to know

    Times Online - Interest rates Minutes of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee’s February ... Alliance & Leicester , the mortgage lender, is expected to unveil a 29 per cent ... which would effectively end the battle with Sony’s Blu-ray discs after only a ...
    2008-02-17 04:48:00
  • What to look out for when switching loans

    News.com.au - Each time a person enters into a mortgage, even if it is only a simple refinancing, stamp duty and government statutory charges are paid,'' he says. "If borrowers are spooked into changing lenders every time there is an interest rate increase, the ...
    2008-02-17 03:51:00
  • UK's Brown faces grilling on bank nationalisation

    Guardian Unlimited - The mortgage lender has been put on the government's books, classified as around 90 billion pounds of public ... from global financial market turmoil and the government stressed on Sunday that nationalisation was only temporary and in the best interest ...
    2008-02-17 02:54:00
  • Britain to Nationalize Troubled Mortgage Lender

    New York Times - ... announced Sunday that it would bring Northern Rock , the struggling mortgage lender ... taxpayers’ outstanding loans to Northern Rock will repaid in full with interest, Mr ... Not only has he prided himself on his economic competence, but the move also ...
    2008-02-17 12:59:00
  • What to do if you're about to lose your home

    News.com.au - Switching your loan repayments to interest-only is one, and makes a big saving. On a $300,000 mortgage and based on an interest rate of eight per cent, repayments are usually $2315 but, if you switch to interest only, they fall to $2000. You can also ...
    2008-02-17 02:46:00
  • Statement by U.K. government on Northern Rock (MENAFN)

    Statement by U.K. government on Northern Rock
    2008-02-17 04:12:51
  • Chancellor's move leaves shareholders and staff in limbo (Guardian Unlimited)

    Shareholders and banks critical as unions voice job fears
    2008-02-17 04:22:28
  • Leading article: A chapter ends, but the Chancellor's woes continue (Independent)

    Queues of desperate savers waiting outside bank branches in the hope of rescuing their savings provided scenes whose like had not been seen in living memory. Five months later, the Government has finally accepted what had increasingly appeared inevitable. Northern Rock isto be nationalised forthwith. A Bill will be introduced in the Commons today to give the decision legislative effect.
    2008-02-17 04:26:53
  • Nine-route city rail plan won't help to boost property just yet (Bangkok Post)

    The nine-route city rail plan unveiled with flourish by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has created a stir, not least in a real-estate market that is looking for good news. But Visit Kunatharakul has one simple question: where is the money coming from?
    2008-02-17 05:27:50
  • Britain Nationalizes Northern Rock (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

    Northern Rock, which suffered the first run on a British bank in 140 years, will be nationalized after the government confirmed that it had failed to reach a private-sector deal.
    2008-02-17 05:33:55
  • Day of reckoning for subprime-hit banks (Stuff)

    It is confession season for the world's big banks as they finalise 2007 results and try to account for the full scale of the subprime-spawned credit upheaval that threatens to stall the global economy.
    2008-02-17 05:37:43
  • Card Sharks

    Forbes - Home Business Tech Markets Entrepreneurs Leadership Personal Finance ForbesLife Lists ... It's one thing for card companies to raise rates on customers who are behind in ... Then again, so were mortgage brokers. Fierce competition in the credit card business ...
    2008-02-14 03:54:00