Nov
AP - Mortgage rates dropped for a second straight week, reflecting the impact the weakening economy is having on financial markets.
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Nov
AFP - Fresh data showed the rich world plunging into recession on Thursday as the United States warned that an upcoming crisis summit was just the start of a tough reform cycle for the world finance system.
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AP - Applications for unemployment benefits soared to the highest level since just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks while the trade deficit shrank more than expected as demand for imports plunged, further evidence of the struggling U.S. economy.
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Reuters - Franklin Bank Corp , the lender founded by mortgage securities pioneer Lewis Ranieri, filed for bankruptcy protection and plans to liquidate, after federal regulators seized its banking unit.
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Nov
BusinessWeek Online - Listening to Hank Paulson’s Nov. 12 speech, one is impressed both by his flexibility and a barely controlled underlying sense of panic. In a few short weeks, the Treasury Secretary has gone from a bailout plan focused solely on using $700 billion to buy up mortgage-backed securities to one that may not spend any money at all on mortgage-backed securities. Instead, as he announced Wednesday, much of the remaining money will be used to support consumer loan markets that have frozen up — credit-card debt, student loans, and auto loans. …
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Nov
AFP - Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, entered recession Thursday amid more heavy falls on stock markets after the US scrapped plans to buy up toxic mortgage assets at the heart of the financial crisis.
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Nov
AP - While the Bush administration shifts course on its $700 billion rescue plan, Congress is examining whether even bigger changes should be made in the program in light of the deteriorating economy and soaring mortgage foreclosures.
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Nov
AFP - The US government abandoned plans to buy up the toxic mortgage assets at the heart of the global financial crisis, a reversal that helped send ailing world markets spiralling even lower.
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Nov
Reuters - Federal criminal probes into mortgage lending will likely produce many indictments under Barack Obama’s presidency, legal experts said on Wednesday.
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Nov
Reuters - Stocks sank on Wednesday for the third day after the United States backed away from using its $700 billion bailout to mop up sour mortgages and added to uncertainty about how the government plans to revive bank lending.
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