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  • The best way to safeguard money for a home purchase, and other answers to your financial questions (The Christian Science Monitor)

    Do you have financial questions? Send them to us at: work@csps.com
    2008-03-16 11:19:18
  • Wait, Weren’t These the Safer Bets? (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    Unlike such ill-starred peers as Countrywide Credit or Ameriquest, Thornburg Mortgage was supposed to have been a different kind of home loan company.
    2008-03-16 11:40:03
  • Investors await Bear report, Fed meeting (Miami Herald)

    Wall Street is facing a paradox of sorts right now as the damage from the credit crisis continues - the more investors find out about the problems caused by billions of dollars in failed mortgages and investments, the more unknowns seem to crop up. The Street is hoping that this week, the Federal Reserve and the wounded Bear Stearns Cos. provide more answers than new, baffling questions.
    2008-03-16 11:41:32
  • How to Recession-Proof Your Career

    Wall Street Journal - Industries affected by the recent mortgage crisis and home-building downturn, such as real estate, construction, banking and ... There are certain companies that are counter to their cycles and making a fortune because they're shorting the market," she ...
    2008-03-15 09:09:00
  • Some get boost from slump in economy

    Baltimore Sun - And business advisers such as Baltimore's FTI Consulting Corp., which helps troubled companies reinvent themselves, are ... Foreclosures are increasing nationwide as homeowners fail to keep up with ballooning mortgage payments, many of which have ...
    2008-03-14 10:18:00
  • Latest News

    dBusinessNews.com - Power and Associates 2007 Primary Mortgage Origination Study. * Wachovia's online banking was ranked No. 1 in ... WB ) is one of the nation's largest diversified financial services companies, with assets of $782.9 billion and market ...
    2008-03-15 02:43:00
  • Auspicious Timing for These IPOs?

    Wall Street Journal - Four real-estate investment funds are planning initial public offerings that are a play on the market for mortgage-backed securities -- just as sentiment toward those instruments is souring. All four companies plan to invest in government-backed or ...
    2008-03-15 03:33:00
  • London Real Estate

    CNBC - Rep. Frank's Mortgage Plan ... Positioning your portfolio ahead of the Fed, with Jim Huguet, Great Companies, Inc.; Matthew McCall, Penn Financial Group and ...
    2008-03-14 11:15:00
  • The BusinessWeek 50

    BusinessWeek - But a host of companies—from Apple to Staples—have scored big by using technology, design, or clever marketing to build ... No Credit Report or Processing Fees. Reverse Mortgage Comparisons   Compare all reverse lenders. Apples to apples lender ...
    2008-03-15 06:18:00
  • Brent Raby from The City State of Toronto, writes: Immigration should ...

    Globe and Mail - Andrew E from Canada writes: The Star reports that the men involved in the shooting were known by other residents to carry handguns. That being the case, it should be easy for police to identify the make and calibre of the handguns involved ...
    2008-03-14 05:53:00
  • Bear Stearns gets emergency funds

    BBC Business - Bear Stearns is Wall Street's fifth largest investment bank, and has been at the centre of the US mortgage debt crisis. ... The subsequent freezing-up of the credit markets created problems for a number of companies which relied on borrowing money ...
    2008-03-13 05:54:00
  • Nomura-led bid wins Ashikaga auction

    Financial Times - The Ashikaga deal comes as Nomura is suffering from losses on investments in the US subprime mortgage market and a downturn ... It has made about 20 deals in Japanese companies, including buy-outs of Millennium Retailing, the operator of the Sogo and ...
    2008-03-13 05:54:00
  • Run On The Bear?

    Forbes - In this morning's statement, the companies said JPMorgan is working with Bear Stearns on "strategic alternatives," but ... The program was to allow the dealers to turn in hard-to-sell mortgage securities in return for easy-to-sell Treasury bonds.
    2008-03-13 05:54:00
  • David Cameron interview transcript

    BBC News - ... most people think right, I?ll spend a little bit cos I?m better off, but I?ll put some aside to help pay down the mortgage ... Waitrose, Morrisons, whoever else are irresponsible over the way they lay out their aisles and that the Media Companies are ...
    2008-03-16 07:28:00
  • Living on the edge

    Detroit Free Press - She worked for two air freight companies and started working at Ziebart about seven years ago. ... A few days ago, a relative gave George and Darlene money to pay two of the three back mortgage payments.
    2008-03-16 07:06:00