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  • House passes mortgage prepayment ban

    MSN MoneyCentral - ... contentious reforms sought by consumer groups represented on the state's mortgage ... The bill's backers have said that one in five home loans issued in 2005 and 2006 ... bill also requires brokers to disclose if they're receiving a payment from a lender ...
    2008-02-21 03:10:00
  • Fears grow for over-indebted homeowners

    Reuters UK - The 125 percent mortgage market has shrunk to minute proportions with only one lender remaining, while the more standard 100 percent home loan is also under threat.
    2008-02-21 10:34:00
  • Four Ways to Hedge Against Falling Home Prices

    Street.Com - The extreme measure is to negotiate with a lender to see if it will allow you to short-sell your own house ... your monthly mortgage payments toward renting, assuming a 20% down payment and a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 5.7%. And you're saving on home ...
    2008-02-22 07:24:00
  • Mortgage Foreclosure Pain Prompts Hotline

    WBBM - Her home needed urgent repairs. A mortgage lender promised her relief, but she said she almost lost her home instead. Howell fought back tears as she said that she went to her mortgage lender seeking a reverse mortgage, but was instead given a ...
    2008-02-21 02:49:00
  • Financial Advice in order to Avoid Foreclosuring in Pa.

    KYW News radio - Nearly 25,000 Pennsylvania homeowners will face higher home payments in 2008 ... Homeowners with adjustable-rate mortgages should call their lender as soon as ... to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, including the Homeowners' Emergency Mortgage ...
    2008-02-23 05:00:00
  • Congress to grill Mozilo, O'Neal, Prince over pay

    CNN Money - NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Two high-profile former Wall Street CEOs and the head of the nation's largest home lender will testify next week before a congressional committee examining the link between executive pay and the mortgage crisis. A total of ...
    2008-02-22 11:56:00
  • Northern Rock Under Government Control

    Forbes - Northern Rock PLC was officially transferred to state ownership Friday, five months after the global credit crisis felled Britain's fifth largest mortgage lender and sparked the nation's first bank run in more than 150 years. A strategic review of ...
    2008-02-22 08:50:00
  • 'Underwater' home owners

    Boston Globe - More than 10 percent of American homeowners owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home, according to a new ... The borrowers can’t refinance because no new lender will write a loan for more than the home is worth.
    2008-02-22 01:43:00
  • Homeowners Losing Equity Lines

    Washington Post - Countrywide Financial , the nation's largest mortgage lender, suspended the home equity lines of 122,000 customers last month after reviewing their property values and outstanding loan balances.
    2008-02-23 07:58:00
  • Stamp duty soars (Channel 4)

    Home buyers have seen stamp duty soar by more than 60 per cent in five years, new figures show.
    2008-02-23 04:48:14
  • Georgia Mega Millions Ticket Worth $270M (KSAT San Antonio)

    The big winning ticket in the latest Mega Millions drawing is sold in Portal, Ga.
    2008-02-23 06:11:19
  • Robin Moore, 'Green Berets' Author, Dies (KSAT San Antonio)

    Best known for writing "The French Connection" and "The Green Berets," nonfiction author Robin Moore dies after a long illness.
    2008-02-23 06:28:42
  • More Credit Score Answers (Washington Post)

    Worrying about your credit score definitely can keep you up late at night. After one of myKiplinger'scredit score columns was mentioned on AOL Finance, I received 17 credit-score questions from readers between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. just that one night. It's no surprise that the topic is so popular -...
    2008-02-23 07:50:07
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    Gamasutra - ... that quite often by playing a game that they were not interested in they actually develop and interest ... I've seen legally bought games with appallingly slow load times, reduced frame rates and additional crashing bugs. Applying a no-cd crack not only ...
    2008-02-19 03:56:00
  • February 2008

    New York Daily News - In the 48th SD, the campaigns of Darrell Aubertine and Will Barclay traded barbs about conflicts of interest/inappropriately ... Barack Obama supporters to "increase the pressure" on the two members of Congress/superdelegates - Yvette Clarke (11th CD ...
    2008-02-22 05:51:00