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  • Rates on 30-year mortgages edge up after 3 weeks of declines

    NWITimes.com - Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.62 percent. That was up from 6.59 percent last week, which had been the lowest level since early June. This week's rate is the highest since 30-year ...
    2007-08-17 08:55:00
  • Even after Fed move, credit storm lingers

    MSN MoneyCentral - THE MORTGAGE WORLD'S 'KATRINA' For the first time since the September 11, 2001 attacks crippled the U.S. financial ... The Bank of Japan, which meets on Thursday, is unlikely to raise interest rates from the lowest level of any industrialized ...
    2007-08-19 09:14:00
  • Bank of Japan likely to leave rates on hold at next policy meeting - report (Sharewatch)

    TOKYO - The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is likely to leave interest rates on hold when it holds a policy meeting next week because of continued uncertainty about the US economy, Jiji Press agency reported late Friday, citing unnamed sources close to the BoJ's Policy Board.
    2007-08-19 08:10:08
  • (AFX UK Focus) 2007-08-19 09:18 GMT: Bank of Japan likely to leave rates on hold at next policy meeting - report (Interactive Investor)

    Bank of Japan likely to leave rates on hold at next policy meeting - report
    2007-08-19 08:50:48
  • The Latest Mortgage News

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    2007-08-17 10:14:00
  • Pay Off Your Student Loans the Smart Way (Benton Evening News)

    (ARA) - Your education is the key to launching your future. After you enter the professional world you leave the college years behind to focus on your career goals. But one thing most people can't leave behind are student loans.
    2007-08-19 09:23:17
  • More subprime ripples

    Asia Times - The current crisis began as subprime-mortgage defaults started to spiral as a result of higher interest rates and the bursting of the US housing bubble ...
    2007-08-16 12:54:00
  • Summer success

    New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung - I'm looking at bank interest rates and CD accounts,” he said. For Dad, Anthony Chalupa, working with his boys has brought benefits to his business. “The Lord has been very faithful in my endeavor to be self-employed, and I believe a good part ...
    2007-08-19 02:55:00
  • Bernanke uses his force

    Fort Worth Star-Telegram - The Fed has been reluctant to cut interest rates in response to plunging stock prices. Friday's cut in the discount rate was the Fed's first such action between regularly scheduled meetings since right after 9-11. Economists said the unusual step was ...
    2007-08-19 12:15:00
  • Multiple choice can be tricky

    Times Online - The high street banks, for their part, tempt students with interest-free cash, as well as sweeteners, such as railcards, web ... HSBC and NatWest both offer a good all-rounder for students with two of the lowest rates for unauthorised overdrafts.” ...
    2007-08-18 12:59:00
  • Banks fight to calm markets

    Sunday Business Post - By Friday morning, it was a bit calmer after Thursday’s storm, and then the US Federal Reserve Board, in an extraordinary intervention, cut one of its key interest rates. This was greeted as good news in the markets and sent prices soaring. Like ...
    2007-08-19 05:30:00
  • Today's Law: "Kiddie Tax"

    WKYC - The Kiddie Tax was developed to inhibit people from giving gifts to children in order to shift the income tax rates. For example, if Mom and Dad buy a CD and give it to their minor child, the interest taxed would be less than if they were to keep it ...
    2007-08-19 02:48:00
  • Stocks Jump After Discount Rate Cut

    San Francisco Examiner - Many strategists believe the market won't settle down until the Fed lowers the rate, which is the interest banks charge each ... Traders who bet on how the Fed might alter rates were pricing in 100 percent chance that the central bank will lower the ...
    2007-08-19 06:44:00
  • The party's over

    Times Online - Four years ago the Fed was also cutting interest rates, reducing them to a 50-year low of 1%. Banks were almost giving money away. Many borrowers were happy to take it, particularly the “sub-prime” loans with dodgy credit histories. America’s ...
    2007-08-19 01:33:00
  • Swallows in the air

    Times Online - Two months later it cut interest rates by a quarter of a point, the first in a series, in response to the financial-market crisis – Long Term Capital Management and all that – then raging. The MPC’s vote for a cut was 7-2, by the way, with the ...
    2007-08-19 07:31:00