Headline News Archive

2009

March

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  • Countrywide's 'special' loan program. Executives at Countrywide Financial, one of the biggest names of the housing boom, routinely violated internal company policies to provide below-market rates on home loans
  • How will the Fed's actions affect you?. The Federal Reserve yesterday renewed its commitment to encouraging consumer lending by announcing steps aimed at helping push down interest rates. Here are answers to
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  • Mortgage fraud up as credit tightens. Mortgage fraud jumped by 26 percent last year even though fewer loans were issued nationwide, and Maryland ranked among the top five states with the most
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  • Tax law changes for 2008 tax year. Economic stimulus payments are not taxable, and they are not reported on 2008 tax returns. However, the stimulus payment does affect whether a taxpayer can claim
  • Who is getting the low mortgage rates?. So who's actually getting some? I mean those beautiful fixed-rate mortgages advertised at 5.5 percent or less. Maybe, in a virtual world, an avatar can drop
  • Moneybloggers share the wealth. It's often said that talking about money is the last taboo. But our cash coyness appears to be disappearing along with the growth of personal
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  • More mortgages eligible for financing. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have published the rules governing their upcoming mass refinancing campaigns, and they're more favorable for borrowers than indicated at first
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  • Despite housing help, foreclosures rose. Foreclosure filings in February jumped nearly 6% from January, despite foreclosure moratoriums and prevention programs around the country, according to a report out Thursday. Foreclosure filings
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  • Oversight of bank bailouts criticized. Congressional investigators are criticizing the Obama administration for failing to police deals in which banks participating in the $700 billion federal bailout lent billions of dollars
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  • Some FHA mortgages go bad from get-go. The last time the housing market was this bad, Congress set up the Federal Housing Administration to insure Depression-era mortgages that lenders wouldn't otherwise make.
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  • Restrict wealthy homeowner tax perks?. The cluster of special federal tax benefits and subsidies for homeowners has long seemed politically untouchable. Those include deductions for mortgage interest, local property taxes
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  • Siete días para cuidar tu dinero. La Semana de Protección al Consumidor dura poco, pero te convierte en un consumidor más precavido durante todo el año. De acuerdo
 

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