Headline News Archive

2008

December

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  • A guide for the newly poor. If you're eating three meals today and have a roof over your head, you've probably never heard of the 211 service. It's like 411 or 911, except you
  • Click here to save time, money, energy. Here's a selected list of Kiplinger's best Web sites for 2008. Customer service: GetHuman.com. Chop down the phone tree. This site lists customer-service numbers for
  • Burglaries may increase during downturn. They're holiday rituals of the Grinchy sort, annual warnings from local police telling us how to protect ourselves from burglary and theft during the dark,
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  • Treasury weighs action on mortgage rates. The Treasury Department is strongly considering a plan to intervene directly in the mortgage industry to dramatically force down rates and stimulate the moribund housing
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November

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  • Mortgage lenders become proactive. A YEAR ago, most home foreclosures were concentrated in depressed manufacturing areas of the Midwest and the speculative real estate zones of Florida, Arizona and
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  • Fed's role in crisis is giant, if opaque. Wall Street analysts, congressional overseers and the media have parsed every detail of the Treasury Department's financial rescue program - $250 billion and counting. Largely outside
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  • The fine print of the foreclosure fight. You may have read about the latest public and private efforts to help financially distressed homeowners cope with their mortgage payments. But you might not
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  • Bay Area median price homes tumbles 41% though sales reach high (Chinese). 【明報專訊】經濟前景雖然持續不明朗,但無阻買家在三藩市灣區搶購銀主盤的熱情,推動10月的成交數字較去年急升,但受到銀主盤割價求售拖累下,灣區9縣的房屋中位價仍較去年急瀉41%。 據MDA DataQuick最新發表的房地產報告指出,灣區9縣在10月錄得的中位價,已由去年同月的631,000元下滑至375,000元,跌幅驚人。
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  • FHA relaxes rules for homeowners. The Federal Housing Administration yesterday said that after less than two months it is relaxing terms of a program designed to help troubled mortgage borrowers
  • Treasury's Bailouts Are Getting Us Chumped. I usually don't enjoy watching congressional hearings. They are often packed with blustering, long-winded, self-serving speeches that are nap-inducing. But a recent hearing before the
  • Fannie y Freddie suspendieron embargos. Los organismos estadounidenses de refinanciamiento hipotecario Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac anunciaron el jueves la suspensión hasta el 9 de enero de los embargos de
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  • Americans are trying to save. Spendthrift (spend' thrift') n. a person who spends money carelessly; squanderer. Frugal (froo' gel) adj. not wasteful; not spending freely; thrifty. As economic news has
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