Headline News Archive

2008

March

12

• Bancos exigen más para dar préstamos. El crédito que podía obtener el lunes quizás ya no esté a su alcance el martes, pues los banqueros y prestamistas en

11

• Countrywide probed for fraud. Federal authorities are investigating Countrywide Financial Corp. for securities fraud, according to newspaper reports. The FBI is in the early stages of an inquiry into

• 401(k)s tapped to save homes. Struggling to save their homes from foreclosure, more Americans are raiding their 401(k) retirement accounts to pay their bills — and getting slammed with taxes and

10

• Mortgage lenders see borrowers give up. On the front lines in the mortgage foreclosure crisis, lender and loan servicer Dennis Lauria says his deepest losses are from borrowers who owe more

• Cuídate de los rescates de 'foreclosure'. Si alguna vez te sentiste tentado por un anuncio que decía: "Podemos salvar su casa. Garantizado"; o quizás: "Tenemos contactos especiales en varios

09

• A reverse mortgage mess?. With $4 trillion of home equity wrapped up in the houses of America's senior citizens, it's no coincidence that the market for reverse-mortgage loans is finally

• Stimulus rebate is stimulus to complete taxes. You've heard it before, but this year the advice gains new import: Be sure to file. If you're hoping to get your rebate from the

• Use your 'foolish' refund wisely. For years I've been begging people not to use tax withholding as a forced savings tool. I understand the reasoning. Times are tight and people

• Costly where it counts. Stuff is cheap. Really. Yes, a gallon of gasoline is far more expensive than it was last year, but adjusted for inflation it costs about

08

• Veterans loans left out of stimulus plan. When Congress and the White House put together the $150 billion economic stimulus package, they raised the maximum mortgage limits in high-cost areas for Fannie Mae,

07

• El momento para comprar. Si está considerando comprar una propiedad o refinanciar, este es el mejor momento. ¿La razón? Aunque las reducciones en la tasa de Reserva Federal

06

• Health insurers get poor marks from hospitals. The nation's biggest health insurers lately have taken to rating hospitals on quality and cost, saying the information can help patients make better choices. Now,

• Report: Minorities hit by foreclosures. Subprime lenders that went out of business with the industry's collapse targeted minority neighborhoods, leaving them to struggle disproportionately with foreclosures and crumbling home values,

• Elevan límite de préstamos. El secretario del Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano (HUD), Alfonso Jackson, anunció ayer que el límite máximo de préstamos hipotecarios que

04

• En la mira la tasación de casas. Las firmas hipotecarias Fannie Mae y Freddie Mac, las mayores en Estados Unidos, se comprometieron ayer a cooperar con la procuraduría de Nueva York

03

• Activists target big lender in foreclosure fight. CLEVELAND — Folks on Humphrey Hill Drive were still waking up on the icy Saturday morning the shark hunters came to town. They rounded the suburban

• Número sin precedentes de casas vacías. Cuando Quinn Cuthbertson da una mirada a su vecindario de El Dorado Hills, California, ve filas de hogares vacíos y colinas yermas. La escuela

02

• Inside the mind of a debtor nation. As the director of a financial ministry at my church, I get an up-close and personal look at the spending habits of a lot of

• Simple ways to build up your savings. re you saving enough? There's about a 50% chance that the answer is no, according to a recent survey. This lack of savings has left a

• Reverse mortgages requires sound advice. Foreclosures are up, and it looks like they won't be coming down anytime soon. Troubled homeowners have a few options to stave off foreclosure, and

01

• Second mortgage lenders create roadblock to refinancing. Everybody wants to help keep people in their houses and out of financial stress and foreclosure, right? That's what the Bush administration says, and that's

February

26

• Aid on home loans sought. Over the opposition of the nation's lenders, Senate Democrats are seeking a change in the bankruptcy law that they say could keep hundreds of thousands

• Housing prices fall, foreclosures rise 57%. Prices of existing single-family homes slumped 8.9% in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, the largest decline in the 20-year history of a national home

24

• Wrong questions about the mortgage market. Daniel H. Mudd, chief executive of Fannie Mae, knows the feeling a physician gets when she attends a party and a guest wants a diagnosis

23

• New reasons to question mortgage costs. A seemingly arcane policy change by mortgage investor Freddie Mac sheds new light on issues of much broader concern for consumers: Do you really understand