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  • Countrywide stock up on Fed action, despite reports of FBI probe

    San Francisco Gate - The probe involves companies across the financial services industry, from mortgage lenders to investment banks that bundle home loans into securities sold to investors.
    2008-03-11 02:08:00

  • Caterpillar Sees $60 Billion Sales, Topping Estimate (Update2)

    Bloomberg - U.S. stock markets rose the most in five years today after the Federal Reserve said it will pump $200 billion into the financial system to shore up banks battered by mortgage-related losses.
    2008-03-11 03:55:00

  • Fed's Loan Rescue Sparks Big Stock Rally

    Baltimore Sun - They are hoping to bring relief where it is sorely needed: in the market for mortgage securities. Home loan financing has become much harder to get as nervous lenders have hunkered down.
    2008-03-11 02:08:00

  • Time to Buy a Home?

    Wall Street Journal - Your new home will probably mean not only a bigger mortgage, but also higher ongoing costs, including homeowner's insurance, property taxes and maintenance expenses.
    2008-03-11 06:11:00

  • Need to know

    Times Online - Mortgage lending The number of mortgages taken out by homebuyers fell by 19 per cent during January. Figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders showed that 50,300 buyers were granted a home loan, 34 per cent lower than in January last year. House ...
    2008-03-11 05:07:00

  • U.S. Stocks Advance Most in Five Years on Fed's Liquidity Plans

    Bloomberg - March 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rallied the most in five years after the Federal Reserve said it will pump $200 billion into the financial system to shore up banks battered by mortgage- related losses. Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp. and ...
    2008-03-11 03:12:00

  • Fed to Lend $200 Billion, Take on Mortgage Securities (Update8)

    Bloomberg - ... crisis of confidence in credit markets, will for the first time lend Treasuries in exchange for debt that includes mortgage ... Treasuries fell and the premiums investors demand for debt backed by home loans guaranteed by Fannie Mae retreated from ...
    2008-03-11 01:53:00

  • Fed action helps Fannie, Freddie

    CNBC - At the same time, as home prices have dropped and mortgage defaults have mounted, the companies have been forced to set aside billions of dollars to provide for soured loans and to sell special stock to raise capital.
    2008-03-11 02:15:00

  • FACTBOX-Fed actions to boost liquidity

    Reuters - It agreed to accept collateral including federal agency home mortgage-backed securities and highly rated private mortgage-backed securities. The move was one of a number of steps by the Fed and other central banks aimed at easing tight credit market ...
    2008-03-11 05:07:00

  • Real Estate Roundtable Commends Fed Action on Securities Lending ...

    Forbes - The new Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF) is a positive step that will help bring liquidity directly to where it is needed most -- home mortgage markets -- and will help make financial institutions more comfortable buying and holding such ...
    2008-03-11 03:33:00

  • Pace of Change Too Slow to Keep Entrepreneurs in France (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)

    Economists say France will have to make much deeper changes to its culture’s attitude toward capitalism if it intends to keep young entrepreneurs at home.
    2008-03-11 06:39:32

  • Police Work Campus Pot Case (KMGH 7 Denver)

    Pot and alcohol allegedly found on campus, not at a high school, but at a northern Colorado middle school.
    2008-03-11 06:45:57

  • Fiancé confirms local woman's link to call-girl ring (Kingston Daily Freeman)

    MILAN - Reporters gathered on Tuesday near the home of a local woman linked to the international prostitution ring at the center of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal. And though neighbors of Tania Hollander were tight-lipped, her fiancé confirmed she work for the call-girl agency.
    2008-03-11 06:50:27

  • Australian Consumer Confidence Plunges to 15-Year Low (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)

    March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Australian consumer confidence plunged to the lowest level in almost 15 years after the central bank raised interest rates and as share markets tumbled on concern global economic growth is slowing.
    2008-03-11 06:51:35

  • Fed throws a 'lifeline' to banks (The Press-Enterprise)

    CREDIT CRISIS: It hopes letting firms borrow up to $200 billion will encourage more lending.
    2008-03-11 06:54:49

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