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Housing Starts
Sputter -
Forbes.com -
- Desmond,
07.17.08, 10:50
AM ET A jump in
American housing
start numbers in
June sounded too
good to be
true... and it
was.
Multi-family
housing starts
in New York City
fueled a spike
in June of the
number of
building permits
and overall
housing
starts,...
Fitch cuts
Fannie preferred
shares, may cut
Freddie -
Reuters - -
NEW YORK, July
17 (Reuters) -
Fitch Ratings on
Thursday cut
Fannie Mae's (FNM.N:
Quote, Profile,
Research, Stock
Buzz) preferred
stock ratings
and said it may
cut them again
and also may
downgrade
Freddie Mac's
preferreds due
to uncertainties
of how U.S...
Feds fight the
fear factor -
CNN - -
Washington is
tying itself in
knots trying to
shore up
confidence in
the financial
sector. In just
the past week,
officials have
moved to curtail
short-selling,
promised a crack
down on market
rumor mongers
and cooked up a
rescue plan for
beleaguered m...
Fed: Fannie,
Freddie in no
danger of
failing - CNN
- - rates to
fend off higher
prices would
deal a setback
to the fragile
economy and the
already crippled
housing market.
Against that
background, most
economists
predict Bernanke
and his
colleagues will
leave rates
alone when it
meets next on
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Market News
DBA who stole
consumer data
gets 57 months
in prison, $4M
bill -
Computerworld
- -
(Computerworld)
A former
database
administrator at
Certegy Check
Services Inc.
who admitted
last year that
he stole the
personal data of
about 8.5
million
consumers and
sold the
information to
data brokers has
been sentenced
to 57 months in
prison by a...
Mortgage
Applications
Continue to
Increase for a
3-Week Rally -
RIS Media -
- The Mortgage
Bankers
Association
(MBA) released
its Weekly
Mortgage
Applications
Survey for the
week ending July
11, 2008. The
Market Composite
Index, a measure
of mortgage loan
application
volume, was
522.2, an
increase of 1.7%
on a seasonally
adjusted.. |
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Technology News
PropertyMaps.com
Names New CEO -
RIS Media -
- the content
wirelessly to
Internet-enabled
phones, PDAs,
GPS-enabled and
other mobile
devices.
Visitors are
also able to
access
foreclosure or
pre-foreclosure
homes on
PropertyMaps.com,
through a
partnership with
RealtyTrac. For
more
information,
visit |
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The Upside of a
Downturn -
Buyers Get More
House for Their
Money - RIS
Media - -
(MCT)-Mark and
Caryn Stansfield
loved the Wayne
split-level with
views of Pines
Lake, New Jersey
when they first
saw it last
summer. But at
$570,000, it was
out of their
price range.
Then the asking
price was cut to
$499,900. The
Stansfields, who
had be...
FBI
investigating
fraud at failed
IndyMac - MSNBC
- - WASHINGTON -
Now-defunct
IndyMac Bancorp
Inc. is under
investigation by
the FBI for
possible fraud
in connection
with home loans
made to risky
borrowers, The
Associated Press
has learned. It
was not
immediately
clear how long
the FBI's probe
of the ba...
Examine the
Demographics
Determining
Homeownership in
the US -
Earthtimes.org
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Wire) Research
and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a00c21/americans_and_thei)
has annou...
U.S housing
starts and
permits up in
June - UPI -
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WASHINGTON, July
17 (UPI) --
Privately owned
housing starts
jumped 9.1
percent in the
United States in
June, the U.S.
Commerce
Department
reported
Thursday. The
season... |
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