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Apartment sales booming in Bangkok
Forbes - The economy is targeted to grow by 4.3 percent this year, among the lowest rates in Southeast Asia, and 4.6 percent in 2008 ... High oil prices and the fallout from the mortgage crisis in the United States could also have larger-than-expected effects ...
2007-12-01 09:41:00 -
'Market for lemons' rapidly developing
The Australian - ONE of the quickest ways to get a handle on how the US sub-prime mortgage crisis is ... areas of the credit market where people buy a form of insurance, and rising rates ... level of spread is more appropriate for a Baa3-rated entity (ie, Moody's lowest ...
2007-12-02 05:34:00 -
Don't get credit crunched by own record
Inside Bay Area - Sparked by a mortgage crisis caused by the housing bust, lenders are sorting out the "haves" and "have-nots" as the ... Fair Isaac says any score exceeding 700 on its scale is very good and will probably qualify you for the lowest financing rates.
2007-12-02 06:38:00 -
Lowest prices, lowest sales
Tacoma News Tribune - A market without qualified buyers for the lowest-priced homes impacts move-up ... Interest rates that have drifted a bit higher than during the recent boom years ... Adam Stein, president of the Washington Association of Mortgage Brokers, pointed out ...
2007-12-02 01:09:00 -
30-year mortgages sink to six-month low at 6.2 percent
Lansing State Journal - That was down from 6.24 percent last week and was the lowest rate since the week ended May 10. Other mortgage rates also fell. Rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, a popular choice for refinancing, slid to 5.83 percent, from 5.88 percent last week ...
2007-12-01 10:31:00 -
30-year mortgage rates plummet to 2-year low
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - WASHINGTON – Mortgage rates fell sharply last week with rates on 30-year mortgages dropping to the lowest level in more than two years. Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.1 percent ...
2007-12-02 02:49:00 -
MORE STORIES
Ann Arbor News - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration and the mortgage industry, trying to combat a massive wave of foreclosures, are ... 12,000 applicants for homeowner aid through a hurricane recovery program have not signed up for appointments to calculate ...
2007-11-30 03:52:00 -
Ambac is Effectively Insolvent & Will See More than $8 Billion of ...
Safe Haven - I don't consider the burst real estate bubble and the consequent mortgage debacle much of an outlier, for anyone could ... I calculate that Ambac will need to raise an additional $2 billion in order to continue as a going concern. In order to ...
2007-11-30 05:43:00 -
Ask a tax adviser to begin your wealth planning for end of '07
Nevada Appeal - ... is a concurrent tax system calculated by disallowing some of the exemptions, deductions and credits that you use to calculate ... Credits for child- and dependent-care expense, the elderly or the disabled, education, residential energy, mortgage interest ...
2007-12-02 03:53:00 -
Investigation reveals exploitation of vulnerable
Seattle Times - The federal government tracks mortgage data by categories such as race but doesn't track by age. Enter Justin Mayo, whose ... with name and address, we then searched voter registration and driver's license databases to find birth dates to calculate ...
2007-12-02 02:06:00 -
Whipping your finances into shape (The Standard-Times)
With the holiday spending season upon us, it's time to take a good hard look at how you can get your financial house in order. "Dialing for Dollars" is off the air. The Standard-Times is here to help.
2007-12-01 10:22:07 -
Ask a tax adviser to begin your wealth planning for end of '07 (Nevada Appeal)
This article aims to highlight certain strategies you may or may not be aware of, provide updates on any relevant changes that came into effect in 2007, and remind you about crucial deadlines and "to-dos."
2007-12-02 04:12:52 -
Congress races deadline to fix AMT (The Record)
A federal tax originally designed to prevent the super-rich from avoiding taxes altogether continues to dun more and more of North Jersey, including thousands of families earning less than $100,000.
2007-12-02 01:25:41 -
Investigation reveals exploitation of vulnerable (Seattle Times)
Today's story, "The Fleecing of Frances Taylor," should move you to wonder about the exploitation of people when they are most vulnerable...
2007-12-02 12:42:34 -
Good credit? Verifiable income? Then buy the best holiday present ever: your first home (Asheville Citizen-Times)
Every day I feel like Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day," the film where every day is exactly the same: I get up and turn on the radio or TV, and I hear the same stories about the housing and mortgage crises.
2007-12-01 09:28:12