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• Subprime Lenders Get Big Accounting Break at SEC: Jonathan Weil

  Bloomberg - ... in bulk to off-balance-sheet trusts -- known as qualified special purpose entities, or QSPEs -- which then repackaged the loan pools into mortgage-backed securities. The trusts are supposed to be beyond the lenders' control. And if the companies ...
  2008-01-29 09:14:00

• More Americans face losing homes

  BBC Business - Foreclosure is the legal process taken by mortgage companies when homeowners fail to keep up their loan repayments. Separately, a Standard & Poor's said home prices fell 7.7% in the year to the September to November quarter. That report refers to ...
  2008-01-29 01:57:00

• Kill the Competition - Radical UK banking powers...FBI's sub-prime ...

  Times Online - The FBI has opened criminal inquiries into 14 companies as part of an investigation of the subprime-mortgage crisis. The Guardian : More than a million homeowners could be at risk of serious financial difficulty and possibly losing their homes in an ...
  2008-01-29 10:54:00

• FBI says 14 companies under investigation for possible fraud in ...

  CNBC - Agency officials did not identify the companies under investigation but said the wide-ranging probe, which began in spring 2007, is ongoing and involves companies across the industry, from mortgage lenders to financial firms that bundle home loans ...
  2008-01-29 02:40:00

• FBI probe into subprime lenders

  Channel 4 News - The FBI is investigating 14 mortgage companies suspected of possible fraud or insider trading violations in connection with loans made to risky borrowers, and related investments. Agency officials did not identify the companies under investigation ...
  2008-01-29 10:18:00

• Aborigines to get apology

  CNN - CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia will issue its first formal apology to the country's indigenous people on ... Aborigines to get apology 6 Crocodile a golf course hazard 7 India to scatter Gandhi's ashes 8 FBI probing 14 mortgage companies 9 Afghan ...
  2008-01-29 10:33:00

• City presses for upkeep of foreclosed properties

  Boston Globe - The City of Boston is pressuring mortgage companies to maintain the foreclosed, vacant, and often deteriorating homes that dot the city's neighborhoods in growing numbers. City Councilor Robert Consalvo plans to introduce an ordinance today that ...
  2008-01-29 09:43:00

• Microsoft oversight extended two years - San Francisco Chronicle

  Microsoft oversight extended two yearsSan Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 1 hour agoThe companies have also approached Google Inc. and Best Buy Inc. about financing, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Sprint has started rolling out ...
  2008-01-29 10:11:36

• Tax Collections Up Slightly So Far This Year - Tyler Morning Telegraph

  Tax Collections Up Slightly So Far This YearTyler Morning Telegraph, TX - 1 hour agoProperty owners (whose mortgage companies don't escrow their taxes) who have not yet received a tax statement should contact the tax office. ...
  2008-01-29 10:14:30

• Banks will likely see most benefit from recent Fed cut - EastOregonian.info (subscription)

  Banks will likely see most benefit from recent Fed cutEastOregonian.info (subscription), OR - 51 minutes agoCiting an axiom mortgage lenders use, Johnson said good news for the stock market is bad news for mortgage rates and bad news for the stock market is good ...
  2008-01-29 10:26:50

• President Clinton tells crowd Hillary will bring needed change - Akron Beacon Journal

  President Clinton tells crowd Hillary will bring needed changeAkron Beacon Journal, OH - 40 minutes agoHe said the government would negotiate with the mortgage companies to make up their lost revenue — an expense that he estimated at $30 billion, ...
  2008-01-29 10:37:45

• PRESS DIGEST - New York Times business news - Jan 30 - Reuters

  PRESS DIGEST - New York Times business news - Jan 30Reuters - 30 minutes agoThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has opened criminal inquiries into 14 companies as part of a wide-ranging investigation of the troubled mortgage ...
  2008-01-29 10:48:14

• Regions announces sweepstakes winners - Searcy Daily Citizen

  Regions announces sweepstakes winnersSearcy Daily Citizen, AR - 29 minutes agoRegions Financial Corporation is a member of the S&P 100 Index and Forbes Magazine's “Platinum 400” list of America's best big companies. ...
  2008-01-29 10:48:38

• ABN Amro, Countrywide Will Shun Kangaroo Bond Market, S&P Says - Bloomberg

  ABN Amro, Countrywide Will Shun Kangaroo Bond Market, S&P SaysBloomberg - 24 minutes agoCountrywide, the mortgage lender that Bank of America Corp. plans to buy, collapsed after rising defaults on mortgages caused aA$1.2 billion third-quarter ...
  2008-01-29 10:53:31

• State of the Union: A different reality - PensacolaNewsJournal.com

  State of the Union: A different realityPensacolaNewsJournal.com, FL - 15 minutes agoPresident Bush's take on the subprime mortgage mess — he didn't name it directly — is that "we must trust Americans with the responsibility of homeownership ...
  2008-01-29 11:03:02

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