Mortgage and Financial News From 2008-3-24 Page 5
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Thailand: Policy-makers Cannot Ignore Lessons Of US Crisis (Sin Chew Jit Poh)
BANGKOK, THAILAND: Finance Minister Surapong Suebwonglee and other policy-makers have a great opportunity to learn from the turbulence engulfing the US and global financial markets.
2008-03-23 10:23:46 -
Wreckonomics Believes This Economic Storm Will Have Many Eyes (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Wreckonomics has predicted that anyone who thinks the latest Fed Action in the wake of the Bear Stearns collapse will help to stem the incoming perfect storm should think again.
2008-03-24 12:01:00 -
Robins Federal Credit Union elects board (Macon Telegraph)
Robins Federal Credit Union has elected its 2008 board of directors. They include: Edward C. Hilliard, chairman; James A. Kidd, vice chairman; Donald R. Hanson, treasurer; and Dr. Michael D. Parker, secretary.
2008-03-24 12:13:00 -
Lenders bypassed safeguards (The News Journal)
They could see the meltdown coming.
2008-03-24 01:01:15 -
Home Equity Loans Drying Up For Some (NBC 5 Chicago)
Some homeowners are finding that even with great credit and 20 percent or more home equity, getting a line of credit on that equity can be difficult or impossible.
2008-03-24 04:45:43 -
The Opening Bell: Blubbering Bear (Columbia Journalism Review)
NYT’s scoop on JPMorgan’s new offer; all that costly regulation!; the Japanese talk smack; etc.
2008-03-24 05:03:28 -
Risk Management Service provides mortgage loan fraud alerts. (ThomasNet)
MARI Loan Fraud Alert Service (LFAS) is mortgage industry-contributed loan process database that enables lenders and investors to identify potential application risk and patterns of fraud and hidden relationships among transaction parties. It can help reduce mortgage fraud by comparing lender's loan-level data, which includes borrower, collateral, and professional information, against ...
2008-03-24 05:49:40 -
Floyd Irons to be sentenced today (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
-- Floyd Irons is scheduled to be sentenced today in federal court for mail and wire fraud in a real estate scheme prosecutors said was meant to kick back thousands of dollars to Irons and a partner.
2008-03-24 06:10:25 -
Living through it (Berkshire Eagle)
A car accident. A job loss. A health problem. A legal mess. A sluggish real estate market. Such are the roots of foreclosure troubles, which are creeping upward in the Berkshires as subprime loans go bad or as borrowers run into other money troubles.
2008-03-24 04:36:32 -
ShoreTel Distributed Unified Communications Solution Helps Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors Manage a Rapidly Changing ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
ShoreTel®, Inc. , a leading provider of Pure IP Unified Communications solutions, today announced that Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors has standardized on a ShoreTel distributed unified communications solution for all new offices and system replacements.
2008-03-24 04:45:00 -
Living through it (Berkshire Eagle)
Sunday, March 23 A car accident. A job loss. A health problem. A legal mess.
2008-03-24 04:55:46 -
Mutual Funds Abandon Stock Market as Volatility Jumps (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- Mutual funds are selling stocks and hoarding cash just as trading surges to a record and prices grow more volatile than at any time since the Great Depression.
2008-03-24 05:02:16 -
Ten ways to slice your spending (The Star-Ledger)
Your budget may be reeling from gyrations in the stock market, falling prices in the housing market, rising prices in the supermarket and cost explosions at the gas pump.
2008-03-24 05:11:08 -
Canadian Western Eschews Subprime Market to Beat Banking Rivals (Bloomberg.com)
March 24 (Bloomberg) -- The top-performing North American bank stock of the past five years has 35 branches, and is led by a chief executive officer who has no voice mail and says he isn't smart enough to understand complex debt investments.
2008-03-24 05:18:19 -
Reuters Business Summary (Reuters via Yahoo! Singapore News)
JPMorgan in talks to raise Bear Stearns bid
2008-03-24 05:40:23